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Perkins, D. N.; Salomon, Gavriel – Educational Leadership, 1988
Students often fail to apply knowledge and skills learned in one context to other situations. Although the implicit assumption in educational practice has been that transfer takes care of itself, a knowledge of the mechanisms of transfer can enable educators to help their students integrate general and local knowledge. (TE)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization

Perkins, D. N. – Educational Leadership, 1988
A response to the opinion by John Baer that teaching thinking puts able thinkers at risk. The chances are greater that educators may retreat from teaching thinking if they are uncertain about the importance and possibility thereof than that able students will be harmed by efforts to help them. (Author/TE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies
Salomon, Gavriel; Perkins, D. N. – 1985
Arguing that the most widespread argument in favor of the teaching of programming concerns its possible impact on generalizable cognitive skills, this paper addresses the "how" of transfer. The outlines of a theory of the mechanisms of transfer are presented, the theory is used to examine the contrasts between certain studies that did…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Learning Processes, Literature Reviews, Problem Solving

Perkins, D. N.; And Others – 1985
Under normal instructional circumstances, some youngsters learn programming in BASIC or LOGO better than others. Clinical investigations of novice programmers suggest that this happens in part because different students bring different patterns of learning to the programming context. Many students disengage from the task whenever trouble occurs,…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Style, Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education