CHAPTER OUTLINE

  • Three Types of Thinking Skills
  • Can Thinking Skills Be Trained?
  • Thinking Skills Principle 1: Focus on Job-Specific Cognitive and Metacognitive Skills
  • Thinking Skills Principle 2: Consider a Whole-Task Course Design
    • Example 1: Problem-Based Learning
    • Example 2: Automotive Troubleshooting
    • Example 3: BioWorld
    • Features of Whole-Task Instruction
  • Evidence for Whole-Task Instruction
    • Evidence from Problem-Based Learning
    • Evidence from Sherlock
    • Evidence from Excel Training
    • A Summary of Evidence for Whole-Task Instruction
  • Thinking Skills Principle 3: Make Thinking Processes Explicit
    • Teach Metacognitive Skills
    • Display Expert Thinking Models
    • Focus Learner Attention to Behaviors of Expert Models
    • Promote Active Observation of Expert Models ...

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