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The Trouble with Transfer: Insights from Microgenetic Changes in the Representation of Numerical Magnitude
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Opfer, John E.; Thompson, Clarissa A. – Child Development, 2008
Spontaneous transfer of learning is often difficult to elicit. This finding may be widespread partly because pretests proactively interfere with transfer. To test this hypothesis, 7-year-olds' transfer was examined across 2 numerical tasks (number line estimation and categorization) in which similar representational changes have been observed. As…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Elementary School Students, Pretesting, Computation
Learning to Solve Class-Inclusion Problems: The Roles of Quantification and Recognition of Contradiction.
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Judd, Susan A.; Mervis, Carolyn B. – Child Development, 1979
The results of two experiments showed that five year olds can learn to solve class-inclusion problems if they are forced to consider the contradiction between their incorrect answers and their correct counting of the superordinate and subordinate classes. (JMB)
Descriptors: Classification, Computation, Conflict Resolution, Early Childhood Education