Improving Seventh Grade Students' Learning of Ratio and Proportion: The Role of Schema-Based Instruction
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Jitendra, Asha K.
Starosta, Kristin
Leh, Jayne M.
Sood, Sheetal
Caskie, Grace
Hughes, Cheyenne L.
Mack, Toshi R.
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Jitendra, Asha K., Jon R. Star, Kristin Starosta, Jayne M.Leh, Sheetal Sood, Grace Caskie, Cheyenne L. Hughes, Toshi R. Mack. 2009. Improving Seventh Grade Students' Learning of Ratio and Proportion: The Role of Schema-Based Instruction. Contemporary Educational Psychology 34, no. 3: 250-264.Abstract
The present study evaluated the effectiveness of an instructional intervention (schema-based instruction, SBI) that was designed to meet the diverse needs of middle school students by addressing the research literatures from both special education and mathematics education. Specifically, SBI emphasizes the role of the mathematical structure of problems and also provides students with a heuristic to aid and self-monitor problem solving. Further, SBI addresses well-articulated problem solving strategies and supports flexible use of the strategies based on the problem situation. One hundred forty eight seventh-grade students and their teachers participated in a 10-day intervention on learning to solve ratio and proportion word problems, with classrooms randomly assigned to SBI or a control condition. Results suggested that students in SBI treatment classes outperformed students in control classes on a problem solving measure, both at posttest and on a delayed posttest administered 4 months later. However, the two groups' performance was comparable on a state standardized mathematics achievement test.Terms of Use
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