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Peer reviewedBraaksma, Martine A. H.; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; van den Bergh, Huub – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2002
This study examined the effects of similarity in competence between model and observer on the effectiveness of observational learning in argumentative writing. Results are consistent with the similarity hypothesis: weak learners learn more from focusing their observations on weak models, whereas better learners learn more from focusing on good…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Processes, Observational Learning
