Feedback/Reinforcement

Feedback and reinforcement are two of the most pivotal concepts in learning. Feedback involves providing learners with information about their responses whereas reinforcement affects the tendency to make a specific…

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Backward Design

…is appears to promote “teaching to the test”. Yet despite the negative connotation that comes along with that phrase, arguable teaching to the test is exactly what the role of…

Soar (A. Newell et al.)

…fire, item is not recognized The key aspect of this example, is that Soar treats recognition as a problem solving activity in which it tries to recursively identify the components…

Decision-Making

…& Mumpower, 1980; Kaplan & Schwartz, 1975). Decision-making skill is fundamental to management education ( see Bazerman, 1986; Huber, 1980). A major focus of research on decision-making is the frequent…

Information Processing Theory (G. Miller)

…of memory. The second concept is TOTE (Test-Operate-Test-Exit) proposed by Miller, Galanter & Pribram (1960). Miller et al. suggested that TOTE should replace the stimulus-response as the basic unit of…

Structure of Intellect (J.P. Guilford)

…Psychological Review, 89, 48-59. Meeker, M.N. (1969). The Structure of Intellect. Columbus, OH: Merrill. Related Websites For more on Guilford and Structure of Intellect, see: http://www.intelltheory.com/ http://www.soisystems.com http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/J._P._Guilford    …

Attribution Theory (B. Weiner)

example, one is not likely to experience pride in success, or feelings of competence, when receiving an ‘A’ from a teacher who gives only that grade, or when defeating a…

Phenomenography (F. Marton & N. Entwistle)

…learning experience in reading articles, attending lectures, writing essays, solving problems, and studying; more recent work has examined the cross-cultural aspects of student learning experiences (i.e., papers presented at 6th…

Bad Error Messages

…Architects have a bunch of great windows dialog boxes and unintelligible error messages on their site. [add this example IE Only? Really Blockbuster? http://twitpic.com/1vygdh ]   Usability Police http://www.buigallery.com/  …

Creativity

…is a form of problem-solving. Specifically, they propose that finding problems and formulating them involves the same underlying cognitive processes of heuristic search and subgoal generation as any other kind…

Troubleshooting

…of system function and specific knowledge of all components, (2) knowledge of typical problems, symptoms and causes, (3) competence in use of diagnostic tools/ test equipment, (4) knowledge of appropriate…