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Hurst, Joe; And Others – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1978
Emphasis on the systems approach in economic and social studies education demands attention to hierarchical analysis and sequencing of desired skills and instruction according to valid learning hierarchies. Learning hierarchies are arrangements of intellectual skill objectives in a pattern of prerequisite relationships among simple and complex…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Economics Education, Higher Education
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Robinson, Peter – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2005
This paper describes a framework for researching the Cognition Hypothesis which claims that pedagogic tasks be sequenced for learners on the basis of increases in their cognitive complexity. It distinguishes dimensions of complexity which increase the conceptual and linguistic demands tasks make on communication, so creating the conditions for L2…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Cognitive Development