PSLC Year 5 Projects

For more full descriptions see PSLC Integrated Project Summary.

Refinement & Fluency CLUSTER ==> Cognitive Factors THRUST [Chuck]

• Macwhinney - Robustness-2nd Language Learning Learning_French_gender_cues_with_prototypes,French_gender_cue_learning_through_optimized_adaptive_practice, French_gender_prototypes, French_gender_attention

• Nel de Jong - Second Language Learning Fostering_fluency_in_second_language_learning, Fluency_Summer_Intern_Project_2008

• **Out of Date - Needs final update** McCormick - ESL self-correction of student-recorded speaking activities: Year 2 The_self-correction_of_speech_errors_(McCormick,_O’Neill_&_Siskin)

• **Out of Date** Julie Fiez - Fiez Project Plan A Novel Writing System
• **New** Wylie, Mitamura, Koedinger - IWT Assistance_Dilemma_English_Articles See also CL cluster and CMDM thrust.
• **New** Dunlap, Perfetti - Lexical Quality of English Second Language Learners Orthography
• **New** Balass, Nelson, Perfetti - Learning_ESL_Vocabulary_with_Context_and_Definitions:_Order_Effects_and_Self-Generation
• **New - Empty** Mizera - Formulaic sequences and the development of L2 oral fluency
• **New** Liu, Perfetti, Wang, Wu, Guan - Integration of reading and writing in learning Chinese words and sentences

Coordinative Learning CLUSTER ==> CF or Metacognition & Motivation THRUST [Ken]

Metacognition

Example-Rule Coordination

• Salden - Worked Examples in Geometry Does learning from worked-out examples improve tutored problem solving?
• McLaren - Worked Examples in Chemistry
• **Out of Date** Nokes - Bridging_Principles_and_Examples_through_Analogy_and_Explanation in Physics. See also Interactive Communication.
• **New** Wylie, Mitamura, Koedinger - IWT Assistance_Dilemma_English_Articles. See also CF and CMDM thrusts.

• Roll- Labgebra - Inventing rules as preparation for future learning. Highlights that will go into it: 1) Last year we completed a study with 7 classes at Steel Valley Middle School. We got positive results - cognitive and motivational benefits. There is also a cogsci paper, which will be the basis for the updated Wiki page. 2) Over the year since then we built a tutoring system for IPL. 3) 10 days ago I finished another study in Steel Valley Middle School evaluating the tutor.
• The Help Tutor Roll Aleven McLaren
• **New** Aleven - Geometry_Greatest_Hits

Visual-Verbal Coordination

• Butcher- Visual-Verbal Visual_Feature_Focus_in_Geometry:_Instructional_Support_for_Visual_Coordination_During_Learning_(Butcher_&_Aleven)
• **Out of Date-Was there Year 5 funding?**Davenport - Visual Representations in Science Visual_Representations_in_Science_Learning
• **Incomplete--Add materials at least** Chang Leverage_Learning_from_Chemistry_Visualizations_(Ming_&_Schoenfield)
• Reed Corbett Hoffman- Enhancing Learning through Computer Animation
• **New** Aleven - Multiple Interactive Representation Sequencing_learning_with_multiple_representations_of_rational_numbers_(Aleven,_Rummel,_&_Rau)

Motivation

• Baker - How Content and Interface Features Influence Student Choices Within the Learning Space Baker_Choices_in_LE_Space
• Mayer_and_McLaren_-_Social_Intelligence_And_Computer_Tutors
• **New** Aleven- Improving student affect through adding game elements to mathematics LearnLabs Math_Game_Elements

Integrative Communication CLUSTER ==> Social Communicative THRUST [Chuck]

• Nokes - Bridging Principles Bridging_Principles_and_Examples_through_Analogy_and_Explanation See also Coordinative Learning.
• Van Lehn - Ill defined Physics Ringenberg_Ill-Defined_Physics
• Walker - Collaborative Extensions Adaptive_Assistance_for_Peer_Tutoring_(Walker,_Rummer,_Koedinger)
• Katz - Automated Dialogue Extending_Reflective_Dialogue_Support_(Katz_&_Connelly)
• **New** Nokes - Gadgil,Soniya Analogical Scaffolding in Collaborative Learning Analogical_Scaffolding_in_Collaborative_Learning

Computational Modeling and Data Mining THRUST [Ken]

Knowledge Analysis: Developing Cognitive Models of Domain-Specific Content

• **New** Nokes, Hausmann - Harnessing what you know: The role of analogy in robust learning
• Cen thesis
• Pavlik
• Cross referencing projects in other thrusts:
  • Wylie English Article Analysis

Learning Analysis: Developing Models of Domain-General Learning and Motivational Processes

• **New** Matsuda - SimStudent Application_of_SimStudent_for_Error_Analysis
• Cross referencing projects in other thrusts:
  • Mayer? Baker?

Instructional Analysis: Developing Predictive Engineering Models to Inform Instructional Event Design

• Cross referencing projects in other thrusts:
  • Mclaren- Assistance Dilemma, continuation of Studying the Learning Effect of Personalization and Worked Examples in the Solving of Stoich Problems
  • **New** Wylie, Mitamura, Koedinger - IWT Assistance_Dilemma_English_Articles See also CL cluster and CF thrust.