Metacognitive support promotes an effective use of instructional resources in intelligent tutoring

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 136-150

  Schwonke, Rolf ^a   Ertelt, Anna ^a   Otieno, Christine ^a   Renkl, Alexander ^a   Aleven, Vincent ^b   Salden, Ron J C M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MADEIRA INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Help seeking; Intelligent tutoring systems; Metacognition; Multiple representations; Tool use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868662588     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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