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Can "You" Make a Difference? Investigating Whether Perspective-Taking Improves Performance on Inconsistent Mathematical Word Problems
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de Koning, Björn B.; van de Schoot, Menno – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
Pronouns encouraging a second-person perspective (e.g., "you/your") affect peoples' mental representations constructed while reading and improve learning. The present study applied these insights to a domain in that such pronoun effects have yet been unexplored: mathematical word problem solving. Specifically, we encouraged a…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Perspective Taking, Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving