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Specific Versus General Procedures in Instructions

Richard Catrambone
Pages 49-93 | Published online: 11 Nov 2009

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Jennifer Ockerman & Amy Pritchett. (2000) A Review and Reappraisal of Task Guidance: Aiding Workers in Procedure Following. International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics 4:3, pages 191-212.
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Susan Palmiter & Jay Elkerton. (1993) Animated Demonstrations for Learning Procedural Computer-Based Tasks. Human–Computer Interaction 8:3, pages 193-216.
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Ann-Sophie Grub, Antje Biermann, Doris Lewalter & Roland Brünken. (2022) Professional knowledge and task instruction specificity as influencing factors of prospective teachers' professional vision. Teaching and Teacher Education 109, pages 103517.
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Dorrit Billman, Richard Catrambone, Jolene Feldman, Zachary Caddick, Sky Eurich, Jonathan Leventhal, Rob Martin & Kasia Sliwinska. (2018) Training for Generalization: The Role of Integrated Skills and Knowledge in Technology Domains. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 62:1, pages 1434-1438.
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Elsa Eiriksdottir & Richard Catrambone. (2014) Instruction Use Depends on the Level of Details. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 58:1, pages 2365-2369.
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Elsa Eiriksdottir & Richard Catrambone. (2011) Procedural Instructions, Principles, and Examples. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53:6, pages 749-770.
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HEDVA VITAL & RACHEL KARNIOL. (2010) Procedural versus narrative cross-language priming and bilingual children's reading and sentence sequencing of same genre and opposite genre text in the other language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 14:4, pages 547-561.
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T.S. Hilbert, A. Renkl, S. Schworm, S. Kessler & K. Reiss. (2008) Learning to teach with worked-out examples: a computer-based learning environment for teachers. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 24:4, pages 316-332.
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Casey L. Fiesler, Anne Collins McLaughlin, Arthur D. Fisk & Wendy A. Rogers. (2016) Conceptual versus Procedural Feedback in the Training of a Home Medical Device. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 47:15, pages 1810-1814.
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Ian Robertson & Hank Kahney. (1996) The use of examples in expository texts: Outline of an interpretation theory for text analysis. Instructional Science 24:2, pages 93-123.
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Jay Elkerton & Susan L. Palmiter. (2016) Designing Help Using a GOMS Model: An Information Retrieval Evaluation. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 33:2, pages 185-204.
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R. Catrambone. (1991) The effects of examples and principles in instructions for computer software. The effects of examples and principles in instructions for computer software.
Richard Catrambone & Keith J. Holyoak. (1990) Learning subgoals and methods for solving probability problems. Memory & Cognition 18:6, pages 593-603.
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