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Dinsmore, Daniel L.; Baggetta, Peter; Doyle, Stephanie; Loughlin, Sandra M. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that transfer ability (positive and negative) varies depending on the nature of the problems, using the knowledge transfer matrix, as well as being dependent on the individual differences of the learner. A total of 178 participants from the United States and New Zealand completed measures of prior…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transfer of Training, Prior Learning, Pattern Recognition
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Renkl, Alexander; Atkinson, Robert K.; Maier, Uwe H.; Staley, Richard – Journal of Experimental Education, 2002
Proposed a successive integration of problem-solving elements into example study until learners solved problems on their own and tested the effectiveness of this "fading" method against a traditional method of using example-problem pairs. Results with 20 ninth graders in Germany, 54 U.S. college students, and 45 U.S. college students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools, Learning