Concreteness fading guides learners to strip away extraneous concrete properties and distill generic, generalizable properties¶

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Subclaims¶

q1 i? A theoretical benefit of concreteness fading is guiding learners to strip away extraneous concrete properties and distill the generic, generalizable properties. → Fyfe 2014

Evidence¶

Fyfe 2014¶

Fyfe, E. R., McNeil, N. M., Son, J. Y., & Goldstone, R. L. (2014). Concreteness Fading in Mathematics and Science Instruction: a Systematic Review. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-014-9249-3

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Theoretical argument from the review's abstract, presented as the fourth of four theoretical benefits of concreteness fading: "guiding learners to strip away extraneous concrete properties and distill the generic, generalizable properties." The available text reports no empirical test of this benefit.

"guiding learners to strip away extraneous concrete properties and distill the generic, generalizable properties"

Discussion¶

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