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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
Learn by doing: An exploration of AI-generated formative practice 

2025 ACM Conference on Learning at Scale

profile Rachel Van Campenhout , Benny G. Johnson , Michelle Clark (2025)
Doer Effect Automatic Question Generation
2025
Refining sentence selection for automatic cloze question generation with large language models 

2025 ACM Conference on Learning at Scale

profile Rachel Van Campenhout , Benny G. Johnson , Jeffrey S. Dittel  (2025)
Automatic Question Generation
2025
Scaling the Doer Effect: A replication analysis using AI-generated questions

2025 ACM Conference on Learning at Scale

profile Rachel Van Campenhout ,Kevin S. Autry,  Michelle W. Clark , Benny G. Johnson  (2025)
Doer Effect Automatic Question Generation Instructor Implementation
2025
Learning Engineering in Practice: A Case Study on Developing LLM-Based Educational Tools

International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

profile Rachel Van Campenhout, David Soto-Karlin, Michelle Selinger, Bill Jerome (2025)
2025
AI-Generated Questions in Context: A Contextualized Investigation Using Platform Data, Student Feedback, and Faculty Observations

Journal of Communications Software and Systems, 21

profile Rachel Van Campenhout, Benny G. Johnson, Michelle Clark, Melissa Deininger, Shannon Harper, Kelly Odenweller, Erin Wilgenbusch (2025)
Instructor Implementation
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
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