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EDUCATION
370-3
SKILLS AND STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING AND THINKING
Intersession, 1988 ?
Professor: Dr. Phil Winne
May 9- June l7
Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30 - 12:15 p.m.
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Office: ?
MPX 9611
Location: MPX 8651 ?
Telephone: 291-4858
PREREQUISITES:
Education 401/402 or equivalent.
Education 320 or Education 422 or a 300-level course in Psychology (e.g., Psychology 320) is
strongly recommended.
DESCRIPTION:
This course surveys current research on cognitive skills and learning strategies as a
specialization within instructional psychology. It describes what cognitive skills and learning
strategies are, and explores applications of this research to instructional practice.
Students interested in examining how research in instructional pyschotogy can be applied in
education will profit from this course. Teachers and prospective teachers will acquire
knowledge which can be applied to planning, delivering, and evaluating teaching. For psychology
students, this course extends research on learning and motivation into the context of one of
society's most influential and pervasive "laboratories," the school and university classroom.
OUTLINE OF TOPICS:
• Overview of instructional psychology
• Representations for knowledge and for cognitive skills
• Reasoning strategies, heuristics and biases, analogical reasoning
• Problem solving strategies: general and domain specific (mathematics, physics)
• Strategies for comprehending and learning from text
• Self-regulation and motivational strategies
• Creativity
• Educational programs that address cognitive skills and strategies
REQUIREMENTS:
• Approximately 80 pages of reading per week from books and xerox materials on reserve
• Various written assignments (30%)
• Analyzing a set of research articles to draw implications for instruction (35%)
• Final exam (35%)
READINGS
Materials on reserve.