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Margaret M. Recker

Researcher at University of California

Publications -  3
Citations -  317

Margaret M. Recker is an academic researcher from University of California. The author has contributed to research in topics: Intelligent tutoring system & Metacognition. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 306 citations.

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Learning Strategies and Transfer in the Domain of Programming

TL;DR: In this article, the Camegie Mellon University Lisp Tutor was used to train a tutoring system for Lisp and the results suggest that the acquisition of cognitive skills is facilitated by high degrees of metacognition, which includes higher degrees of monitoring states of knowledge, more self-generated explanation goals and strategies, and greater attention to the instructional structure.
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Student Strategies for Learning Programming from a Computational Environment

TL;DR: The results showed an interesting ability by environment interaction: the higher ability subjects using the hypertext environment improved and made significantly less errors when programming new concepts while the lower ability subjects did not improve and made more errors.