Fading-out prompts yield more cognitive strategy use and higher learning outcomes than permanent prompts¶
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q2 i? In Nückles et al.'s (2010) second experiment, the fading-out prompts group reported significantly more cognitive strategies and showed higher learning outcomes than the permanent prompts group. → Joachim Wirth 2020
Evidence¶
Joachim Wirth 2020¶
Joachim Wirth, Ferdinand Stebner, Melanie Trypke, Corinna Schuster, & Detlev Leutner. (2020). An Interactive Layers Model of Self-Regulated Learning and Cognitive Load. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09568-4
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Narrative review attributing this to Nückles et al. (2010), who used a fading-out prompts procedure in journal writing to avoid the expertise reversal effect found in their first experiment with cognitive and metacognitive prompts. No effect size is printed.
"Results indicate that the fading-out group reported signif- icantly more cognitive strategies and showed higher learning outcomes than the perma- nent prompts group."
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Fading-out prompts yield more cognitive strategy use and higher learning outcomes than permanent prompts |
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Fading-out prompts yield more cognitive strategy use and higher learning outcomes than permanent prompts |
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