Aiding Transfer in Statistics: Examining the Use of Conceptually Oriented Equations and Elaborations during Subgoal Learning.
Aiding Transfer in Statistics: Examining the Use of Conceptually Oriented Equations and Elaborations during Subgoal Learning.
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协助统计迁移:检查子目标学习期间概念导向方程和阐述的使用。
DOI:
10.1037/0022-0663.95.4.762
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发表时间:
2003
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
M. M. Merrill
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作者:
R. Atkinson;R. Catrambone;M. M. Merrill
Consistent with a subgoal-learning approach, the authors hypothesized that learners who studied statistics examples with conceptually oriented equations would transfer more successfully to novel problems compared with learners who studied examples using computationally oriented equations. The conceptually oriented equations were designed to capture the relationship between the concept and its computation, whereas the computationally oriented equations were designed to simplify calculations. This hypothesis was supported across 2 experiments. The authors also examined the implications of providing learners with elaborations of the procedures illustrated in the examples either before or after they studied them. The location of the elaborations had no apparent effect. Overall, these results demonstrate that solution procedures organized around appropriate conceptually oriented subgoals are easier to adapt for novel problems than procedures built around computationally friendly, but conceptually opaque, steps. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)