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Training in Self-Explanation and Self-Regulation Strategies: Investigating the Effects of Knowledge Acquisition Activities on Problem Solving
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Previous research has found positive correlations between particular strategies students use while studying to explain instructional materials to themselves and student performance on associated problem-solving tasks (Chi, Bassok, Lewis, Reimann, & Glaser, 1989; Pirolli & Bielaczyc, 1989; Pirolli & Recker, 1994). In the study reported here, we investigate the causal nature of this relation. This was accomplished by identifying a set of self-explanation and self-regulation strategies used by high-performance students in our earlier studies. We used strategy training to manipulate students' application of these strategies and examined the impact of their use on student explanations and performance. Twenty-four university students with no prior programming experience worked through a sequence of programming lessons. Following introductory lessons, participants received interventions involving explicit training in the strategies (instructional group) or received a similar set of interventions but no explicit training (control group). The instructional group showed significantly greater gains than the control group in the use of self-explanation and self-regulation strategies from the pre- to postinterventions lessons. Increased strategy application was accompanied by significantly greater performance gains. The results indicate that the particular self-explanation and self-regulation strategies used in training contribute to learning and problem-solving performance.
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- Authors
- Bielaczyc, K., Pirolli, P. L., & Brown, A. L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- ORCID
- Pirolli, Peter L.
- Venue
- Cognition and Instruction
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1995-06
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 221-252
- ISSN
- 0737-0008 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-690X
- OpenAlex
- W2027525087
- Cited by
- 422
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 19 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 22
- FWCI
- 15.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cognition and Instruction (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Teaching and Learning Programming
- Keywords
- self-explanation, self-regulation strategies, strategy training, problem solving, knowledge acquisition, programming education, novice programmers
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