Different contexts activate different resources.
We are working to identify resources and their contexts of activation in students epistemologies. Instructional Strategies to Promote Meta-learning A number of groups working in similar settings have devised strategies to incorporate small group interactions into large lecture courses. They are widely used in introductory physics courses. They have not, however, been shown to help students improve in meta-learning. In fact, there is evidence of as deleterious an effect on student approaches to learning in courses using these methods as in traditional lecture courses.