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mmm · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Research indicates that students write better-quality essays when they use computers than when they handwrite the essays, but only if they are skilled at using a computer. If they aren't skilled, the quality of their essays is lower than when they're handwritten. Using the human memory model as a basis, explain specifically why the quality of the essays is lower if students aren't skilled with using computers.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The fact that students organize the information they study in the form of schemas has important implications for teaching. Which of the following is the most important implication of this fact?

a. Students should be presented with relationships among ideas as well as the ideas themselves.
b. Students should be allowed the discover ideas on their own.
c. Students should only be presented ideas that can be illustrated with concrete materials.
d. Students should be encouraged to rehearse items in the same form they're presented.

jaykayy05 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

If the students aren't skilled in working with computers, the process of using the computer takes too much working memory space, leaving too little to compose a quality essay. If computer skills are developed to the point of automaticity, more working memory space is left that can be devoted to the construction of the essay.

Answer to Question 2

a