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Rittle-Johnson, Bethany; Siegler, Robert S.; Alibali, Martha Wagner – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
Proposes that conceptual and procedural knowledge develop in an iterative fashion and improved problem representation is one mechanism underlying the relations between them. Two experiments were conducted with 5th and 6th grade students learning about decimal fractions. Results indicate conceptual and procedural knowledge do develop, iteratively,…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5, Grade 6
Fitzgerald, Jill; Markham, Lynda R. – 1987
A study investigated the effects of direct instruction in the process of revision on students' knowledge of the revision process, their ability to make revisions on paper, and the quality of their writing. Subjects, 30 sixth grade students, were divided into an experimental and a control group. The experimental group received instruction in the…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Knowledge Level, Learning Processes