Author Question: Suppose you learned to solve arithmetic problems in school using a specific procedure. According to ... (Read 45 times)

daltonest1984 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Suppose you learned to solve arithmetic problems in school using a specific procedure. According to research on learning in and out of school by Nunes et al., what will happen when you encounter a similar problem outside of school:

a. you will try to apply the school-taught procedure but will probably make a clerical error
b. you will correctly apply the school-taught procedure
c. you will use a procedure that is not the school-taught procedure
d. you will be stuck and thus will not use any procedure at all

Question 2

Britton and Gulgoz rewrote a passage about the history of the Vietnam War by adding coherence cues such as:

a. stating the instructional objective at the start of the passage
b. highlighting the major terms and providing a glossary with their definitions
c. rewriting sentences so they repeated a linking word from the previous sentence and using the same word to refer to the same concept throughout the passage
d. arranging sentences so they begin with the new part rather than the old part