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Peer reviewedShumway, Richard J. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1974
The effects of negative instances on the acquisition of the mathematical concepts of commutativity and associativity were examined. Also investigated were possible transfer effects that might result from the use of negative instances. For 64 ninth-grade subjects, results favored the treatments containing mixed instances and supported the transfer…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Generalization
Download full textZimmerman, Barry J.; Rosenthal, Ted L. – 1971
The effects of observing a model and of providing a response rule on the learning, transfer, and retention of a dial-reading, numerical concept were studied in 144 third-graders. Different experimenters conducted the immediate learning procedures versus the measurements of retention. No extrinsic reinforcers were promised or dispensed. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Elementary Education
