Approaches to Foster Transfer of Formal Principles: Which Route to Take?

ABSTRACT: Enabling learners to transfer knowledge about formal principles to new problems is a major aim of science and mathematics education, which, however, is notoriously difficult to reach. Previous research advocates different approaches of how to introduce principles to foster the transfer of knowledge about formal principles. One approach suggests teaching a generic formalism of the principles. Another approach suggests presenting (at least) two concrete cases instantiating the principle. A third approach suggests presenting a generic formalism accompanied by a case. As yet, though, empirical results regarding the transfer potential of these approaches are mixed and difficult to integrate as the three approaches have rarely been tested competitively. Furthermore, the approaches have been eval

SUBMITTER: Schalk L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4752471 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature