Presentation Of Educational Material Research Articles

Intrinsic Motivation and instruction: conflicting Views on the Role of Motivational Processes in Computer-Based Education

Microcomputers offer unique opportunities for systematic variations in the presentation of educational materials and for research concerning the social, motivational, and academic consequences of these different variations. This paper explores one set of theoretical controversies and policy debates that has been stimulated by this new technology for instruction. It is argued that conflicting views concerning the role of intrinsic motivational processes in instruction underlie differences of opinion concerning the relative costs and benefits of instructional games and discovery-learning environments, the expected impact of different styles of teaching, and the merits of alternative strategies for the design of detailed tutorial interactions.

The Comparative Effectiveness of Different Structures for the Presentation of Educational Material (An Attempt at Experimental-Analytic Research)

In recent years the problems of programmed instruction have become the subject of research for many scholars both here and abroad. Personnel of the volunteer Laboratory of Mathematical and Cybernetic Methods in Pedagogy under the Azerbaijan (M. F. Akhundov) Teacher Training Institute for Languages have devoted their efforts to the study and explanation of the comparative effectiveness of different principles and methods for the determination of logical structures of educational material and tasks, the psychological structure of their presentation and problems pertaining to it, the proper amounts of educational material and tasks, algorithms of the operations and the system of study, and the forms and methods for controlling the course of instruction and correcting it.