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Dewi, Jasinta D. M.; Bagnoud, Jeanne; Thevenot, Catherine – Cognitive Science, 2021
As a theory of skill acquisition, the instance theory of automatization posits that, after a period of training, algorithm-based performance is replaced by retrieval-based performance. This theory has been tested using alphabet-arithmetic verification tasks (e.g., is A + 4 = E?), in which the equations are necessarily solved by counting at the…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Training, Task Analysis, Learning Theories
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Rafferty, Anna N.; Jansen, Rachel A.; Griffiths, Thomas L. – Cognitive Science, 2020
Online educational technologies offer opportunities for providing individualized feedback and detailed profiles of students' skills. Yet many technologies for mathematics education assess students based only on the correctness of either their final answers or responses to individual steps. In contrast, examining the choices students make for how…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Skills, Student Evaluation