Applying cognitive science to education : thinking and learning in scientific and other complex domains /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Performance, learning, and teaching
- Intellectual performance
- Important kinds of knowledge
- Specifying and interpreting concepts
- Interpreting scientific concepts
- Managing memory
- Methods and inferences
- Describing knowledge
- Organizing knowledge
- Making decisions
- Introduction to problem solving
- Systematic problem solving
- Dealing with complex problems
- Efficiency and compiled knowledge
- Quality assurance
- Unfamiliar knowledge domains
- Naive scientific knowledge
- Developing instruction
- Designing the learning process: Goals
- Designing the learning process: Means
- Producing instruction to foster lerning
- Traditional instructional method
- Innovative instructional methods
- Some educational challenges.