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Jenna Marks; Deena Bernett; Catherine C. Chase – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2016
This design case describes the development of the Invention Coach, an intelligent exploratory learning environment (ELE) for the constructivist activity of Invention. The Invention Coach scaffolds students as they invent mathematical formulas to describe contrasting cases. In this paper, we detail our process and rationale for three key design…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Constructivism (Learning), Mathematics Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Baroody, Arthur J.; Eiland, Michael D.; Purpura, David J.; Reid, Erin E. – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
In a 9-month training experiment, 64 first graders with a risk factor were randomly assigned to computer-assisted structured discovery of the add-1 rule (e.g., the sum of 7 + 1 is the number after "seven" when we count), unstructured discovery learning of this regularity, or an active-control group. Planned contrasts revealed that the…
Descriptors: Prerequisites, Risk, Discovery Learning, Control Groups