Participants will have access to many facilities that otherwise would be very crowded. Also, this is the time during which tens of thousands of sandhill cranes migrate through Nebraska. An informal trip to observe the migration will be organized in the evening of Saturday, March 20, 1999. Human abilities refer to differences in information processing speed and capacity. The knowledge base refers to organized declarative and metacognitive knowledge in long term memory.
Strategies refer to procedures that enable learners to solve specific problems.
Motivation refers to beliefs about one's ability to successfully perform a task, as well as one's goals for performing a task. The purpose of this course is to improve college teaching by better understanding each of the ICML's four components, and using this model to guide instructional practice. Participants will read a paper prepared for this course that describes each component in detail. This paper discusses the relative importance of each component relative to the three remaining components, and summarizes current research that addresses the extent to which each component contributes to classroom learning. Dr. Schraw is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he specializes in motivation and learning.