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Improving Problem Solving With Subgoal Labels In Expository Text And Worked Examples, Lauren Margulieux, Richard Catrambone
Improving Problem Solving With Subgoal Labels In Expository Text And Worked Examples, Lauren Margulieux, Richard Catrambone
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In highly procedural problem solving, procedures are typically taught with context-independent expository text that conceptually describes a procedure and context-dependent worked examples that concretely demonstrate a procedure. Subgoal labels have been used in worked examples to improve problem solving performance. The effect of subgoal labels in expository text, however, has not been explored. The present study examined the efficacy of subgoal labeled expository text and worked examples for programming education. The results show that learners who received subgoal labels in both the text and example are able to solve novel problems better than those who did not. In addition, subgoal …