Removing Opportunities to Calculate Improves Students' Performance on Subsequent Word Problems

Karen B. Givvin, Veronika Moroz, William Loftus, James W. Stigler

Instructional Design
Improvement Science

Givvin, K. B., Moroz, V., Loftus, W., & Stigler, J. W. (2019). Removing opportunities to calculate improves students’ performance on subsequent word problems. Cognitive research: principles and implications, 4(1), 1-13. doi: 10.1186/s41235-019-0175-

This paper reports our investigation on whether removing opportunities to calculate could improve students’ subsequent ability to solve similar word problems.