Merlin C. Wittrock’s scientific contributions

... Bloom's team put forward six-level "cognitive field" of Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, that is, memorizing, understanding, using, analyzing, integrating and assessing (Anderson, 2009). Students' level of cognition can be shown from the design of the teaching activities. ...

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Corpus-based Evaluation on Instrumental Texts in Textbook

... Por último, en referencia a los procesos cognitivos establecidos por Anderson et al. (2001), se observa que el 20.3% (1194) alcanza el nivel máximo (creación), obteniéndose una puntuación media de 3.86 (sobre una mínima de 1 y máxima de 6). La mayoría de los RA (50.6%) se encuentran valorados entre los niveles 3 y 4 (aplicar y analizar), un 15.1% en los niveles 1 y 2 (recordar y comprender) y el 34.4% entre los niveles 5 y 6 (evaluar y crear). ...

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The challenge to design and assess learning outcomes in higher education

... A problem is defined as a situation in which a person wants to achieve a goal but no obvious solution is available (Mayer & Wittrock, 2006). Problems can further be divided into the subdomains of analytical (static) and complex (dynamic) problems. ...

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Using Process Data to Explain Group Differences in Complex Problem Solving

... Transfer of learning, which involves the application of knowledge, skills, and behaviors learned from one context to another, context, is a well-studied phenomenon in psychology (Galoyan & Betts, 2021;Jackson, 2016). Transfer of learning is crucial as it empowers individuals to leverage previously learned knowledge and skills to solve new problems (Mayer & Wittrock, 1996;Rebello et al., 2017;Voss, 1987). It also supports the concept of lifelong learning, making the educational process perpetual and relevant to different life stages and aspects (Illeris, 2009). ...

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From gaming to reality effectiveness of skills transfer from competitive sandbox gaming environment to near and far contexts