Previous intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) and ITS authoring studies predominantly simulated and evaluated artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and cognitive architectures/notions in educational domains. Current research focuses on software design that is priori driven by educational theories; it concerns the conception of Augmented Conversation and Cognitive Apprenticeship Metamodel (ACCAM...

Empirical studies have shown that anxiety and negative emotion can hinder language acquisition. The present study implemented a writing instructional model so as to investigate its effects on the writing anxiety levels of English Foreign Language learners. The study was conducted with 177 participants, who were administered the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI; Cheng, 2004) that...

Prior research on stressful events has largely ignored their potential impact on motivational processes. This study prospectively examined the association of a stressful event with control strivings in the school-to-work transition. Five waves of data on stressful events, control strategies, and potential mediating variables were collected from an adolescent sample in Berlin (N = 420) during th...

This paper reports on a study in which computer science students interacted in a learning environment for object-oriented (oo) modeling. The learning environment used in this study support aspects such as reflection and authentic use of expert language and tools. The analysis focuses on students’ activities, the results of their activities, and on their interaction with each other and with the ...

This research proposes that an intelligent animated agent is able toprovide learning support, in the form of mentoring, to novice programmerswithin the Cognitive Apprenticeship pedagogy. This small paper outlinesthe nature of learning to program, how an intelligent agent may be used tosupport the learner and the design of a new architecture, called MRCHIPS,to control rea...

Many students at German universities have difficulties to cope with the introductory courses on theoretical computer science, which results in very high dropout and failure rates. In the past years we have experimented with a variety of improvements to the theory course held at the University of Potsdam, Germany. During last winter semester we improved the setup of the course by taking into acc...

This study examined the career decisions of 54 high school students who participated in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP) at Ohio State University during 1990-92. RAP is a precollege program which aims to provide meaningful experiences in various aspects of health-related research for minority high school students and teachers. RAP activities are centered on the assignment of students t...

This paper presents a tutoring system for the ear domain in medical education as an application of the Interactive Simulation based multimedia system (InterSim). The InterSim approach is based on the principles of cognitive apprenticeship. It enables exploration of the subject domain and acquisition of both domain knowledge and skills through multimedia based interactions, especially interactiv...

Die UML-Klassendiagramm-Modellierung ist ein wichtiges Thema im Informatik-Studium und verwandten Studiengängen. Wir präsentieren ein Vorgehensmodell, dass sich am Cognitive Apprenticeship Modell orientiert und den Studierenden nach anfänglich starker Führung mehr und mehr in die Selbstständigkeit entlässt, und das sich sehr gut durch Tutorsysteme unterstützen lässt. In einem Vergleich zweier a...

It is only in the last century, and only in industrialized nations, that formal schooling has emerged as a widespread method of educating the young. Before schools, apprenticeship was the most common means of learning, used to transmit the knowledge required for expert practice in fields from painting and sculpting to medicine and law. Even today, many complex and important skills, such as thos...