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Peer reviewedDi Vesta, Francis J.; Peverly, Stephen T. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
Using 198 college students, this study investigated the effects on performance of four variables in a concept-learning task. The variables were (1) passive and active learning; (2) contextual specificity and variability; (3) rule-examples sequences; and (4) near and far transfers as critical outcomes. Results are discussed in terms of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Teaching, Discovery Learning, Encoding (Psychology)
