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| Transfer of Training | 1 |
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| Journal of Educational… | 1 |
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| Mayer, Richard E. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedMayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
Nonprogrammers learned a computer programming language and took a transfer posttest. Subjects who were given pretraining with a model of the computer before learning performed better on novel transfer and worse on near transfer relative to no-pretraining subjects. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: College Students, Computers, Learning Processes, Models
