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Cognitive development based on process-learning environments

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Instructional Models in Computer-Based Learning Environments

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Within the cognitive domain there is a standard distinction between the learning of verbal information, of intellectual skills, and of cognitive strategies. Cognitive strategies however rarely become taught for systematically. This contribution reports about principles for teaching the use of cognitive strategies and the evaluation of learning effects at that level. Based on learning environments which include collaborative works by students on ill-structured problems represented by means of computer simulations the study leads to the result that cognitive complexity of students can be fostered successfully.

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  1. DISCE Ausbildungsberatung und Lernsysteme GmbH, Schledebrückstraße 23, D-4830, Gütersloh, Germany

    Klaus Breuer

  2. Department of Education, University of Paderborn, D-4790, Paderborn, Germany

    Klaus Breuer

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  1. Department of Education, University of Twente, P. O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Sanne Dijkstra , Hein P. M. Krammer  & Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer ,  & 

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Breuer, K. (1992). Cognitive development based on process-learning environments. In: Dijkstra, S., Krammer, H.P.M., van Merriënboer, J.J.G. (eds) Instructional Models in Computer-Based Learning Environments. NATO ASI Series, vol 104. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02840-7_16

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