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  • Research and Development and School Change

    Edited by Robert Glaser ...
    First published in 1983. The essays in this book are based on papers presented at a symposium held in March 1976 at the Learning and Development Center (LRDC), University of Pittsburgh. It was planned to serve three purposes: to pay tribute to retiring chairman Ralph W. Tyler, to mark the dedication of LRDC's new buiding and to provide an opportunity for those involved in research and development ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Symmetry, Spectroscopy, and Crystallography

    The Structural Nexus

    by Robert Glaser ...
    Written in a clear and understandable manner, this book provides a comprehensive, yet non-mathematical, treatment of the topic, covering the basic principles of symmetry and the important spectroscopic techniques used to probe molecular structure.The chapters are extensively illustrated and deal with such topics as symmetry elements, operations and descriptors, symmetry guidelines, high-fidelity ... Read more

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  • Advances in instructional Psychology

    Volume 4

    Edited by Robert Glaser ...
    Series series Advances in Instructional Psychology Series
    The contributors to this volume address reasoning and problem solving as fundamental to learning and teaching and to modern literacy. The research on expertise and the development of competence makes it clear that structures of knowledge and cognitive process should be tightly linked throughout education to attain high levels of ability. The longstanding pedagogical assumption that the attainment ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Diagnostic Monitoring of Skill and Knowledge Acquisition

    An adjunct to the increased emphasis on developing students' critical thinking and higher order skills is the need for methods to monitor and evaluate these abilities. These papers provide insight into current techniques and examine possibilities for the future. The contributors to Diagnostic Monitoring of Skill and Knowledge Acquisition focus on two beliefs: that new kinds of tests and assessment ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Nature of Expertise

    Due largely to developments made in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology during the past two decades, expertise has become an important subject for scholarly investigations. The Nature of Expertise displays the variety of domains and human activities to which the study of expertise has been applied, and reflects growing attention on learning and the acquisition of expertise. Applying ... Read more

    $165.99 USD

  • Advances in instructional Psychology, Volume 5

    Educational Design and Cognitive Science

    Edited by Robert Glaser ...
    Investigators have moved back and forth between design efforts and basic studies in cognition to improve both application and fundamental knowledge. This volume's theme is this interaction between practice and science with the opportunity for reflecting on findings in order to understand them and suggesting improved forms of application and their underlying explanation. This is seen in various ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • innovations in Learning

    New Environments for Education

    Edited by Leona Schauble, Robert Glaser ...
    This volume documents the growth of a new kind of interdisciplinary teamwork that is evolving among practitioners, researchers, teacher educators, and community partners. Its premise: the design of learning environments and the development of theory must proceed in a mutually supportive fashion. Scientific researchers have learned that a prerequisite to studying the kinds of learning that matter ... Read more

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  • Foundations for A Psychology of Education

    The chapters in this collection illustrate how current concepts and principles from various disciplines can be viewed from the perspective of their value to educational process thinking. While not providing specific prescriptions for educational problems, the articles provide relevant experimental and theoretical knowledge has accumulated in many fields including learning theory, cognitive ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • International Perspectives on the Design of Technology-supported Learning Environments

    In recent years, the use of technology for the purposes of improving and enriching traditional instructional practices has received a great deal of attention. However, few works have explicitly examined cognitive, psychological, and educational principles on which technology-supported learning environments are based. This volume attempts to cover the need for a thorough theoretical analysis and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Views From the Content Domains

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    One of the most active fields of educational research in recent years has been the investigation of problem-solving performance. Two opposing views of current research -- one suggesting that there are more differences than similarities within different domains, and the other stating that there is great similarity -- lead to a variety of questions:* Is problem solving a single construct?* Are there ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science

    Edited by Susan E. F. Chipman ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Cognitive Science is an avowedly multidisciplinary field, drawing upon many traditional disciplines or research areas--including Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology, Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence, and Education--that contribute to our understanding of cognition. Just as learning and memory cannot truly prove effective as disconnected studies, practical applications of ... Read more

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  • The One World Schoolhouse

    Education Reimagined

    by Salman Khan ...
    A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly ... Read more

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