Evaluating Online Metacognition Tools and Strategies for Their Use

这个项目继续努力扩大理解有效的教师，学生和学生对等话语在大型讲座式调查科学类使用掌上电脑和笔记本电脑。这是通过在两个学生人口结构非常不同的机构的两个不同的本科课程中进行应用实验来实现的。 这些课程是“极端天气”和“计算机辅助设计”。“这些实验正在测量课堂上不同强度的同伴之间和教师之间的互动的效果，以及不同程度的要求学生参与与他们的学习成果有关的元认知练习的效果。 这对提高教师使用个人反应系统的有效性具有广泛的意义。计划中的实验是最先进的，并建立在先前研究的坚实基础上。

This project continues efforts to expand understanding of effective instructor to student and student peer to peer discourse in large lecture-style survey science classes using Pocket PCs and laptops. This is being done by conducting applied experiments in two different undergraduate courses in two institutions with very different student demographic profiles. The courses are "extreme weather" and "computer-aided design." The experiments are measuring the effect of varying intensities of peer to peer and instructor to peer interactions during class time, and also of different degrees of requiring students to engage in meta-cognitive exercises related to their learning outcomes. This has broad implications for improving the effectiveness of instructor use of personal response systems. The planned experiments are state of the art and build on a solid base of prior research.