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A Field Experiment on Mnemonic and Conceptual Understanding among Chinese Elementary School Students
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Direct linkKitty K. Y. Tsang; Shui-fong Lam – Chinese Education & Society, 2025
This study compared the effectiveness of two encoding strategies (peg system vs. conceptual understanding) on serial learning. Sixty Chinese 5th graders from a primary school in Hong Kong participated in training on the two strategies in two consecutive weeks. While half of the students learned peg system in the first week and conceptual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mnemonics, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 5
Star, Jon R. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2005
In this article, I argue for a renewed focus in mathematics education research on procedural knowledge. I make three main points: (1) The development of students' procedural knowledge has not received a great deal of attention in recent research; (2) one possible explanation for this deficiency is that current characterizations of conceptual and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Concept Formation, Scientific Methodology, Sequential Learning
