88 - Christina Barbieri: Do examples help students learn math?
Stanford Psychology Podcast
Is There a Split Attention Effect in Psychology?
In some sense, it is kind of distracting them from actually learning the materials and solving a problem. Is that how it's connected to the split attention effect? This is my expectation. I haven't tested this hypothesis, but I would expect that self-explanation prompts that are not directly targeted towards the specific correct concept or error that's being presented in the example might then be leading a split attention effect. So that would be my guess and my hypothesis. In general, I think examples would be helpful for any type of instruction that you're doing.
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