We evaluated the impact of a set of interventions to repair students’ disengagement while solving geometry problems in a tutoring system. We present a deep analysis of how a tutor can remediate a student’s disengagement and motivation with self-monitoring feedback. The analysis consists of a between-subjects analyses on students learning and on students’ attitudes towards mathematics and percep...

Although many educators help others to develop oral presentation skills, little research is available to direct the instructional design activities of these educators. In the present article an explorative study on university freshman is described, in which goal-setting, selfreflection, and several characteristics of the subjects during oral presentations were analysed. The research results emp...

Effective management requires executives to reflect upon their own beliefs and practices. Self-reflection is a highly subjective process that one engages in either alone or in conversation with others. To self-ref'lect is to become aware of one's tacit beliefs and practices, and to then critically explore them. 'I'his study examines the role of information technology in enhancing the process of...

This paper introduces issues about a methodology for the design of serious games that help players/learners understand their decisionmaking process. First, we discuss the development of a video game system based on a role-switching mechanic where the player becomes the game leader of the experience. Then, we introduce game mechanics designed to induce a specific behavior, overconfidence, that h...

Both common wisdom and findings from multiple areas of research suggest that it is helpful to understand and make meaning out of negative experiences. However, people’s attempts to do so often backfire, leading them to ruminate and feel worse. Here we attempt to shed light on these seemingly contradictory sets of findings by examining the role that self-distancing plays in facilitating adaptive...

This is a study integrating Second Life (SL) and the currere approach to develop a virtual curriculum demonstration. The overarching purposes of this study were to understand the perceptions, self-reflection, selfunderstanding and educational growth of graduate students in education toward teaching and learning in a virtual interdisciplinary curriculum. Data was collected in two education gradu...

the Holy Father goes out of his way to praise the many positive contributions to human self-understanding made by philosophers who presuppose a split between faith and reason. For more on Fides et Ratio , see my “Fides et Ratio: A ‘Radical’ Vision of Intellectual Inquiry,” pp. 13-31 in Alice Ramos and Marie George, eds., Faith, Scholarship and Culture in the 21st Century (American Maritain Asso...