Powerful Environments for Promoting
Deep Conceptual & Strategic Learning

Edited By L. Verschaffel, et al.
Studia Paedagogica, No. 41
December 2005
Leuven University Press
ISBN: 905867469X
255 pages, Illustrated, 6 ¼” x 9 ½”
$72.50 Paper Original

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Over the past two decades a substantial amount of research has been reported relating to the development and evaluation of powerful learning environments for the acquisition in students of worthwhile educational objectives focusing on conceptual understanding, higher-order cognitive and meta-cognitive skills, and self-regulated learning.

This research has been mainly undertaken from three distinct, but related perspectives in the study of learning and instruction, namely instructional psychology, instructional technology, and instructional design. Against this background, a Research Network was initiated in 2002 with the aim of interactively contributing to the advancement of theory and methodology relating to the design, implementation, and evaluation of powerful learning environments.

Contents

The Problem of Knowledge in the Design of Learning Environments.
On Learning Environments that Foster Subject-Matter Competence.
Engagement in Learning.
Does Social Interaction Influence 3-year-old Children’s Tendency to Focus on Numerosity?
Using Mathematical Symbols.
Small group Math Problem Solving.
Remedying Secondary School Students’ Illusion of Linearity.
Math with Interactive Animations.
Teaching Percentages.
Student Learning in Electronic-Engineering.
Learner Control over Information Presentation in Physics Education.
Impact of External Graphical Representations.
Using Representational Tools to Support Historical Reasoning.

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