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When Wrong Is Right: The Instructional Power Of Multiple Conceptions, Lauren Margulieux, Paul Denny, Kathryn Cunningham, Michael Deutsch, Benjamin R. Shapiro
When Wrong Is Right: The Instructional Power Of Multiple Conceptions, Lauren Margulieux, Paul Denny, Kathryn Cunningham, Michael Deutsch, Benjamin R. Shapiro
Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
For many decades, educational communities, including computing education, have debated the value of telling students what they need to know (i.e., direct instruction) compared to guiding them to construct knowledge themselves (i.e., constructivism). Comparisons of these two instructional approaches have inconsistent results. Direct instruction can be more efficient for short-term performance but worse for retention and transfer. Constructivism can produce better retention and transfer, but this outcome is unreliable. To contribute to this debate, we propose a new theory to better explain these research results. Our theory, multiple conceptions theory, states that learners develop better conceptual knowledge when they are …
Effect Of Implementing Subgoals In Code.Org’S Intro To Programming Unit In Computer Science Principles, Lauren Margulieux, Briana Baker Morrison, Baker Franke, Harivololona Ramilison
Effect Of Implementing Subgoals In Code.Org’S Intro To Programming Unit In Computer Science Principles, Lauren Margulieux, Briana Baker Morrison, Baker Franke, Harivololona Ramilison
Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
The subgoal learning framework has improved performance for novice programmers in higher education, but it has only started to be applied and studied in K-12 (primary/secondary). Programming education in K-12 is growing, and many international initiatives are attempting to increase participation, including curricular initiatives like Computer Science Principles and non-profit organizations like Code.org. Given that subgoal learning is designed to help students with no prior knowledge, we designed and implemented subgoals in the introduction to programming unit in Code.org’s Computer Science Principles course. The redesigned unit includes subgoal-oriented instruction and subgoal-themed pre-written comments that students could add to their programming …
Varying Effects Of Subgoal Labeled Expository Text In Programming, Chemistry, And Statistics, Lauren Margulieux, Richard Catrambone, Laura M. Schaeffer
Varying Effects Of Subgoal Labeled Expository Text In Programming, Chemistry, And Statistics, Lauren Margulieux, Richard Catrambone, Laura M. Schaeffer
Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
Originally intended as a replication study, this study discusses differences in problem solving performance among different domains caused by the same instructional intervention. The learning sciences acknowledges similarities in the learners’ cognitive architecture that allow interventions to apply across domains, but it also argues that each domain has characteristics that might affect how interventions impact learning. The present study uses an instructional design technique that had previously improved learners’ problem solving performance in programming: subgoal labeled expository text and subgoal labeled worked examples. It intended to replicate this effect for solving problems in statistics and chemistry. However, each of the …