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| Concept Formation | 1 |
| Difficulty Level | 1 |
| Discovery Learning | 1 |
| Fundamental Concepts | 1 |
| Primary Education | 1 |
| Recall (Psychology) | 1 |
| Retention (Psychology) | 1 |
| Teaching Methods | 1 |
| Transfer of Training | 1 |
| Verbal Learning | 1 |
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| Journal of Educational… | 1 |
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| Francis, Evelyn W. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedFrancis, Evelyn W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Results indicated that discovery subjects took significantly longer than verbal reception subjects in the first-, third-, and sixth-grades to reach the original learning criterion. Verbal reception subjects generally demonstrated performance which was superior to discovery subjects on all measures of retention and transfer. (Author/BJG)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Discovery Learning, Fundamental Concepts
