{"pk":33072,"title":"The Effects of Self-Explanation on Studying Examples and Solving Problems","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Examples play a critical role in guiding the \nacquisition of cognitive skills. W e have argued that \nstudents need to apply the knowledge gathered from \nstudying examples to solve analogous problems for \nthat knowledge to be effective. There is a tradeoff \nbetween the active nature of constructing solutions \nand the facilitating effect of guiding problem solving \nwith a worked example. The present study examined \nthe impact of self-explanations on the effectiveness \nof examples in guiding later problem solving. W e \nfound that within a learning environment which \nprovided direct support for the self-explanation of \nworked examples, such study could be as effective as \ndirect problem solving practice.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3db931gm","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"William","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Sandoval","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""},{"first_name":"J.","middle_name":"Gregory","last_name":"Trafton","name_suffix":"","institution":"Naval Research Laboratory \nCode 5513","department":""},{"first_name":"Brian","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Reiser","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33072/galley/24133/download/"}]}