In a paper recently published in Cognitive Science, Chi showed that pairs of students can learn to solve physics problems by watching and listening to another student (a tutee) being tutored. The new Spencer-funded project will further investigate how the observing-students can learn the scientific content from overhearing the dialogues between the tutor and the tutee, a practice commonly used by generations of people in various cultures to acquire skills or trades through observation in apprenticeships. Read more.
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