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Peer reviewedDavis-Dorsey, Judy; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
The impact of personalizing mathematical word problems and rewording them for explicitness was tested with 68 second and 59 fifth graders. Second graders benefited from personalization and rewording in combination; fifth graders benefited from personalization, not rewording. Personalization makes problems more motivating and easier to represent…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Adaptive Testing, Age Differences, Comparative Testing
