Improving seventh grade students' learning of ratio and proportion: The role of schema-based instruction

Asha K. Jitendra; Jon R. Star; Kristin Starosta; Jayne M. Leh; Sheetal Sood; Grace Caskie; Cheyenne L. Hughes; Toshi R. Mack

doi:10.1016/j.cedpsych.2009.06.001

Improving seventh grade students' learning of ratio and proportion: The role of schema-based instruction

Asha K. Jitendra, Jon R. Star, Kristin Starosta, Jayne M. Leh, Sheetal Sood, Grace Caskie, Cheyenne L. Hughes, Toshi R. Mack

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	250-264
Number of pages	15
Journal	Contemporary Educational Psychology
Volume	34
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2009.06.001
State	Published - Jul 2009

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