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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.

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