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Direct linkKienhues, Dorothe; Stadtler, Marc; Bromme, Rainer – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The present study investigated how dealing with conflicting versus consistent medical information on the Web impacts on topic-specific and medicine-related epistemic beliefs as well as aspects of health decision making. One hundred mostly female university students were randomly assigned to three groups. Two intervention groups searched the Web…
Descriptors: Internet, Electronic Publishing, Medicine, Health Materials
Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Olympiou, Georgios – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The aim of this study was to investigate whether physical or virtual manipulative experimentation can differentiate physics learning. There were four experimental conditions, namely Physical Manipulative Experimentation (PME), Virtual Manipulative Experimentation (VME), and two sequential combinations of PME and VME, as well as a control condition…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Undergraduate Students, Physics
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos – Learning and Instruction, 2009
Undergraduate students in dyads (N = 72) were randomly and equally assigned to four groups, namely three teaching groups (General, Infusion, and Immersion) and the control group. Students were initially administered the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST). After instruction, each dyad's critical-thinking performance on an ill-defined…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Undergraduate Students, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Berthold, Kirsten; Nuckles, Matthias; Renkl, Alexander – Learning and Instruction, 2007
Although writing learning protocols is an effective follow-up course work activity, many learners tend to do it in a rather suboptimal way. Hence, we analyzed the effects of instructional support in the form of prompts. The effects of different types of prompts were investigated in an experiment with four conditions: cognitive prompts,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Learning Strategies, Psychology, Undergraduate Students
