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Direct linkXin Lin; Sarah R. Powell – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2025
This study examined how word-problem characteristics influenced students' learning and retention of word-problem knowledge during and after an intervention. The participants were 221 fourth-grade students (average age at pretest = 8.8 years) who experienced word-problem difficulties (WPD) and had received a word-problem intervention in third…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Intervention, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Leahy, Wayne; Hanham, José; Sweller, John – Educational Psychology Review, 2015
The testing effect occurs when learners who are tested rather than relearning material perform better on a final test than those who relearn. Based on cognitive load theory, it was predicted that the testing effect may not be obtained when the material being learned is high in element interactivity. Three experiments investigated conditions of the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Testing, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedBoykin, A. Wade – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1977
On each of 10 trials, 80 college students were presented with a different set of five anagram tasks varying in complexity. Half the subjects rated the tasks for the amount of interestingness and half for the amount of pleasantness. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Charts, Difficulty Level, Experimental Psychology, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedPeled, Zimra; Wittrock, M. C. – Instructional Science, 1990
Discusses how students generate meanings for mathematical word problems, develops a generative predicational model to account for students' comprehension of word problems, and describes an empirical study of Israeli sixth graders that was designed to test the model. Talk aloud protocols of the students are analyzed, and hypotheses tested are…
Descriptors: Coherence, Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
