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Download full textWicker, Frank W.; And Others – 1977
This research was based on the assumption that the teaching of broadly generalizable cognitive skills should be a primary goal of education--that students can be taught to be better insight problem solvers outside of school by training in school and that they can be given the skills necessary for efficient discovery learning. The subjects were 116…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
Peer reviewedKeller, Clair W. – History Teacher, 1970
The author sauggests that present inquiry methods are often missing their goal and offers a technique to engage students in creative inquiry. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Creative Teaching, Generalization, Information Seeking
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1971
This handbook is based upon a new social studies curriculum designed to give students guided experience in the responsible use of personal freedom. The new approach seeks to provide actual experience in the making of choices and judgements in order to improve man's relationship to his social and physical environment. Thus, the new social studies…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Concept Teaching, Curriculum Guides
