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This work is part of our commitment to create effective learning environments based on learning science and prove their effectiveness through research and constant iterative improvement.

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The Doer Effect: Practice Causes Learning

The Doer Effect is the learning science principle that students who do practice as they read (learn by doing) have higher learning gains than those who only read. In this video, Dr. Rachel Van Campenhout, Ed.D., explains how we created an unprecedented scaling of the Doer Effect with Bookshelf CoachMe®.

 

Recent Publications

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2026
Student attitudes and perceptions of AI and AI-generated practice in the classroom

The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii 2026

profile Rachel Van Campenhout, Michelle Clark (2026)
Automatic Question Generation Generative AI Teaching & Learning
2025
AI-generated formative practice and feedback: Performance benchmarks and applications in higher education

Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-CON)

profile Rachel Van Campenhout, Michelle Clark, Jeffrey S. Dittel, Bill Jerome, Nick Brown, Benny G. Johnson (2025)
Automatic Question Generation Generative AI Feedback
2025
Improving automatically generated fill-in-the-blank answer selection with an LLM-based agreement filter

Educational Data Mining 2025 Workshop on Causal Inference

profile Benny G. Johnson, Jeffrey S. Dittel, Rachel Van Campenhout (2025)
Automatic Question Generation Generative AI
2025
Improving textbook accessibility through AI simplification: Readability improvements and meaning preservation

iTextbooks 2025: Sixth Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks

profile Benny G. Johnson, Bill Jerome, Jeffrey S. Dittel, Rachel Van Campenhout (2025)
Generative AI
2025
Reducing achievement gaps: Exploring how learning by doing can support diverse student success

The Seventeenth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning

profile Martha Hubertz, Patsy Moskal, Rachel Van Campenhout, Benny G. Johnson (2025)
Doer Effect
2025
Scaling effective characteristics of ITSs: A preliminary analysis of LLM-based personalized feedback

International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems

profile Rachel Van Campenhout, Jeffrey S. Dittel, Benny G. Johnson (2025)
Doer Effect Automatic Question Generation
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