Chapter 9. Applying the Segmenting and Pretraining Principles: Managing Complexity By Breaking A Lesson Into Parts
CHAPTER OUTLINE
Segmenting Principle: Break a Continuous Lesson into Bite-Size Segments
Psychological Reasons for the Segmenting Principle
Evidence for Breaking a Continuous Lesson into Bite-Size Segments
Pretraining Principle: Ensure That Learners Know the Names and Characteristics of Key Concepts
Psychological Reasons for the Pretraining Principle
Evidence for Providing Pretraining in Key Concepts
What We Don't Know About Segmenting and Pretraining
WHAT'S NEW IN THIS CHAPTER?
IN SOME OF THE PREVIOUS CHAPTERS, you learned how to reduce extraneous processing (processing caused by poor instructional design) by eliminating extraneous ...
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