Cognitive Demand of Model Tracing Tutor Tasks: Conceptualizing and Predicting How Deeply Students Engage

Aaron M. Kessler; Mary Kay Stein; Christian D. Schunn

Technology, Knowledge and Learning Vol. 20, No. 3 (2015) pp. 317–337

Model tracing tutors represent a technology designed to mimic key elements of one-on-one human tutoring. We examine the situations in which such supportive computer technologies may devolve into mindless student work with little conceptual...