The effect of practice schedules depends on the type of target knowledge, with increasingly interleaved practice most effective for area models.¶

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q3 i? The increasingly interleaved condition was most effective on reproduction with area models but not on reproduction with number lines, suggesting the effect of practice schedules depends on the type of target knowledge. → Rau 2014

Evidence¶

Rau 2014¶

Rau, M. A., Aleven, V., Rummel, N., & Pardos, Z. (2014). How Should Intelligent Tutoring Systems Sequence Multiple Graphical Representations of Fractions? A Multi-Methods Study. Int J Artif Intell Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-013-0011-7

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The classroom experiment found the increasingly interleaved condition was "most effective on reproduction with area models but not on reproduction with number lines," which the authors attributed to the relative difficulty of number lines compared to area models.

"The finding that the increasingly interleaved condition (which gradually moves from a blocked sequence to a more and more interleaved sequence) is most effective on reproduction with area models but not on reproduction with number lines might be attributed to the relative difficulty of number lines, compared to area models."

Discussion¶

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