An Investigation into Adaptive Shifting in Knowledge Transfer
Matthias Nückles, Alexander Renkl, Jörg Wittwer · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2005
Participants were trained on three knowledge types -exemplars, tactics, and constraints --and then thought aloud while solving a series of transfer problems.Results show that participants shift between the transfer mechanisms of analogy, knowledge compilation, and constraint violation depending on their prior knowledge and the characteristics of the transfer tasks.