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Learning Experience as Transaction: A Framework for Instructional Design
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Parrish, Patrick E.; Wilson, Brent G.; Dunlap, Joanna C. – Educational Technology, 2011
This article presents a framework for understanding learning experience as an object for instructional design--as an object for design as well as research and understanding. Compared to traditional behavioral objectives or discrete cognitive skills, the object of experience is more holistic, requiring simultaneous attention to cognition, behavior,…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Behavioral Objectives, Transformative Learning, Learning Processes
Technology Use as Transformative Pedagogy: Using Video Editing Technology to Learn about Teaching
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Macy, Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Within the paradigm of Sociocultural Theory, and using Activity Theory as a data-gathering and management tool, this microgenetic case study examined the processes--the growth, change, and development--engaged in by student-teachers in a foreign language education program as they worked together to complete an activity. The activity involved…
Descriptors: Evidence, Video Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
The Interaction of Learner Aptitude with Types of Questions Accompanying a Written Lesson on Logical Implications.
Threadgill, Judith – 1979
Since research on the effect of questions adjunct to written materials has usually ignored learner aptitudes, this study was designed to explore the interaction of a verbal aptitude measure (vocabulary ability) with two types of questions following a prose selection on logical implications. Two hundred fifty-two tenth-grade students were randomly…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Inducement of Metacognitive Learning Strategies: Task Knowledge, Instructions, and Training.
Gilbert, Laurence C. – 1986
Fifty-four high aptitude undergraduates and 46 moderate-to-low aptitude undergraduates were divided into four treatment groups and were given a pretest during which they learned and recalled a map of a small town in five successive trials. Two weeks later, each group was given a different treatment with a varying degree of explicitness of…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Advance Organizers, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Processes
Changing an Adult Learning Environment as Viewed from a Social Learning Perspective
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da Costa, Jose L. – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
This article reports observations of teachers' collaboration within an inner city elementary school located in western Canada. The study traces the school's development as a learning organization, focusing on the interplay between individual--the level at which learning and action actually occur--and social learning--a conceptual tool for…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
Individual Differences in Basic Skills Achievement.
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Thomas, John W. – 1978
Current research and though regarding the relationship of individual difference (ID) factors to achievement in the basic skills is reviewed. Four major categories and nine subcategories of ID factors are defined and serve as the framework for the review: status factors (age, sex, and race, ethnic group, and socioeconomic status); intelligence…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Basic Skills