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Lotte van der Haar; Guthrie Gray-Lobe; Michael Kremer; Joost de Laat – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
This study reports the findings from a year-long randomized evaluation assessing the impact of assigning 62 classrooms in Nigeria to receive either blocked or interleaved math problem sets. Blocked practice sessions focused on a single skill at a time. Interleaved problem sets alternated between different skills within a practice session. On tests…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Retention (Psychology), Outcomes of Education
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Boekaerts, Monique; Rozendaal, Jeroen S. – Learning and Instruction, 2010
The present study used multiple calibration indices to capture the complex picture of fifth graders' calibration of feeling of confidence in mathematics. Specifically, the effects of gender, type of mathematical problem, instruction method, and time of measurement (before and after problem solving) on calibration skills were investigated. Fourteen…
Descriptors: Program Design, Problem Solving, Grade 5, Mathematics Instruction