Project Details
Projekt
Learning from worked-out examples: Fostering the integration of multiple representations
Applicant
Professor Dr. Alexander Renkl
Subject Area
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Term
from 2003 to 2006
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5414358
Learning from worked-out examples plays an important role in cognitive skill acquisition in well-structured domains such as mathematics. In addition, research has provided many guidelines how to structure example-based learning. However, there is hardly any research on worked-out examples in which multiple representations are employed with the instructional intention to foster deep understanding and flexible knowledge. Against this backgrond, worked-out examples with solutions in multiple representational formats (domain: stochastics/combinatorics) are employed in this project. The overall research question refers to the following issues: Can the understanding of solution procedures be fostered by the employment of multiple representations that are combined with instructional means that aim to foster the integration of different representations? Such instructional means are a) self-explanation prompts that direct the learners to identify the relations between different representations and b) corresponding instructional explanations. These issues are addressed by two experimental studies.
DFG Programme
Research Grants
International Connection
Netherlands
