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Hi John, Can students use Beck's model for the Cognitive approach under Cognitive models?
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Hi John and Laura, Thank you for this outline! I wanted to clarify about the 'uncertain' aspect you mentioned above. So, if students are not sure if a certain task was done or not for a concept, do they explicitly state it as 'it was not clear...
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Dear Emily, I think that the wording of the blog was a bit unclear. The point is that these studies are not relevant to those learning objectives, even though a student could, theoretically, make a link. I have rewritten the blog for clarity.
Cognitive load theory
Annika
Also, would you recommend that students add, in the conclusion, some steps the researcher could have taken to rectify the issues that arose, for each of the concepts?
Paper 2B: Good, bad, ugly