Practice Makes Permanent – Consequences for Learning

• In Event: SMT - Issues in Diversity, Distant Education, Standards and Ethics

Short Description

Recently complete large-scale randomized controlled trials on the efficacy of a web-based intelligent tutoring system for the structure strategy (ITSS) showed statistically significant and positive effects for the ITSS classroom learners. Since reading comprehension is an essential skill these findings are not sufficient. We explored the data from the posttest relating to main idea (summary) writing tasks and found patterns where students showed intrusions from other classroom practices that negatively impacted their ability to learn and use the structure strategy. We report on two such intrusions in this paper and presentation.

Authors

• Kausalai J Wijekumar, The Pennsylvania State University Beaver

• Bonnie J.F. Meyer, The Pennsylvania State University