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Smith, Patricia L.; Wedman, John F. – 1988
This study compared the effects of an elaborated unit of instruction and a hierarchical unit on students' online processing activities, efficiency of encoding new information, and facility in solving problems. Participants were six education graduate students rated as novices on the to-be-learned content--a unit on the principles of photography.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Encoding (Psychology), Graduate Students
Derry, Sharon; And Others – 1993
This study examined ways in which two independent variables, peer collaboration and the use of a specific tool (the TAPS interface), work together and individually to shape students' problem-solving processes. More specifically, the researchers were interested in determining how collaboration and TAPS use cause metacognitive processes to differ…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction