Does Providing Prompts During Retrieval Practice Improve Learning?

Does Providing Prompts During Retrieval Practice Improve Learning?

The purpose of this investigation was to identify ways to prompt retrieval practice to make recall even more effective at producing meaningful learning. In two experiments, subjects read educational texts and practiced retrieval across two periods. During prompted retrieval, subjects were cued to explain and describe concepts from the text, whereas during free recall, subjects recalled as much ...

Providing corrective feedback during retrieval practice does not increase retrieval-induced forgetting

Providing adaptive support for meta-cognitive skills to improve learning

We describe a computational framework designed to provide adaptive support for learning from problem solving activities that make worked-out examples available. This framework targets several meta-cognitive skills required to learn effectively in this type of instructional setting, including explanation-based-learning-ofcorrectness and min-analogy. The generated interventions are based on an as...

Pediatricians' responses to printed clinical reminders: does highlighting prompts improve responsiveness?

OBJECTIVE Physicians typically respond to roughly half of the clinical decision support prompts they receive. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that selectively highlighting prompts in yellow would improve physicians' responsiveness. METHODS We conducted a randomized controlled trial using the Child Health Improvement Through Computer Automation clinical decision support system i...

Mining Data and Providing Explanation to Improve Learning in Geosimulation

This article describes the ExpertCOP tutorial system, a Multi-agent geosimulator of the criminality in a region. In the ExpertCOP, students are police officers who allocate their available police force according to the selected region and then, they can follow the simulation process. The interaction between domain agents representing social entities as criminals and police patrols drive the sim...