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What is Performance-Based

Chapter 69
Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
Performances that are created or produced to do something often in settings that involve real-world applications of knowledge and skills. Performance behaviors that involve real-world applications.
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Instructional Design: Considering the Cognitive Learning Needs of Older Adults
George Pate (Mississippi State University, USA) and Jianxia Du (Mississippi State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 5
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch069
Abstract
Because of the growing number of older adults per total population, discussion has grown regarding the cognitive learning needs of older adults. In this article, I will look at what research has discovered and what actions have been taken in regard to meeting those needs. I also wanted to know whether instructional designers needed to consider those learning needs in their instructional design practices. But why should instructional designers even consider the cognitive learning needs of older adults. Aren’t these older adults past the point of learning or having the need to learn? Aren’t they just going to retire, relax, travel, do hobbies, visit the grandchildren, and live off of their retirement income?
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Teaching Fire Safety in Schools of Architecture: The Spanish Case
Being described in terms of the performance of a material, product, component or system which can be measured, calculated, or predicted.
Published in Chapter: Teaching Fire Safety in Schools of Architecture: The Spanish Case; From: Advancing STEM Education and Innovation in a Time of Distance Learning
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