Transfer of domain-specific problem-solving procedures.

Bassok, Miriam·1990·Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Abstract

Two experiments examined transfer of mathematical problem-solving procedures learned in content-rich quantitative domains to isomorphic algebra word problems dealing with other contents

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