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Paré-Blagoev, Juliana; Booth, Julie; Elliot, Andrew; Koedinger, Ken – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
As highlighted by the National Math Panel Report (2008), consistent results from laboratory studies have demonstrated that interleaving worked examples with problems to solve improves learning for novices. The purpose of this work is to create materials and tests that can be used flexibly in classrooms and which employ worked examples interleaved…
Descriptors: Assignments, Teaching Methods, Demonstrations (Educational), Classroom Techniques
Stricker, Lawrence J.; Ward, William C. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
Laboratory experiments by Steele and Aronson (1995) found that African-American subjects' performance on difficult verbal items, described as a verbal problem-solving task, was adversely affected when they were asked about their ethnicity just before working on the items. These results were attributed to stereotype threat. Asking about ethnicity…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, Test Items, Problem Solving