ECI 660 - Cognition and Instructional Design: Midterm Question

Process

This midterm question will involve three steps:

1. Please select a learning or educational situation with which your are familiar with. It can be a class or training you are currently teaching, a class or training you are currently a student in, or some situation with which you are very familiar. Provide a description of this situation for an educationally literate person who most likely does not anything about the subject matter being dealt with in your situation.
2. Describe the conduct of this educational situation by applying the cognitive perspective that fits it best. You selection may be a behavioristic learning situation, for instance. Give examples as to why you feel your educational situation is behavioristic; what makes it look that way to you? Take time and give detailed descriptions of cases that back your stance.
3. Describe how this educational situation would change if a different cognitive perspective was applied to the conduct of the instruction. For instance, if you were discussing a behavioristic situation, what would it look like if a Piagetian cognitive psychology was applied instead? Instruction would probably become more oriented towards stages, etc.

Specifications

• The paper should be from 5–10 pages double-spaced.
• It is not necessary to cite sources unless they are direct quotes.
• Try not to use direct quotes.
• I would like these exams to be posted and discussed by your peers. I will provide a mechanism for doing this.

Rubric

• The following aspects will be important in your grading:
• Demonstration of comprehensive knowledge in at least two of the covered cognitive theories
• The diagnosis of a learning situation in a defensible manner from the standpoint of one of these cognitive theories
• The creative application of an alternative theory with defensible predictions as to what would happen

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