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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Pouw, Wim T. J. L.; van Gog, Tamara; Paas, Fred – Educational Psychology Review, 2014
Recent literature on learning with instructional manipulatives seems to call for a moderate view on the effects of perceptual and interactive richness of instructional manipulatives on learning. This "moderate view" holds that manipulatives' perceptual and interactive richness may compromise learning in two ways: (1) by imposing a…
Descriptors: Manipulative Materials, Learning, Perception, Interaction
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Spanjers, Ingrid A. E.; van Gog, Tamara; van Merrienboer, Jeroen J. G. – Educational Psychology Review, 2010
This article reviews studies investigating segmentation of dynamic visualizations (i.e., showing dynamic visualizations in pieces with pauses in between) and discusses two not mutually exclusive processes that might underlie the effectiveness of segmentation. First, cognitive activities needed for dealing with the transience of dynamic…
Descriptors: Visualization, Learning, Cognitive Processes, Animation
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Antonenko, Pavlo; Paas, Fred; Grabner, Roland; van Gog, Tamara – Educational Psychology Review, 2010
Application of physiological methods, in particular electroencephalography (EEG), offers new and promising approaches to educational psychology research. EEG is identified as a physiological index that can serve as an online, continuous measure of cognitive load detecting subtle fluctuations in instantaneous load, which can help explain effects of…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Medicine, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Tests
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Paas, Fred; van Gog, Tamara; Sweller, John – Educational Psychology Review, 2010
Over the last few years, cognitive load theory has progressed and advanced rapidly. The articles in this special issue, which document those advances, are based on contributions to the 3rd International Cognitive Load Theory Conference (2009), Heerlen, The Netherlands. The articles of this special issue on cognitive load theory discuss new…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings)
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van Gog, Tamara; Rummel, Nikol – Educational Psychology Review, 2010
Example-based learning has been studied from different perspectives. Cognitive research has mainly focused on "worked" examples, which typically provide students with a written worked-out didactical solution to a problem to study. Social-cognitive research has mostly focused on "modeling" examples, which provide students the opportunity to observe…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Experiential Learning, Cognitive Processes, Models
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van Gog, Tamara; Paas, Fred; Marcus, Nadine; Ayres, Paul; Sweller, John – Educational Psychology Review, 2009
Learning by observing and imitating others has long been recognized as constituting a powerful learning strategy for humans. Recent findings from neuroscience research, more specifically on the mirror neuron system, begin to provide insight into the neural bases of learning by observation and imitation. These findings are discussed here, along…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Imitation, Observational Learning, Brain