For example, research on problem solving
among elementary school children comparing the effectiveness of self-explanation with alternative
activities (e.g., solving practice problems) found that self-explanation was associated with greater
conceptual and procedural knowledgealso demonstrated that explanation prompts facilitate transfer in children
as young as 5 years relative to repeating problem solutions in problem-solving tasks. Notably, however,
children in these previous studies of self-explanation were asked to explain why a particular
solution or strategy was correct; that is, they explained some task-relevant feedback.