PROBLEMS OF ACHIEVING DESIRABLE MOTIVATIONAL AND COGNITIVE EFFECTS INCOMPLEX SITUATED LEARNING

It was investigated to what extent concepts of motivational psychology are taken into consideration in theories of complex situated learning . As an example, the anchored instruction theory was chosen. It turned out that within theories of situated learning the goal of adequately motivating learners was dealt.with in a dysfunctional manner. As a res ult suboptimal. interactions between learners and learning environment leading to unfavorable motivational and cognitive effects can crop up . The consideration of domain specific aspects is indicated as a metho d of preventing features of the learning environment from inducing an ineffective direction of motivation. Therefore normative decisions hav e to be made, especially concerning the specification of learning goal s.