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Van Stockum, Charles A., Jr.; DeCaro, Marci S. – Journal of Problem Solving, 2014
Individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) increase the ability and tendency to devote greater attentional control to a task--improving performance on a wide range of skills. In addition, recent research on enclothed cognition demonstrates that the situational influence of wearing a white lab coat increases controlled attention, due…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Short Term Memory, Attention Control, Intuition
Goldin, Ilya M.; Koedinger, Kenneth R.; Aleven, Vincent – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2012
Although ITSs are supposed to adapt to differences among learners, so far, little attention has been paid to how they might adapt to differences in how students learn from help. When students study with an Intelligent Tutoring System, they may receive multiple types of help, but may not comprehend and make use of this help in the same way. To…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Individual Differences, Prediction