Knowledge Acquisition for Application: Cognitive Flexibility and Transfer of Training in Ill-Structured Domains.

摘要

This report presents research findings concerned-with advanced knowledge acquisition of difficult material in ill-structured domains. The program had three interdependent aspects: (1) patterns of learning failure in advanced treatments of complex material and their causes and consequences, (2) new theory-based remedies for the observed patterns of learning failure, and (3) hypertext instructional approaches for forestalling learning failure and developing cognitive flexibility based on findings from the first two parts of the program. In the first part of the report, research is presented that reveals a substantial incidence of learning failure that is the result of oversimplification.