Strategies for Written Additions in Adults

Diplôme Master Strategies for Written Additions in Adults eng 2014 author Dewi Freitag Jasinta Dini Maria 775490 director Thevenot Catherine 649080 director Kerzel Dirk 0000-0002-2466-5221 603960 We investigated the strategies involved in written addition and the factors that influence the choice of strategy. Forty-eight adults were recruited to solve 60 twodigit additions on a graphics tablet. This allowed us to register the position from which the participants wrote the solution down, the initiation and solution times and the correctness. Starting the solution from the units indicates the use of the columnar algorithm, whereas starting from the tens or the hundreds implies the use of a flexible strategy. We found that while anxiety does not influence the choice of strategy, arithmetic skill does. Higher-skilled participants solved the additions more often from the units than lower-skilled ones. The adopted strategy depends furthermore on problem types... Dewey 150 Maîtrise universitaire en psychologie 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 596 Cognition visuelle 608 Psychologie du développement cognitif (DeCoPsy) 451ce11e-3bc7-49cc-ae49-99a7c560af81 Master thesis Restricted JasintaDewiFreitag.pdf 1561539 application/pdf restrictedAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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