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Learning with microcomputers: Training primary school children on a problem‐solving program
Author(s) -
Simon Tony,
McShane John,
Radley Sally
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.2350010106
Subject(s) - psychology , training (meteorology) , control (management) , relation (database) , developmental psychology , applied psychology , medical education , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , medicine , physics , database , meteorology
Abstract This study investigated the effects of structured training at two informational levels on children's performance on a problem‐solving computer program. An informed‐training group (strategy training with detailed explanations) performed at a superior level to a blind‐training group (strategy training with no explanations) and a control group. This superiority was maintained 3 weeks later on retest. The results are discussed in relation to the processes that mediate and facilitate training.