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Peer reviewedTennyson, Robert D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Results indicated that negative instances were an integral part of concept acquisiton. The relationship between the positive and negative instances was based upon similarity of irrelevant attributes and sentence difficulty. (Author)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Grade 7, Relevance (Information Retrieval)
Peer reviewedHicks, Robert A.; Packwood, James – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Grade 1, Grade 2, Paired Associate Learning
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
