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Schwartz, Steven; And Others – 1987
This study examined the effectiveness of a metacourse consisting of eight lessons interspersed over a semester-long beginning course in BASIC and aimed at providing mental models, problem-solving strategies, key concepts, and other heuristic structures. The experimental group consisted of 6 teachers who taught 9 classes of a total of 132 high…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Error Patterns, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness
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Armstrong, Anne-Marie – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1989
Discusses self-regulation, learning to learn, and adaptive problem solving, and describes study of third, fifth, and eighth graders. The study investigated whether providing a model of self-regulating skills via teaching a computer to solve problems would increase the number tasks completed, and decrease the error and trial rate. (11 references)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Error Patterns, Grade 3