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Direct linkCheng-Wen He; Logan Fiorella; Paula P. Lemons – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
This study tested competing theories about the effectiveness of different instructional sequences for learners with different levels of prior knowledge. Across two classroom experiments, undergraduates learned about noncovalent interactions in biochemistry by either receiving explicit instruction before problem-solving (I-PS group) or engaging in…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Problem Solving, Prior Learning, Learning Processes
