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Haussler, Peter – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1978
Structural learning theory and the Rasch model measured learning gain, retention, and transfer in 1,037 students, grades 7-10. Students learned nine functional relationships with either spontaneous or synthetic algorithms. The Rasch model gave the better description of the data. The hypothesis that the synthetic method was superior was refuted.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Algorithms, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries