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Interactive Learning

Environments Special Issue, Eileen Kintsch, Dave Steinhart, Gerry Stahl, Cindy Matthews, Ronald Lamb

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This paper describes a series of classroom trials during which we developed Summary Street, an educational software system that uses Latent Semantic Analysis to support writing and revision activities. Summary Street provides various kinds of feedback, primarily about whether a student summary adequately covers important source content and fulfills other requirements, such as length. The feedback allows students to engage in extensive, independent practice in writing and revising without placing excessive demands on teachers for feedback. We first discuss the underlying educational rationale, then present some results of the trials conducted with the system. We describe the collaborative process among researchers and teachers which enabled the development of a viable and supportive educational tool and its integration into classroom instruction. Keywords: Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), educational technology Summarizing with LSA-Based Feedback 3 Summary Street is an educational software system that uses Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to support the reading and writing activities by which students develop and expand their knowledge in new topic areas. Summary Street determines the degree to which a student summary covers important source content and conforms to requirements, such as length. It tells the student what information in the source is missing, provides comments on redundancy, extraneous content and certain aspects of mechanics. Its current operation is described in more detail later. First, however, we discuss the underlying educational rationale and review the course of its research and development. Text-based activities are indisputably a major vehicle for acquiring basic content knowledge in most school settings, across a range of pedagogical models, fr...

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APA 7

Issue, E. S., Kintsch, E., Steinhart, D., Stahl, G., Matthews, C., & Lamb, R. (2007). Interactive Learning.

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Issue, Environments Special, et al. “Interactive Learning.” 2007.

Chicago

Issue, Environments Special, Eileen Kintsch, Dave Steinhart, Gerry Stahl, Cindy Matthews, and Ronald Lamb. 2007. “Interactive Learning.”

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Issue, E.S. et al. (2007) ‘Interactive Learning’.

BibTeX

@article{issue2007interactive,
  title = {{Interactive Learning}},
  author = {Issue, Environments Special and Kintsch, Eileen and Steinhart, Dave and Stahl, Gerry and Matthews, Cindy and Lamb, Ronald},
  year = {2007}
}

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