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Dissertation
Taking a Closer Look at the Desirability of Desirable Difficulties - Additionally Focusing on Required Prerequisites, Negative Side-Effects, and Negative Consequences
(2022)
As the title of my dissertation already indicates, the main purpose of the following work was to take a closer, more thorough, and encompassing look at the desirability of desirable difficulties. The term desirable difficulties thereby subsumes varying types of difficult, demanding, and challenging learning strategies—like the application of (learning/practice) tests and generation tasks: Working on and successfully solving those difficult tasks requires more (cognitive) effort compared to working on easier learning ...
Dissertation
Learning through Self-Explanation
(2023)
In this dissertation, the effectiveness of learning through self-explanation was examined through a series of experiments. The primary focus was on the acquisition of factual knowledge. Learners' self-explanations were coded and categorized into correct inferences, correct paraphrases, and false utterances.