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Fiacconi, Chris M.; Mitton, Evan E.; Laursen, Skylar J.; Skinner, Jasmyn – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Judgments of learning (JOLs) refer to explicit predictions regarding the likelihood of remembering newly acquired information on a later test of memory. In recent years, there has been considerable interest in understanding the processes that underlie such judgments. Recent theorizing on this matter has characterized JOLs as inferential in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Memory, Tests, Cues
Rau, Martina A.; Herder, Tiffany – Grantee Submission, 2021
Abundant prior research has compared effects of physical and virtual manipulatives on students' conceptual learning. However, most prior research has been based on conceptual salience theory; that is, it has explained mode effects by the manipulative's capability to draw students' attention to conceptually relevant (visual or haptic) features.…
Descriptors: Manipulative Materials, Undergraduate Students, Computer Simulation, Nuclear Physics
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Son, Ji Y.; Doumas, Leonidas A. A.; Goldstone, Robert L. – Journal of Problem Solving, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to explore how and when verbal labels facilitate relational reasoning and transfer. We review the research and theory behind two ways words might direct attention to relational information: (1) words generically invite people to compare and thus highlight relations (the Generic Tokens [GT] hypothesis), and/or (2) words…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Relationship, Vocabulary, Transfer of Training