Strategy Training: An Incidental Learning Model for CAI

Sharon J. Derry

Journal of Instructional Development Vol. 8, No. 2 (1985) pp. 16–23

Describes a learning strategies training model that engineers the instructional environment following study skills training to prompt students to use previously taught learning strategies during study. Empirical and theoretical evidence supporting...

Distributed Leadership in Online Groups

Julia Gressick; Sharon J. Derry

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Vol. 5, No. 2 (June 2010) pp. 211–236

We conducted research within a program serving future mathematics and science teachers. Groups of teachers worked primarily online in an asynchronous discussion environment on a 6-week task in which they applied learning-science ideas acquired from...

Assessing Knowledge Construction in On-Line Learning Communities

Sharon J. Derry; Lori Adams DuRussel

Annual Meeting of the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education 1999 (2000)

The Teacher Professional Development Institute employs Internet technology to support distributed professional learning communities. The Secondary Teacher Education Program (STEP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will soon employ a similar...

When the Book Is Better than the Movie: How Contrasting Video Cases Influence Text Learning

Brian D. Beitzel; Sharon J. Derry

Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 40, No. 3 (2009) pp. 337–355

Video usage in educational contexts is on the rise. We examined 3 alternative theories about cognitive mechanisms of learning and their implications for instructional design when video is employed to enhance text-based learning. Hypothesis-testing...

How Tutors Model Students: A Study of Personal Constructs in Adaptive Tutoring

Sharon J. Derry; Michael K. Potts

American Educational Research Journal Vol. 35, No. 1 (1998) pp. 65–99

Studied five tutors' personal constructs about their students, as identified by repertory grid interviews and interpreted by cluster analysis. All tutors judged and classified students in similarly defined terms of motivation and intellectual...

Application of Schema Theory to the Instruction of Arithmetic Word Problem Solving Skills

Chia-jer Tsai; Sharon J. Derry

An understanding-based approach to teaching arithmetic word problems is used in the Training Arithmetic Problem Solving Skills (TAPS) research project, for which four semantic schemas or problem representations have been revised and adopted: Combine,...

Description of an Introductory Learning Strategies Course for the Job Skills Educational Program

Debra Ann Murphy; Sharon J. Derry

The Job Skills Educational Program (JSEP), currently under development for the Army Research Institute, embeds learner strategies training within the context of a basic skills computer-assisted instruction curriculum. The curriculum is designed for...

Leveraging Students' Knowledge to Adapt Science Curricula to Local Context

Lana M. Minshew; Kelly J. Barber-Lester; Sharon J. Derry; Janice L. Anderson

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 20, No. 4 (2017) pp. 205–218

Conceptions of ecological processes such as the flow of energy and cycling of matter in an ecosystem are increasingly important understandings in a rapidly changing world. This study utilizes a p-prims, or knowledge in pieces, lens to examine...

Cracking the Resource Nut with Distributed Problem-Based Learning in Secondary Teacher Education

Constance A. Steinkuehler; Sharon J. Derry; Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver; Matt DelMarcelle

Distance Education Vol. 23, No. 1 (2002) pp. 23–39

Discusses the implementation of problem-based learning (PBL) in traditional large undergraduate courses and describes the STEP PBL system, a Web-based system that supports teaching assistants in their work as PBL tutors and creates a viable model...

Argumentative Reasoning in Online Discussion

Constance A. Steinkuehler; Sharon J. Derry; Joel R. Levin; Jong-Baeg Kim

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2000 (April 2000)

This study compared the effects of three forms of online instruction on memory, belief change, and argumentation skill. Reading of a pro/con text was followed by: (1) online discussion in pairs compared to reading of the same text followed by two...

Cognitive Transfer Revisited: Can We Exploit New Media to Solve Old Problems on a Large Scale?

Sharon J. Derry; Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver; Anandi Nagarajan; Ellina Chernobilsky; Brian D. Beitzel

Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 35, No. 2 (2006) pp. 145–162

The work we report in this special issue attempted to exploit the power of technology and cognitive theory to help make conceptual systems taught in large college courses truly useful in students' future lives. Facing evidence that traditional...

Targeting Transfer in a STELLAR PBL Course for Pre-Service Teachers

Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver; Sharon J. Derry; Alan Bitterman; Natalie Hatrak

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning Vol. 3, No. 2 (2009) pp. 24–42

Helping students in the professions apply conceptual ideas to the problems of practice is a key goal of problem-based learning (PBL). Because PBL is organized around small, collaborative groups, scaling up PBL to large, heterogeneous classes poses...