Learning by preparing to teach: Fostering self-regulatory processes and achievement during complex mathematics problem solving.

We developed an intervention based on the learning by teaching paradigm to foster self-regulatory processes and better learning outcomes during complex mathematics problem solving in a technology-rich learning environment. Seventy-eight elementary students were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 conditions: learning by preparing to teach, or learning for learning (control condition). Students’ conceptualizations (task definitions) of the problem,...