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Peer reviewedMerrill, Douglas C.; And Others – Cognition and Instruction, 1995
Examined the effects of tutoring on college students' ability to learn a computer programming language in order to characterize effective tutor behaviors. Found that successful tutors took a very active role in leading problem-solving by offering confirmatory feedback and additional guidance while students were on profitable paths and error…
Descriptors: College Students, Experiential Learning, Feedback, Higher Education
Download full textMerrill, Douglas C.; And Others – 1995
Individualized instruction significantly improves students' pedagogical and motivational outcomes. The study described here sought to characterize tutorial behaviors that could lead to these benefits and to consider why these behaviors should be pedagogically useful. The experiment studied 16 undergraduate and graduate university students learning…
Descriptors: College Students, Critical Thinking, Discourse Analysis, Feedback
