Deliberate Erring Improves Far Transfer of Learning More Than Errorless Elaboration and Spotting and Correcting Others' Errors

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Journal Educ Psychol Rev

Date 2023 Feb 13

PMID 36776579

Authors

Sarah Shi Hui Wong

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Abstract

Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10648-023-09739-z.

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