Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Seeking instructional specificity: an example from analogical
  instruction   Broad instructional methods like interactive engagement have been shown to be
effective, but such general characterization provides little guidance on the
details of how to structure the instructional materials. In this study, we seek
instructional specificity by comparing two ways of using an analogy to learn a
target physical principle: (i) applying the analogy to the target physical
domain on a Case-by-Case basis and (ii) using the analogy to create a General
Rule in the target physical domain. In the discussion sections of a large,
introductory physics course (N = 231), students who sought a General Rule were
better able to discover and apply a correct physics principle than students who
analyzed the examples Case-by-Case. The difference persisted at a reduced level
after subsequent direct instruction. We argue that students who performed
Case-by-Case analyses are more likely to focus on idiosyncratic
problem-specific features rather than the deep structural features. This study
provides an example of investigating how the specific structure of
instructional materials can be consequential for what is learned.

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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: cs
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph