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ERIC Number: EJ289036
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983
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The Role of Explanation in Learning Elementary Probability.
Myers, Jerome L.; And Others
Journal of Educational Psychology, v75 n3 p374-81 Jun 1983
Forty-eight participants read one of three texts (high explanatory, low explanatory, and standard) that varied in the degree of explanation of basic concepts of elementary probability. Performance test data showed that participants in the high-explanatory test condition did equally well on both formula and story problems. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Processes, Logic, Mathematical Formulas, Probability, Reading Research, Statistics, Textbook Research, Textbooks
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Explanations; Story Problems (Mathematics)