McNamara, D. S., Levinstein, I. B., & Boonthum, C. (2004). iSTART: Interactive strategy training for active reading and thinking. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36(2), 222–233

This paper introduces iSTART, which attempts to automate delivery of the Self-explanation strategy training described in McNamara, D. (2004). SERT: Self-explanation reading training. Discourse Processes, 38(1), 1–30. This article focuses on the design of the system and on validating that its automated assessment capabilities are sufficiently accurate.