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ERIC Number: EJ310883
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Microcomputer Learning in Small Groups: Cognitive Requirements and Group Processes.
Webb, Noreen M.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v76 n6 p1076-88 Dec 1984
This study investigated the cognitive abilities, cognitive styles, and student demographic characteristics that predicted learning of computer programing in small groups; the group process variables that predicted learning of computer programing; and the student characteristics that related to group processes. Different profiles of abilities predicted different programing outcomes. (Author/DWH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, Individual Differences, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Learning Processes, Microcomputers, Performance Factors, Predictor Variables, Programing, Small Group Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: LOGO Programing Language
Note: A version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association (91st, Anaheim, CA, August 26-30, 1983). Research supported in part by a grant from the Spencer Foundation and by the Center for the Study of Evaluation, University of California, Los Angeles.