Inducing a principle orientation in learners: Striving towards skills rooted in deep conceptual understanding

The goal of this project is to develop and test a principle-orientation training intervention based on the prior work of Busch et al. (2008), Chi and VanLehn (2008), and Butcher and Aleven (2009). In particular, a training intervention will be developed that aims to foster the learners' focus on principles in later learning, irrespective of the contents to be learned (at least as long as the "transfer learning environment" provides opportunities to refer to principles, that is, contains information on principles). Such a training intervention has two "coin sides"; it has a cognitive side (i.e., the strategy that is taught) as well as a motivational side because an orientation towards principles in skill acquisition also implies a learning orientation in contrast to a pure performance orientation.

Projektbeginn: 01.10.2010
Projektende: 31.12.2012

Aleven V, Renkl A

Human-Computer Interaction Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 - USA

Institut für Psychologie
Abteilung für Pädagogische Psychologie und Entwicklungspsychologie
Engelbergerstr. 41
79098 Freiburg i. Br.

Telefon: 0761 203 3002
Fax: 0761 203 3100
Email: nal@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de
http://www.psychologie.uni-freiburg.de/abteilungen/Paedagogische.Psychologie

• NSF via Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, Sonstiges