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Comparative Analysis of the Cognitive Load Theory and the Schema Theory in Learning
Comparative Analysis of the Cognitive Load Theory and the Schema Theory in Learning
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Introduction
Learning theories provide frameworks that are important in understanding how to use information, to create knowledge, and to ensure that learning takes place. These frameworks can be used by learning designers to fit them the different learner needs and come up with more informed policies and decisions regarding the most relevant and befitting practices to a specific learning group (Sweller, van Merriënboer, & Paas, 2019). For instance, the cognitive load learning approach and enhancing knowledge development using the schema theory are some of the approaches that are used to inform the strategies applied in the process of teaching and learning. The cognitive learning theory (CLT) was developed by Sweller (1998) in the late 20th century and is based on the notion that an individual’s working memory is limited to some level of information at a time. The theory looks at the part of the brain that processes what one is currently engaged in with reference to other activities. The cognitive load is also defined by Chandler & Sweller (1991), as the amount of information processing needed by an individual to perform a given task. In enhancing knowledge and development through text materials and instructions, schema theory approaches to knowledge and the role of prior knowledge in comprehension are discussed with reference to how they enhance teaching and learning. In this report, the two areas discussed above will be analysed deeply in regard to how they influence and impact teaching and learning processes. As the education system continues to change due to a rapidly changing world, it is important to look at how these theories can help, alter, or positive impact the role of teaching and how to improve learning. It is also important to outline the integration between the CLT approach and the schema theory strategies as a way of trying to further improve teaching and learning. The report begins by looking at CLT approaches and how they impact earning from instructional materials, followed by a review of how to enhance knowledge development through text materials and instruction using the schema theory approaches. The paper will then demonstrate the interrelationships between them in terms of their theoretical approach and research findings, and lastly consider the implications for educational practice or theory and research. There is convergence in the way CLT and the schema theory focus their attention on knowledge, prior and current, to ensure that teaching emphasizes meeting of an objective from an individual learner’s point of view.
Cognitive Load and Learning from Instructional Materials
CLT bases its argument on a widely accepted principle of how humans process information as shown in image 1 below. CLT describes the entire process as being made up of three parts; the working memory, the long-term memory, and the sensory memory (Kirschner, 2002). From this model, other researchers have added on to the knowledge.
Image 1: the information processing principle in CLT (Source: Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968)
On a daily basis, learning includes one being bombarded with loads of sensory information. Plass and Kalyuga (2019) found that sensory memory has the capacity to filter out a majority of this information, yet maintain an impression for the most crucial items or pieces of information long enough to store them into the working memory. For instance, when playing in a team sport, the sensory memory discards information for the adjacent team and other “irrelevant” information such as nearby sounds, smells, or the surrounding to focus only on playing. Similarly in learning, Kirschner, Sweller, Kirschner, & Zambrano (2018) observed that information from the sensory memory pass into the working memory where further processing or disposal of the same occurs. The working memory holds chunks of information for a given period of time. This is the basis of the CLT in learning and defining how to ensure teaching occurs effectively.
When a learner’s brain processes information, the data is categorized and moved into the long term memory, where storage occurs in knowledge structured defined by Sweller and Paas (2017) as schemas. The schemas are responsible for organization of information in accordance to how one places importance or value. For example, there are schemas for different concepts including animals, dogs, mammals, and other things. Additionally, there are behavioural schemas for actions including socialization, instruction giving and receiving, and other activities such as participation in sports. The more gains practice in applying the schemas, the more they become effortless behaviour, in a process termed by Chandler & Sweller (1991) as automation. These factors are important for learners in terms of how they gain, process, and retain information.
John Sweller, the developer of CLT, related the principle to learning observing that the levels of information that the working memory of a learner is able to hold at a given time is limited. In this sense, Sweller (1998) explained that because of the limited capacity of the working memory, instructional methods in teaching and learning must avoid creating an overload, where additional activities that do not directly impact learning must be removed. CLT also describes the working memory as a function that can be extended in two means. The first is how the mind is able to process auditory and visual information separately. Visual items and auditory items are not in competition in the same manner that two similar items (visual or audio) compete, in a process called the modality effect (Sweller, van Merriënboer, & Paas, 2019). For instance, explanatory data will be less impactful to the working memory if it is narrated compared to when added to a complex diagram. From this information, it emerges that the teaching of prerequisite skills and pre-training before an introduction into a complex issue helps to establish different schemas that extend the learner’s working memory (De Jong, 2010). The implication of this concept to learning is that a learner can better understand and learn more complex information quicker because of the pre-learning activity.
The application of the CLT to learning is seen in a number of fronts relevant to teaching and the overall learning process. CLT assists in the designing of learning in a way that reduces the demand on the working memory of a learner to make the process more effective. Sweller, van Merriënboer, & Paas (2019) found CLT to be applicable in measuring expertise and adapting presentation of instructions accordingly for learners. CLT also helps with the reduction of the problem space, a gap that exists between the desired goal and the current situation in learning (Sweller, van Merriënboer, & Paas, 2019). For learners, a large problem space means that the working memory is overloaded. For example, where a complex problem is involved, the learner is expected to work backwards from the objective to the current state. Such an action is important because CLT comes in to help in holding information in the working memory. A focus on the objective also reduces the attention from learnt information, making it the learning process less effective (Chandler & Sweller, 1991). CLT demands that complex problems be broken down into smaller parts to reduce the problem space and lessen the learner’s cognitive load, to make learning more effective.
The main implication of the CLT approach in learning and teaching is the reduction of the split-attention effect. Whenever one faces multiple sources of information (especially visual data) including explanatory text, diagrams, and labels, a learner’s attention would be divided amongst these elements, thus adding to their cognitive load and making it even more difficult for them to generate new schemas. Upon interpretation of the visual information, the effect is significantly reduced (Sweller, van Merriënboer, & Paas, 2019). CLT calls for focusing on a singular part of a complex problem to reduce the split-attention effect and the cognitive load. The same applies to auditory information. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all extraneous noise sources are removed when teaching. Extra sources of visual or auditory information such as information in a diagram r people talking loudly in the background when teaching only add to the cognitive load and create the split-attention effect. CLT’s idea is to overcome the split-attention effect by replacing some auditory or visual information with each other to reduce the cognitive load on the working memory.
Enhancing Knowledge Development through Text Materials and Instruction
Richard Anderson played a vital role in the introduction of the schema theory to the education scene. Schemata provides a form of representation in regards to complex knowledge and that old information influences the acquisition of newer knowledge (McVee, Dunsmore, & Gavelek, 2005). Consequently, the learning process is therefore applicable to the learning process, where it serves as a crucial counterweight to bottom-up approaches to teaching and learning. Particularly, the schema theory and its approaches relate to reading and teaching where the emphasis is on use of bottom-up strategies from perceived letters entering the brain and applying top-down knowledge in the construction of a meaningful representation of context in text (Pressley, Tanenbaum, McDaniel, & Wood, 1990). The implication of the schema theory to instruction giving include the suggestion to have relevant information and knowledge activation before any sought of learning and reading. The theory demands that teaching begin by the provision of prerequisite knowledge (Mayer, 1996). The theory also emphasizes on the need to focus more on teaching the higher-order comprehension structures. Therefore, the schema approach in teaching and learning offers an empirical and theoretical basis for practices relating to instruction giving.
The schema theory is applied by linguists and cognitive psychologists in the understanding of the interaction amongst several core factors that affect the learning and teaching processes. In a simple definition, Lorch Jr & van den Broek (1997) offer that the schema theory is a perspective that all knowledge must be organized into small units of knowledge, schemata, to help in the storing of information. Schemas are generalized descriptions and conceptual systems that aid in the understanding of knowledge and how information is represented and used. Schemata represents knowledge on certain concepts including objects and how they interrelate with events, actions, sequence of actions, objects, and sequence of events (McVee, Dunsmore, & Gavelek, 2005). For example, a schema for a classroom may involve knowledge on the expectations, the environment, the sitting arrangement, and the size or feel. The classroom may also be thought of from a larger perspective of learning and education, that is the school and other activities in it. Depending on personal information and knowledge, the information available about the said classroom as a single occurring event or part of a whole system is part of an individual’s schema. Therefore, these two perspectives go together in the development of the schema and every new information gained or experience is incorporated into the schema. Similarly, Mayer (1996) found that learners create schemata for all things. Before they engage in the process of learning, learners already gained some experience and knowledge form other schemata, thus influencing their perceptions on reality. The prior knowledge not only affects how they process and interpret information but also affects comprehension and reading (Wade et al., 1993). As more information is added and knowledge increase, the schemata continue to change.
The impact of the schema theory in teaching and learning is that education is provided with an alternative perspective regarding the representation of some complex knowledge forms. It focuses attention on the role of the old knowledge and what such information does to the acquisition of new knowledge (McVee, Dunsmore, & Gavelek, 2005), thus further putting emphasis on the top-down role and reader-based factors in the teaching and learning process. It follows that individuals are able to learn more effectively when new information interlocks with their existing schemata. The role of prior knowledge emerges as an important factor in teaching and learning, especially for the schema theory because it shows how schema simplify the entire process. New knowledge is categorized and interpreted through a comparative process with newer experiences to the existing schema.
Comparative Analysis of the Cognitive Load Theory and the Schema Theory in Learning
One of the most important similarities between these two theories is how they understand and emphasize on the role of breaking down information and knowledge into small units. CLT calls for the reduction of the demand on the working memory of a learner to make the process more effective. For learners, a large problem space means that the working memory is overloaded. A focus on the objective also reduces the attention from learnt information, making it the learning process less effective. CLT demands that complex problems be broken down into smaller parts to reduce the problem space and lessen the learner’s cognitive load, to make learning more effective. The schema theory follows the same concept in imparting new information to learners. The approach presents that learners create schemata for all things.
The implication of the schema theory to instruction giving include the suggestion to have relevant information and knowledge activation before any sought of learning and reading. The same principle is used in the CLT approach where the concept demands that teaching begin by the provision of prerequisite knowledge. Like in CLT, the schema theory approach in teaching and learning finds that individuals are able to learn more effectively when new information interlocks with their existing schemata. The role of prior knowledge emerges as an important factor in teaching and learning, especially for the schema theory because it shows how schema simplify the entire process. New knowledge is categorized and interpreted through a comparative process with newer experiences to the existing schema. Before they engage in the process of learning, learners already gained some experience and knowledge form other schemata, thus influencing their perceptions on reality. The prior knowledge not only affects how they process and interpret information but also affects comprehension and reading. Specifically, the CLT approach emphasizes that learners can better understand and learn more complex information quicker where there is pre-learning activity.
Implications for Educational Practice or Theory and Research
A clear integration between these two approaches emerge. The CLT and the schema theory approaches converge in the perspective that learning and teaching are less effective where instructional materials directly and indirectly overwhelm the limited working memory resources of a learner. While this language is not specifically used in the schema theory approach, the latter focuses on repeated activities and events that create prior knowledge to reduce the cognitive load. While CLT focuses on the identification of instructional designs to effectively reduce the unnecessary cognitive burdens on a learner’s working memory, the schema theory emphasizes on breaking down knowledge into small units (schemas) with the intention of supporting old knowledge to help in retaining the new, thereby creating improved learning efficiency and instruction giving. The implication for educational practice is a need to focus teaching and learning on an individual learner, to understand their cognitive load or their schema patterns. The role of prior knowledge also comes to play in theory and a requirement for further research emerges in the realm of merging the cognitive load and schema retention for learners.
Conclusions
In summary, learning theories provide frameworks that are important in understanding how to use information, to create knowledge, and to ensure that learning takes place. The frameworks can be used by learning designers to fit them the different learner needs and come up with more informed policies and decisions regarding the most relevant and befitting practices to a specific learning group. The cognitive load learning approach and enhancing knowledge development through the schema theory are some of the approaches that are used to inform the strategies applied in the process of teaching and learning. In enhancing knowledge and development through text materials and instructions, schema theory approaches to knowledge and the role of prior knowledge in comprehension are discussed with reference to how they enhance teaching and learning. Overall, the discussion demonstrates the convergence between CLT and the schema theory and their focus on knowledge, prior and current, to ensure that teaching emphasizes meeting of an objective from an individual learner’s point of view
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Should Religion or Ethics be taught to Kids in School
Should Religion or Ethics be taught to Kids in School?
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Should Religion or Ethics be taught to Kids in School?
According to some, religion and ethics are a vital part when molding a child to become a respectable member of society. Religion, through texts such as the Bible, contains teachings on real-life situations and how to act in an upright manner when confronted by them. On the other hand, some argue that children should grow up unshackled by any precepts and should be free to explore and in the process, develop their value systems and a religious choice. I feel that the former is the more useful practice as I will prove based on several premises laid out in this paper.
Ethics and religion are beneficial in the long run for any individual. Religion, in many cases in the USA, is Christianity. It espouses appreciable values such as kindness, honesty, and humility. Surely, no one likes a spoilt child or a sly or untrustworthy adult. Christian teachings to children seek to uproot such practices that when allowed to grow, will create a population of undependable adults. Ethics are the cornerstone of productive work environments in workplaces all over the USA. It is crucial to impart concepts such as fair treatment of peers, accountability and discipline in kids to make it second nature to them as they also increase in knowledge and prepare to enter the workforce and become the next crop which the countries rely on. Teachers should similarly seek to demonstrate these ethics to their children in their dealings to prevent a situation where the kids get mixed messages. It is difficult to find fault in teaching kids concepts that are universally acceptable, and that will have them in good stead in the future
Children have an ability to learn and incorporate teachings at a faster rate in their formative years as compared to when they are entering adulthood. When in the age bracket of between five and late teenage, their brains are growing and can integrate new information that is unlikely to be replicated throughout their lifetimes. It is a ripe time to be teaching them good morals and giving them a basis of spiritual nourishment which they are likely to need for the entirety of their lives. If for instance, they learn that misdeeds often have adverse consequences, they are unlikely to perpetrate actions such as embezzlement if entrusted with financial duties much later in their professional career. On the other hand, seminars and workshops will hardly teach a middle-aged executive that it is wrong to promote their childhood friend at the expense of more deserving workers within the organization provided they can get away with it. It is probably something they started doing as soon as they got into management and no longer feel remorseful about. Therefore, it is only beneficial to instill ethical values into children as opposed to waiting to teach adults who have already developed strong positions on some issues.
In conclusion, it is essential to teach religion and ethics to children because they promote values that we all desire to have and see in others and because that is the age at which humans are most receptive to new information. Failure to do that may result in a population of self-serving adults who will likely doom the country to fail.
Comparative Analysis of India and China’s Growth as Asian Emerging Powers in International Trade
Comparative Analysis of India and China’s Growth as Asian Emerging Powers in International Trade
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China and India are the two main economies on the globe that are developing at the highest rates. China and India are on a shared economic trajectory that is strikingly different from the slow rise of the Western economy (The World Bank 2022). In spite of the fact that private investment is stagnant or declining, China and India’s fast rising economies are characterized by huge growth in governmental investment (Baylis, 2020). Western countries, on the other hand, favor private engagement and do not expect major increases in government investment in the near future. As a result of their sheer size, both countries are economic behemoths, and if they continue to develop at the rates seen in recent years (decades in the case of China), it is clear that their transformation will have far-reaching consequences, not only for themselves, but also for the rest of the world. There have already been numerous market opportunities created as a result of the increased purchasing power and increased competitiveness of these mega-economies as producers of specific commodities, as well as a slew of new market opportunities created by their increased purchasing power and increased competitiveness as producers of specific commodities (Tellis & Mirski, 2013). This essay will compare and contrast India and China, in their rise to economic development, market strategies, government involvement, and other critical areas that have derailed or propelled the nations to the current dominance. To create goals and processes that anticipate change and allow for the exploration of new prospects while minimizing any abnormalities that may occur in subsectors unable to manage the difficulties, it is critical to analyze the anticipated effect of the changes.
China’s Economic Rise
Prior to the implementation of economic reforms and trade liberalization in China some 40 years ago, the country’s economy was underdeveloped, slow, heavily centralized, and inefficient. According to the World Bank (2021), China’s GDP has grown at an average annual rate of 9.5 percent since 1979, making it the major economy with the highest sustained growth since its openness to global trade and investment, as well as the implementation of free-market reforms, by 2018. As a result of China’s ability to double its GDP every eight years, The World Bank (2022) report that an estimated 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty in the country. China has eclipsed the United States as the world’s largest economy, manufacturer, seller of products, and holder of foreign exchange reserves, surpassing the United States in all categories (on a purchasing power parity basis) (Baylis, 2020). As a result, China has surpassed Japan in terms of importance as a commercial partner for the United States. In terms of goods trade, China is the most significant trading partner for the United States. It is the country’s largest source of imports and third-largest export market. China is also the largest foreign investor in US Treasury bonds, which helps to reduce the country’s debt while also keeping interest rates low in the long run.
China’s real GDP growth dipped to about 6 percent in 2019, and then expected to fall to 5 percent by 2025, according to Schindler Jepson, and Cui (2020). This is due to the country’s economy maturing, which reached 14 percent in 2008 (Hopewell, 2015). Recent years have seen economic development stall, and the Chinese leadership has come to terms with the fact that this is the “new normal.” It has, as a result, begun to shift toward a new growth model that is less dependent on fixed investment and exports than it is on private consumption, household spending, services, and innovation to drive economic expansion (Gani & Ahmad, 2020). Policy changes are needed in order to avoid getting further into the “middle-income trap,” defined by Glawe and Wagner (2020) as the point where a nation’s economic and industrial growth starts to decline significantly due to the government’s inability to accept new opportunities for growth, such as science and technology innovations and advancements, and globalization.
Chinese authorities have launched high-profile initiatives, including the Made in China 2025 campaign, to ensure that the nation’s manufacturing sector and the industrial economy are improved and overhauled in a way that positions the nation as a significant international player in a number of distinct industries. Made in China 2025 is one of these projects that are spearheading a new era in economic growth in China, led by a focus on private spending, household consumption, and science and technological innovations. As a consequence of these industrial endeavors, Li and Pogodin (2019) note that an increasing number of individuals are already becoming alarmed about China’s intentions to reduce its dependency on external technologies (including by barring foreign enterprises from operating in China) and ultimately conquer international markets.
India’s Economic Rise
The country of India is expected to rise to become one of the world’s top three economic powers over the next decade. The world Bank (2022) places India’s economy to increase by approximately 8% in the 2023 fiscal year, unmoved from last year’s predictions because the recovery from COVID-19 effects and related issues are yet to attain broad-based status (World Bank, 2022). This exponential growth is owed to India’s strength as a democratic nation and worldwide alliances, which have propelled it to become the world’s fastest-growing major economy since independence. According to projections by May, Nölke, and Brink (2019) in response to the better economic situation, investment has grown across the board in a wide range of economic sectors. With the introduction of the production-linked incentive plan, a plethora of new opportunities for private investment will be opened up as a result of an increase in government expenditure. The most effective way to improve the Indian economy is for the government to offer constant, proactive, graded, and calibrated assistance to the people.
In response to several government initiatives, such as Digital India (a science and technology innovative countrywide policy) and Make in India (a focus on manufacturing to keep up with competitors such as China), the number of multinational firms establishing operations in India have increased tremendously (Borah, 2021). The Make in India programme was created by the government in order to enhance the country’s manufacturing industry and the buying power of the average Indian. Investors will see an increase in demand and growth as a result of the Make in India initiative in the long run. The Indian government intends to expand the manufacturing sector’s proportion of GDP from 18 percent to 29 percent by 2022 as a result of the Make in India and the Digital India innovative projects (Borah, 2021), which are now under state-sponsored implementation (Tyagi, 2019). The Digital India plan, developed by the government, includes three components: the development of digital infrastructure, the provision of services through digital channels, and the promotion of digital literacy among the general public. The Indian consumer economy is forecasted by the World Bank (2022) to surpass the United States in size by 2025, owing to the government efforts to increase private consumption and manufacturing and reduce the dependence on foreign investment.
Differences Between China and India’s Economic and Political Models Towards Growth
In recent years, there has been no doubt that the global power balance has moved to the east, with the U.S. being the most significant beneficiary of this transformation. There can never be enough emphasis placed on the fact that India and China’s fast economic and political expansions have had a significant impact on the modern world in the fields of politics, economics, demographics, and sociological developments. In recent years, the two countries have restored a degree of world domination that was not witnessed since the mid-19th century, thanks to their massive populations and abundant natural resources (Sen, 2021). The fast economic successes in which both India and China have had in recent times, China since the political and economic changes of 1978 and India since its changeover in the early 1990s, have contributed to Asia’s precipitous rise to unparalleled heights of wealth and prosperity. Even if a majority of scholars and academicians are interested in the parallels and variances between India and China, what is more essential is the distinction between the two nations and the disparities that exist between them. The most important point to remember is that the political economies of the two nations are radically different from each other. While China is a single-party autocratic state, India has the world’s largest democratic parliamentary system, with a population of 1.2 billion people (Sen, 2021). As seen in the case of India, state-owned companies have been decreased, whereas state-owned corporations have been developed in China as a result of changes that mirror a pseudo-free-market centrally planned economy (Sattar et al., 2018). The capitalist West has been courted by India, while China has attempted to disrupt this wooing by courting the communist East of the world. Understanding how China and India have achieved such enormous achievement at the same time while maintaining their different cultures will give essential insights into the entire process.
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When it comes to the Chinese marketplace, the government maintains a strong and visible presence. Despite the fact that they no longer control a large portion of the economy, China’s state-owned businesses continue to wield great power. Specifically, the Communist Party has indeed been assigned a position within private enterprises, and an unprecedented number of independent corporations have changed their corporate entities in recent years to reflect this new role. The Chinese government has, in reality, retained a substantial element of its centrally planned economy. Crane et al. (2018) assert that China pursues a purely communist growth model, but it wraps it up inside a capitalist guise in order to disguise the degree to which the government gets involved in the economy. While the country has taken advantage of market dynamics whenever it was favorable, it has also decided to disregard them when it was not. At the price of a high degree of political volatility, China’s visibly hybrid system has delivered significant economic successes.
Undoubtedly, India’s growth and ultimate rise to global status have been by far more gradual, but it has still been significant, in comparison to China’s pace and status. Since the country gained its independence, India’s status as a functional parliamentary democracy has remained unaffected by the passage of time. During the 1990s, India’s economy grew to become the third biggest in the world, overtaking both the United States and the United Kingdom (Prime, Subrahmanyam, & Lin, 2012). This was done by more typical economic developments in the Western world. Since 1991, there have been hints of improvement in the Indian economy. Following the reforms, India’s real GDP per capita expanded by 3.5 times, and the country overtook the United States to become the world’s third largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity, surpassing the United Kingdom (Prime, Subrahmanyam, & Lin, 2012). India has grown closer to the exact forces that it formerly reviled, and it will continue to do so in the future. Between 1950 and 1960, India was an original member of the Non-Aligned Movement, which was critical in putting together a coalition of governments that were opposed to both American and Soviet control (Shahbaz, Bhattacharya, & Mahalik, 2018). In spite of the fact that India has accepted core capitalist economic principles since 1991, it has done so in a variety of ways, including by opening its markets to international trade while simultaneously pursuing deregulation and privatization measures. Recently, India has grown closer to the United States, as Indian leaders are concerned that a stronger China may become more forceful in the region (Gani & Ahmad, 2020). As a result of its current demographic makeup, the country is virtually undoubtedly poised to continue its upward trajectory into the next century. Indians are younger than their Chinese counterparts, and the rate of private savings in the country is growing. One of the issues is the over-reliance on capital-intensive manufacturing, which is trailing behind labor-intensive industry in terms of productivity.
Conclusion
The economies of China and India have expanded at a very high rate in the recent past. While the two were early adopters of communist economic principles, they have mostly adopted different policies and political and economic models. China’s government uses a centrally planned economy while incorporating elements of capitalism, when possible, whereas India favors a more classic free-market structure. Both states have diametrically opposed economic and political frameworks, as well as diametrically opposed international objectives. The impact of their rise to superpower status on the rest of the globe is still unknown. India’s and China’s ascent will undoubtedly be one of the most important milestones in the planet’s economics and politics landscape.
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