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Merrill, Paul F. – 1974
A review is presented of the role of algorithms in learning and instruction. The paper first describes an algorithm as a procedure guaranteed to produce a correct result and lists its features as: 1) having a reasonably finite number of unambiguously defined operations; 2) having zero or more inputs from a specified domain; 3) having outputs with…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Instruction