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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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2025
AI principles in practice with a learning engineering framework

The 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education

profile Rachel Van Campenhout, Nick Brown, and Benny G. Johnson (2025)
Automatic Question Generation
2025
Intrinsic and contextual factors impacting student ratings of automatically generated questions: A large-scale data analysis

The Journal of Educational Data Mining

profile Jeffrey S. Dittel, Benny G. Johnson, and Rachel Van Campenhout (2025)
Automatic Question Generation
2025
AI-Generated questions in an OER textbook: Evaluating the performance of formative practice

Presented at the 10th IAFOR International Conference on Education

profile Rachel Van Campenhout, Michelle Clark, & Benny G. Johnson (2025)
Automatic Question Generation
2024
Automatically generated practice in the classroom: Exploring performance and impact across courses

Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2024)

profile Rachel Van Campenhout, Michelle Clark, Benny G. Johnson, Melissa Deininger, Shannon Harper, Kelly G. Odenweller, & Erin Wilgenbusch (2024)
Automatic Question Generation Instructor Implementation
2024
Are students reading? How formative practice impacts reading behaviors in etextbooks

Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S'24)

profile Nick Brown, Rachel Van Campenhout, Michelle Clark, and Benny G. Johnson (2024)
Instructor Implementation
2024
Investigating student ratings with features of automatically generated questions: A large-scale analysis using data from natural learning contexts

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Educational Data Mining

profile Benny G. Johnson; Jeffrey S. Dittel; Rachel Van Campenhout (2024)
Doer Effect Automatic Question Generation
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