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WITTROCK, M.C. – 1964
A REVIEW OF THEORY AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON "THE LEARNING BY DISCOVERY HYPOTHESIS," AND RELATED LITERATURE ON CONCEPT-LEARNING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING, WAS PREPARED FOR A CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK CITY, 1965. RECENT CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES IN THE SUBJECT AREA WERE DESCRIBED. ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO IDENTIFY INDEPENDENT AND DEPENDENT VARIABLES AND…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Conferences
Peer reviewedSwartz, Ronald – High School Journal, 1976
A leisurely approach to problem solving was taken since it was considered important to understand the problem of studying mistakes before educators discuss and use solutions to problems. Concrete suggestions on how to incorporate the study of mistakes into an educational program were provided. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Discovery Processes, Educational Attitudes
Download full textDavis, Robert B.
Reported is the everyday teaching and curriculum planning activities of the Madison Project, operated by teachers and mathematicians. Two kinds of informal explanatory experiences are provided in order to involve students in the discovery of significant mathematical concepts--experiences where children do something and experiences where a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Educational Objectives
Otto, Robert – 1979
Evaluations of the relationship of curriculum programs to Jean Piaget's developmental psychology theory are reviewed. These programs include Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS), Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), Family of Man (FOM), and Social Encounter and Research Curriculum for Humanization (SEARCH). Piagetian based research results are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development
Henry, George H. – The English Journal, 1965
Opting for curriculum design in the teaching of English which is based on recent psychological theory and current thought in logic, the author contrasts the more traditional chronological presentation with "process and structure" techniques. The weaknesses inherent in the idea of a curriculum patterned on the notion of having to "cover ground" in…
Descriptors: Colleges, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Curriculum Development
Gross, Richard E., Ed.; Muessig, Raymond H., Ed. – 1971
The plea of this bulletin, the second and full revision of The Problems Approach and the Social Studies copyrighted in 1955 and 1960, is for teachers to do more with the reflective method in their classrooms. It draws upon the latest and most pertinent insights distilled from research, theory, and practice associated with reflective thinking;…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Concept Teaching
