Completing steps in partially worked-out examples leads students to underestimate their test performance and report higher mental effort than studying fully worked examples¶

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q3 i? Secondary students given completion problems predicted lower performance than they actually achieved and reported significantly more mental effort than students given fully worked examples. → Tamara van Gog & Vincent Hoogerheide & Milou van Harsel 2020

Evidence¶

Tamara van Gog & Vincent Hoogerheide & Milou van Harsel 2020¶

Tamara van Gog & Vincent Hoogerheide & Milou van Harsel. (2020). The Role of Mental Effort in Fostering Self-Regulated Learning with Problem-Solving Tasks. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09544-y

q3 · i? · review · r2

The review reports the Baars et al. (2013) experiment on heredity problems comparing fully worked-out examples with partially worked-out completion problems: completion students underestimated performance and "reported investing significantly more mental effort". No effect size is printed.

"In the completion condition, students' predictions of their own test performance were lower than their actual performance. They also reported investing significantly more mental effort than students in the fully worked-out example condition."

Discussion¶

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