Technical training: An application of a strategy for learning structural and functional information

Little research has been directed to the development of learning strategies for acquiring technical information. The present experiment tested a strategy, developed from principles on general text processing, for learning technical material, specifically, structural and functional information. In ad...

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Published in:Contemporary educational psychology 1986-07, Vol.11 (3), p.217-228
Main Authors: Larson, Celia O., Dansereau, Donald F., Hythecker, Velma I., O'Donnell, Angela, Young, Michael D., Lambiotte, Judith G., Rocklin, Thomas R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Conditioning
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Learning. Memory
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
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Summary:Little research has been directed to the development of learning strategies for acquiring technical information. The present experiment tested a strategy, developed from principles on general text processing, for learning technical material, specifically, structural and functional information. In addition, the effectiveness of cooperative learning was examined as a technique for learning technical information and as a vehicle for implementing the strategy. The results demonstrated that cooperative learning was effective for acquiring structural and functional information and the technical learning strategy was effective for acquiring structural information.
ISSN:0361-476X
1090-2384
DOI:10.1016/0361-476X(86)90018-4