What counts as a general principle that we might expect students to know and be able to use? Are they the result of meta-analyses and convergent evidence? Are they established relationships? Are they, more typically, recurrent topics/ideas popular with textbook authors? Or...Of course, they may often be simply ideas or conclusions we construct from the lessons/lectures we present during a particular term. In my Social Psych class I have students develop proposals to resolve social/community problems and I always hope they will be able to utilize key research findings/principles in the text,. If students in a behavior modification class want to develop a project, I assume knowledge of learning principles would be of use. In a Human Factors class where students might design an instrument cluster, I assume there would be key sensory/perceptual principles employed. Is this really the case? Are these comparable? Should we expect transfer, or at least application across problems in these areas?
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