“…Subsequent studies have shown that prompting for such self-explanations can lead to improved learning outcomes in numerous domains including arithmetic (Calin-Jageman & Ratner, 2005;Rittle-Johnson, 2006;Siegler, 2002), geometry (Aleven & Koedinger, 2002;Wong, Lawson & Keeves, 2003), interest calculations (Renkl, Stark, Gruber & Mandel, 1998), LISP programming (Bielaczyc, Pirolli, & Brown, 1995), argumentation (Schworm & Renkl, 2007), Piagetian number conservation (Siegler, 1995), probability calculation (Große & Renkl, 2003), biology text comprehension (Chi, DeLeeuw, Chiu, & LaVancher, 1994), and balancing beam problems (Pine & Messer, 2000). Moreover, these self-explanation effects have been demonstrated across a wide range of age cohorts, from 5-year-old students (CalinJageman & Ratner, 2005) to adult bank apprentices (Renkl et al, 1998). Perhaps most impressive is that prompting for self-explanation also promotes transfer in many of these domains, even though participants rarely receive feedback on the quality of their explanations (e.g.…”