Self-Monitoring and Knowledge-Building in Learning by Teaching

Rod D. Roscoe

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 42, No. 3 (May 2014) pp. 327–351

Prior research has established that learning by teaching depends upon peer tutors' engagement in knowledge-building, in which tutors integrate their knowledge and generate new knowledge through reasoning. However, many tutors adopt a "...

Tutor Learning: The Role of Explaining and Responding to Questions

Rod D. Roscoe; Michelene T. H. Chi

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 36, No. 4 (July 2008) pp. 321–350

Previous research on peer tutoring has found that students sometimes benefit academically from tutoring other students. In this study we combined quantitative and qualitative analyses to explore how untrained peer tutors learned via explaining and...

Game-Based Practice versus Traditional Practice in Computer-Based Writing Strategy Training: Effects on Motivation and Achievement

Antje Proske; Rod D. Roscoe; Danielle S. McNamara

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 62, No. 5 (October 2014) pp. 481–505

Achieving sustained student engagement with practice in computer-based writing strategy training can be a challenge. One potential solution is to foster engagement by embedding practice in educational games; yet there is currently little research...

Shallow strategy development in a teachable agent environment designed to support self-regulated learning

Rod D. Roscoe; James R. Segedy; Brian Sulcer; Hogyeong Jeong; Gautam Biswas

Computers & Education Vol. 62, No. 1 (March 2013) pp. 286–297

To support self-regulated learning (SRL), computer-based learning environments (CBLEs) are often designed to be open-ended and multidimensional. These systems incorporate diverse features that allow students to enact and reveal their SRL strategies...

Language: English

Partial Verbal Redundancy in Multimedia Presentations for Writing Strategy Instruction

Rod D. Roscoe; Matthew E. Jacovina; Danielle Harry; Devin G. Russell; Danielle S. McNamara

Grantee Submission Vol. 29, No. 1 (2015) pp. 669–679

Multimedia instructional materials require learners to select, organize, and integrate information across multiple modalities. To facilitate these comprehension processes, a variety of multimedia design principles have been proposed. This study...

The Writing Pal Intelligent Tutoring System: Usability Testing and Development

Rod D. Roscoe; Laura K. Allen; Jennifer L. Weston; Scott A. Crossley; Danielle S. McNamara

Computers and Composition Vol. 34, No. 1 (December 2014) pp. 39–59

The Writing Pal (W-Pal) is an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) designed to improve students’ writing proficiency via a unique combination of explicit strategy instruction, game-based practice, essay writing practice, and automated formative...

Language: English