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Direct linkOpfer, John E.; Thompson, Clarissa A. – Child Development, 2008
Spontaneous transfer of learning is often difficult to elicit. This finding may be widespread partly because pretests proactively interfere with transfer. To test this hypothesis, 7-year-olds' transfer was examined across 2 numerical tasks (number line estimation and categorization) in which similar representational changes have been observed. As…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Elementary School Students, Pretesting, Computation
