Analyzing Students' Metacognitive Strategies in Open-Ended Learning Environments
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Novices often lack metacognition and self-regulation skills that are important for effective learning. Betty's Brain, an open-ended computer-based learning environment helps students practice and develop metacognitive strategies as they learn science topics. We extend previous work on sequence mining methods to discover students' frequentlyused behavior patterns from their activity sequences. Our results show that it is possible to interpret aspects of students' learning strategies and their effectiveness by taking into account the context of their activities in the system.
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