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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
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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 …
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
Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
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 …