BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Social problem-solving therapy shows promise as an intervention to improve the well-being of family caregivers. There is some evidence that training in problem solving may be effectively delivered by telephone. The purpose of this study was to quantify the impact of social problem-solving telephone partnerships on primary family caregiver outcomes after stroke survivors a...

First, we sought to examine the effects of metacognitive self-regulation on problem solving across three conditions— an interactive, computer-based treatment condition, a non-interactive computer-based alternative treatment condition, and a control condition. Second, we sought to investigate which of five components of metacognitive self-regulation were important for scientific problem solving....

One important goal of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) is to bring students up to the same level of mastery. We showed that an ITS teaching a domain-independent problem-solving strategy indeed closed the gap between High and Low learners, not only in the domain where it was taught (probability) but also in a second domain where it was not taught (physics). The strategy includes two main comp...

Certain learners are less sensitive to learning environments and can always learn, while others are more sensitive to variations in learning environments and may fail to learn (Cronbach & Snow, 1977). We refer to the former as high learners and the latter as low learners. One important goal of any learning environment is to bring students up to the same level of mastery. We showed that an intel...

The design and coordination of independent specialized skill units (often called action primitives) is fundamental to modern robotics. However, a robot that must act in a complex environment over an extended period of time should do more than just use existing skills: it should learn new skills that increase its capabilities and facilitate later problem solving. Although robots exist that can l...