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McKellar, Nancy A. – 1984
An experiment was conducted to determine whether tutoring is a learning activity from which the tutor, as well as the tutee, gains cognitively. Undergraduate students (N=80) participated in the study. Half of the subjects studied selected material to tutor another subject. The other half studied material to prepare for a test that they would take.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Higher Education
Download full textMcFerrin, Karen M. – 1999
The purpose of this study was to examine and describe the incidental learning activity of students in an asynchronous online course in a higher education setting. This research was conducted with data collected from interviews, journals, observations, email messages, and online conferencing software postings of 22 members of three sections of a…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Graduate Study
