At a minimum, this overt strategy includes distinguishing between important and unimportant information, synthesizing details into more general ideas, and identifying critical interrelationships.
What is creating summaries
100
Where the original task and the transfer task overlap in content.
What is Specific Transfer
100
This is a specific sequence of steps that guarantees a correct solution
What is Algorithm
100
This is a form of transfer that involves applying previously learned knowledge or skills to a new situation.
What is Creativity
100
This involves evaluating the accuracy, credibility, and worth of information and lines of reasoning.
What is Critical Thinking
200
This means thinking about thinking
What is Metacognition
200
This is where prior learning helps learning or performance in another situation.
What is Positive Transfer
200
A variety of ways that in the problem-solving process learners might mentally represent a problem.
What is Encoding
200
Students are more likely to think creatively when we pose these questions that requires them to use previously learned information in new ways.
What is Higher-Level Questions
200
This judges the value of data and research results in terms of the methods used to obtain them and their potential relevance to certain conclusions in Critical Thinking.
What is Hypothesis Testing
300
This is when learners intentionally use a certain approach to learning and remembering something.
What is Learning Strategy
300
What is the extent to which knowledge and skills acquired in one situation affect's a person's learning or performance in a subsequent situation
What is Transfer
300
This problem is where the desired goal is unclear, information needed to solve the problem is missing, or several solutions exist.
What is Ill-Defined Problem
300
What type of thinking is the processes of generating many different ideas from a single starting point
What is Divergent Thinking
300
This determines the likelihood and uncertainties associated with various events.
What is Probabilistic Reasoning
400
Students' beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning are collectively known as this.
What is Epistemic Beliefs
400
Activities similar or identical to those that students will eventually encounter in the outside world.
What is Authentic Activities
400
This problem is where the goal is clearly stated, all information needed to solve the problem is presented and only one correct answer exists.
What is Well-Defined Problem
400
What thinking processes is the combination of information into a single idea or product.
What is Convergent Thinking
400
What discriminates between reasons that do and do not support a conclusion.
What is Argument Analysis
500
Providing opportunities for self-directed learning, addressing any deficits in metacognition with other strategies, and teaching relatively simple learning strategies are all examples of this.
What is Accommodating Students with Special Needs
500
This is where a learning environment in which applying school subject matter to new situations, cross-disciplinary contexts, and real-world problems is both the expectation and the norm.
What is Culture of Transfer
500
This involves using existing knowledge and skills to address an unanswered question or troubling situation.
What is Problem Solving
500
Brainstorming ideas in collaboration with peers; deferring judgments until after a lengthy list has been generated is an example of how to teach and encourage cognitive and metacognitive strategies that support this.
What is Creative Thinking
500
This is the understanding and evaluating persuasive techniques found in oral and written languages.