Improving students' help-seeking skills using metacognitive feedback in an intelligent tutoring system

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 267-280

  Roll, Ido ^a   Aleven, Vincent ^b   McLaren, Bruce M ^b   Koedinger, Kenneth R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive tutors; Help seeking; Intelligent tutoring systems; Metacognition; Self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650147310     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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