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Direct linkSchalk, Lennart; Schumacher, Ralph; Barth, Armin; Stern, Elsbeth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Instruction often starts with an explanation of a concept or principle before students are presented with problems to be solved. Recent research indicates that reversing this widely used tell-and-practice sequence (T&P) so that exploratory problem-solving precedes the instructional explanation (i.e., PS-I) might be more beneficial. We aimed to…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Newhouse, Christopher Paul; Cooper, Martin; Cordery, Zina – Australian Educational Computing, 2017
This paper reports on a study that investigated the ways that young children interact with discrete programmable digital toys in a free play setting. One intention was to see whether this interaction would address some of the requirements of the Digital Technologies subject in the Australian Curriculum. The study was implemented in two phases in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Information Technology, Toys
Peer reviewedDyck, Jennifer L.; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
Computer-naive university students (N=124) were taught the BASIC programing language by solving and receiving feedback on program comprehension problems stated in BASIC or on corresponding problems stated in English followed by problems stated in BASIC. Results support a sequential method of instruction beginning with use of natural language…
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education
Download full textBERNHEIM, GLORIA D. – 1967
THREE- AND 4-YEAR-OLDS WERE GIVEN VERBAL LEARNING PRETRAINING TO DETERMINE ITS EFFECT UPON THE PERFORMANCE OF REVERSAL AND NONREVERSAL SHIFT DISCRIMINATION TASKS. THE EXPERIMENTAL TASK WAS THE CLASSICAL REVERSAL-NONREVERSAL SHIFT PARADIGM. THE 96 PRE-SCHOOLERS, PRIMARILY FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY NURSERY SCHOOL, WERE DIVIDED INTO 4…
Descriptors: Child Development, Concept Formation, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Rains, Mary J.; Meinke, Dean L. – 1976
Sixty-four high school students, stratified by field-dependent or independent cognitive style, were randomly assigned to homogeneous or heterogeneous groups of four to attain concepts in the sequence of complex to simple or simple to complex, with either minimal or strategy instructions. Subsequently, each student individually attained four…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
