Tutored Problem Solving vs. “Pure”: Worked Examples

Worked examples use less time but caused about as much learning as scaffolding.

Kim, R, Weitz, R., Heffernan, N. & Krach, N. (2009). Tutored Problem Solving vs. “Pure”: Worked Examples In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3121-3126). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

A follow up experiment was this. Weitz, R., Salden, R, Kim, R. & Heffernan, N. T. (2010) Comparing Worked Examples and Tutored Problem Solving: Pure vs. Mixed Approaches. 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Pages 2877-2881 Retrived Oct 10, 2014 from http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2010/papers/0676/paper0676.pdf

From the problem sets, PS: psaf9j PS: psagtf PS: psagsw PS: PSAFP5