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Hallinen, Nicole R.; Sprague, Lauren N.; Blair, Kristen P.; Adler, Rebecca M.; Newcombe, Nora S. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
Background: One criterion of adaptive learning is appropriate generalization to new instances based on the original learning context and avoiding overgeneralization. Appropriate generalization requires understanding what features of a solution are applicable in a new context and whether the new context requires modifications or a new approach. In…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Algebra, Generalization, Mathematics Skills
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Cromley, Jennifer G.; Weisberg, Steven M.; Dai, Ting; Newcombe, Nora S.; Schunn, Christian D.; Massey, Christine; Merlino, F. Joseph – Science Education, 2016
We explored whether existing curricula can be adapted to increase students' skills at comprehending and learning from diagrams using an intervention delivered by regular middle-school teachers in intact classrooms. Ninety-two teachers in three states implemented our modified materials over six curricular units from two publishers: "Holt"…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Visual Aids, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Science
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Möhring, Wenke; Newcombe, Nora S.; Frick, Andrea – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Spatial scaling is an important prerequisite for many spatial tasks and involves an understanding of how distances in different-sized spaces correspond. Previous studies have found evidence for such an understanding in preschoolers; however, the mental processes involved remain unclear. In the present study, we investigated whether children and…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Scaling, Preschool Children, Adults
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Bergey, Bradley W.; Cromley, Jennifer G.; Kirchgessner, Mandy L.; Newcombe, Nora S. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Background and Aim: Spaced restudy has been typically tested with written learning materials, but restudy with visual representations in actual classrooms is under-researched. We compared the effects of two spaced restudy interventions: A Diagram-Based Restudy (DBR) warm-up condition and a business-as-usual Text-Based Restudy (TBR) warm-up…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Intervention, Teaching Methods, High School Students
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Bergey, Bradley W.; Cromley, Jennifer G.; Newcombe, Nora S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
There is growing evidence that targeted instruction can improve diagram comprehension, yet one of the skills identified in the diagram comprehension literature--coordinating multiple representations--has rarely been directly taught to students and tested as a classroom intervention. We created a Coordinating Multiple Representation (CMR)…
Descriptors: High School Students, Biology, Science Instruction, Pretests Posttests
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Newcombe, Nora S.; Frick, Andrea – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2010
Spatial representation and thinking have evolutionary importance for any mobile organism. In addition, they help reasoning in domains that are not obviously spatial, for example, through the use of graphs and diagrams. This article reviews the literature suggesting that mental spatial transformation abilities, while present in some precursory form…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Spatial Ability, Early Childhood Education
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Cromley, Jennifer G.; Perez, Tony C.; Fitzhugh, Shannon L.; Newcombe, Nora S.; Wills, Theodore W.; Tanaka, Jacqueline C. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2013
The authors tested whether students can be taught to better understand conventional representations in diagrams, photographs, and other visual representations in science textbooks. The authors developed a teacher-delivered, workbook-and-discussion-based classroom instructional method called Conventions of Diagrams (COD). The authors trained 1…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Textbooks, Biology, Grade 10