Promoting Self-Discovery of Improved Strategies [electronic resource] / Robert Neches.

This paper describes an approach to task analysis which seeks to identify potential sources of difficulty in the self-discovery of improved procedures by students who have been taught simpler procedures. The approach considers novices' procedures in terms of the changes needed to produce an exp...

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Main Author: Neches, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1978.
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Summary:This paper describes an approach to task analysis which seeks to identify potential sources of difficulty in the self-discovery of improved procedures by students who have been taught simpler procedures. The approach considers novices' procedures in terms of the changes needed to produce an expert procedure; the knowledge required to make those changes, and the processing demands of acquiring that knowledge, can then be determined. An analysis of strategy improvement in a relatively simple domain--single digit arithmetic--is provided as an example. (Author/RAO)
Item Description:ERIC Document Number: ED175440.
Sponsoring Agency: Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD), Washington, DC.
Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. of Mental Health (DHEW), Bethesda, MD.
Contract Number: ARPA-F44620-73-C0074.
Contract Number: NIMH-MHO7722.
ERIC Note: Best copy available; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, California, April 8-12, 1979).
Physical Description:46 p.