Learning as a generative activity : eight learning strategies that promote understanding /

"During the past twenty-five years, researchers have made impressive advances in pinpointing effective learning strategies (i.e., activities the learner engages in during learning that are intended to improve learning). In [this book], Logan Fiorella and Richard E. Mayer share eight evidence-ba...

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Main Author: Fiorella, Logan.
Other Authors: Mayer, Richard E., 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Summary:"During the past twenty-five years, researchers have made impressive advances in pinpointing effective learning strategies (i.e., activities the learner engages in during learning that are intended to improve learning). In [this book], Logan Fiorella and Richard E. Mayer share eight evidence-based learning strategies that promote understanding : summarizing, mapping, drawing, imagining, self-testing, self-explaining, teaching, and enacting. Each chapter describes and exemplifies a learning strategy, examines the underlying cognitive theory, evaluates strategy effectiveness by analyzing the latest research, pinpoints boundary conditions, and explores practical implications and future directions. Each learning strategy targets generative learning, in which learners actively make sense of the material so they can apply their learning to new situations. This concise, accessible introduction to learning strategies is intended to benefti students, researchers, and practitioners in educational psychology, as well as general readers interested in the important twenty-first-century skill of regulating one's own learning"--provided by publisher.
Physical Description:xvi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9781107069916
1107069912