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obtained through Exploratory Factor Analysis. The sex, subject and family background were
correlated to those factors through Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Research and counseling
implications are discussed.
1098.69 Novice investors’ level of expertise in equity fund portfolio diversification, Ted Martin
Hedesstrom, Henrik Svedsater, Tommy Garling, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Choices of equity funds by lay people were examined. In Experiment 1 the value development of
funds were in one condition expected to be dependent, in another condition independent. More
diversification was observed in the latter condition, thus indicating that dependencies in value
development are taken into account. In Experiment 2 participants who were forced to choose two
or three funds selected more high-risk funds than those who were forced to choose only one fund.
Taken together, the results suggest that lay people have a sufficient level of expertise for taking
advantage of the risk-reducing effect of diversification.
1098.70 Eye movement patterns during the mental rotation task, Sayuri Takahira, Risa Soeda,
Tamagawa University, Japan
Eye movement patterns during the solving process of mental rotation tasks (MRT) between high
and low scoring subjects on the MRT were examined. Eye movement patterns of high scoring
subjects tended to be less complex and less number of times goes back and forth between the base
figure and the target figure than those of low scoring subjects. High scoring subjects tended to
look whole figures, while low scoring subjects tended to look the parts by parts. These differences
in eye movement patterns may indicate strategy differences between high and low scoring
subjects.
1098.71 Analogical decision making in career choice, Naoko Kuriyama 1 , Takahiro Saito 2 ,
Hideo Ueichi 3 , Takashi Kusumi 4 , 1 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; 2 National Institution for
Academic Degrees, Japan; 3 University of Tsukuba, Japan; 4 Kyoto University, Japan
When students make decision on their carrier, such as choosing their universities or jobs, they
simultaneously consider multiple conflicting factors, and take a balance between the ideal and the
reality. The purpose of this research is to examine factors and their causal relation that underlie in
high school students' decision making. As a result, student decision making strategy have two
process roots. There are Decision by consideration and decision by intuition. When they
compromise in the decision making, the analogy plays an important role.
1098.72 Creating effective worked examples, Zhaoming Guo, Qinglin Zhang, Southern China
Normal University, China
Three experiments study worked examples learning on ill-structured arithmetic word problems.
Experiment 1 examines the effect of cues. The result shows that providing cues can be more likely
to help learners solve test problems than non-cue. Experiment 2 examines how the number of
worked examples affects performance for good students and poor students. The result indicates
that the number of worked examples affects good students' performance on the same time
condition. Experiment 3 examines how presenting sequence of worked examples with different
difficulty affects performance. The result shows that various levels of students and presenting
sequence are interacted.
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