88 - Christina Barbieri: Do examples help students learn math?

Anjie chats with Dr. Christina Barbieri.  Christina is an Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware’s School of Education within the Educational Statistics and Research Methods Ph.D. program and the Learning Sciences specializations. Her work focuses on applying and evaluating the effectiveness of instructional strategies and materials based on principles of learning from cognitive and learning sciences on improving mathematical competencies.  In this episode, they chat about her recent paper, A Meta-analysis of the Worked Examples Effect on Mathematics Performance. She talks about how worked examples could help students learn maths, and how sometimes they might fail. 

Links:

Christina’s paper: https://tinyurl.com/BarbieriEtal

Christina’s twitter: @c_barbieri_d

Christina’s website: https://sites.udel.edu/barbieri/

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