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Cognition Research: Some Implications for the Design of Social Studies Instructional Materials.
Martorella, Peter H. – 1979
This analysis considers several major areas in which cognition research would seem to have pregnant implications for the conscious design of social studies texts and sketches the ways in which the structure of texts might be shaped if research were applied. The first area discussed is matching texts to significant user characterics. There are at…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Educational Objectives, Educational Research