The assessment experiments constituted an unusual demonstration of transfer. In
most transfer studies, participants learn a procedure and researchers test whether
they spontaneously apply it to a newproblem. Thiswas a component of our dynamic
assessment; we measured whether students transferred the standardization procedure
from aworked example to the target problem.However, the manipulation of interestwas
not howwe presented the standardization procedure (whichwas constant
across conditions), but rather, howwe differentially prepared students to learn from
theworked example showing the procedure