Students' learning strategies can be detected and interpreted from activity sequences in the Betty's Brain open-ended learning environment¶

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Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2017: tool and model accuracy changes quickly

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q2 i? With 73 seventh-grade students using Betty's Brain to learn science topics such as climate change, analysis of activity sequences under different categories of adaptive scaffolding showed it is possible to detect and interpret students' learning strategies. → Azevedo 2014

Evidence¶

Azevedo 2014¶

Azevedo, R. (2014). Issues in dealing with sequential and temporal characteristics of self- and socially-regulated learning. Metacognition and Learning, 9, 217–228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-014-9123-1

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The commentary reports, citing Kinnebrew et al., that 73 seventh-grade students used Betty's Brain while the authors analyzed activity sequences comparing categories of adaptive scaffolding, showing "it is possible to detect and interpret students ' learning strategies."

"Their results showed that it is possible to detect and interpret students ’ learning strategies as they worked in the Betty ’s Brain environment."

Discussion¶

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