Comments of Journalism Mentors on News Stories
Graesser, A., Cai, Z., Wood, J., Hatfield, D., Bagley, E., Nash, P., & Shaffer, D.W. (2010). Comments of Journalism Mentors on News Stories: Classification and Epistemic Status of Mentor Contributions. Paper presented at the Intelligent Tutoring Systems Conference (ITS), Pittsburgh, PA.
http://epistemicgames.org/eg/wp-content/uploads/graesser-automentor-0410141.pdf
Should school be more like work?
One study suggests that maybe it should:
An Experimental Study of the Effects of Monetary Incentives on Performance on the 12th-Grade NAEP Reading Assessment
by Henry Braun, Irwin Kirsch & Kentaro Yamamoto
This article describes a randomized field trial conducted to estimate the impact of modest monetary incentives on performance on a version of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 12th-grade reading assessment. Monetary incentives have a statistically significant and substantively important impact on both student engagement/effort and achievement.
Congrats, Padraig!
Congratulations to Padraig Nash for winning “Best Student Paper” at the International Conference for the Learning Sciences last week in Chicago, IL.
View the winning paper here.
