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Lauren A. Mason; Abigail Miller; Gregory Hughes; Holly A. Taylor – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
False alarming, or detecting an error when there is not one, is a pervasive problem across numerous industries. The present study investigated the role of elaboration, or additional information about non-error differences in complex visual displays, for mitigating false error responding. In Experiment 1, learners studied errors and non-error…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods, Visual Aids
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Kwaku Adu-Gyamfi; Kayla Chandler; Anthony Thompson – School Science and Mathematics, 2025
The challenge posed by algebra story problems creates a significant hurdle for many students, transcending both the mathematical content of the problem and the specific instructional background received. This study offers a distinctive contribution to the existing literature by focusing on the cognitive conditions essential for comprehension in…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Barriers, Cognitive Processes
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Hai Li; Wanli Xing; Chenglu Li; Wangda Zhu; Simon Woodhead – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2025
Knowledge tracing (KT) is a method to evaluate a student's knowledge state (KS) based on their historical problem-solving records by predicting the next answer's binary correctness. Although widely applied to closed-ended questions, it lacks a detailed option tracing (OT) method for assessing multiple-choice questions (MCQs). This paper introduces…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Problem Solving