Models and Procedures: A Classroom Study of Teaching for Transfer.

Wollman, Warren

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Models and Procedures: A Classroom Study of Teaching for Transfer.

Wollman, Warren

School Science and Mathematics, v83 n2 p122-32 Feb 1983

The pendulum and balance beam were studied. The principal question addressed was whether students could substantially and quickly benefit from a teaching strategy explicitly designed to promote transfer. About half the subjects could acquire in brief time a procedure for transferring knowledge to novel tasks. (MP)

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Laboratory Training, Mathematical Applications, Problem Solving, Science Curriculum, Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Transfer of Training

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