Learning to avoid biased reasoning: effects of interleaved practice and worked examples

The Effects of Worked Examples on Transfer of Statistical Reasoning

Research suggests that guided methods of instruction, such as worked examples, reduce the cognitive load placed on learners, which allows them to learn new information more efficiently and effectively. The current study examined the effect of worked examples on transfer of statistical reasoning, as compared to traditional study techniques. Students from an introductory college-level psychology ...

Learning Problem Solving Heuristics from Worked Examples

Much human learning of mathematics takes place from worked examples, yet this is a subject that has not received much study in Cognitive Science. A major problem is to ensure that a model can learn in a general way, and not be limited to a small subset of mathematics, such as Calculus. This paper describes a computational model of how students learn problem solving heuristics. The model is impl...

Learning from Examples: Instructional Principles from the Worked Examples Research

Worked examples are instructional devices that provide an expert's problem solution for a learner to study. Worked-examples research is a cognitive-experimental program that has relevance to classroom instruction and the broader educational research community. A framework for organizing the findings of this research is proposed, leading to instructional design principles. For instance, one inst...

How much is too much? Learning and motivation effects of adding instructional explanations to worked examples

A central goal of the learning sciences is to discover principles that determine the optimal amount of instructional assistance to support robust learning (Koedinger & Aleven, 2007). We examined learning outcomes from providing and withholding stepwise instructional explanations as students studied worked examples and solved physics problems. We hypothesized that students would acquire more con...

Learning programming via worked-examples : the effects of cognitive load and learning styles