Schemas in Problem Solving

Klappentext This book explores a new theory of schema development and its ability to serve as a unified basis for understanding learning, instruction and assessment. The theory's prescriptions for teaching are direct, and its application to assessment suggests new directions for tests. Marshall illustrates the main features of her theory with experimental evidence from students who are learning to recognize and solve arithmetic story problems. Zusammenfassung Schemas in Problem Solving introduces an alternative approach to the study of learning instruction! and assessment. Focusing on the area of arithmetic story problems! Marshall outlines how instruction can lead to more meaningful learning by emphasizing the ways students acquire and store knowledge in memory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Fundamentals: 1. Schema roots; 2. The nature of a schema; 3. The schemas of arithmetic story problems; Part II. Schemas and Instruction: 4. Theoretical issues for instruction; 5. The story problem solver and the problem solving environment: two examples of schema-based instruction; Part III. Learning from Instruction: 6. Learning and schema theory; 7. Learning from schema-based instruction; 8. The acquisition of planning knowledge; 9. The diagram: marker and template; Part IV. Schemas and Assessment: 10. Schema-based assessment; 11. Assessment in SPS and PSE; Part V. Schema Models: 12. Production systems, neural networks and hybrid models; 13. The performance model; 14. The learning model; 15. The full schema model; 16. Some concluding remarks on schema theory; Notes; References; Name index; Subject index.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra P. Marshall, Sandra P. (San Diego State University) Marshall, Marshall Sandra P., Marshall Sandra P.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.1995
• EAN: 9780521430722
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43072-2
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology