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Shi, Yongchao; Frederiksen, Carl H.; Muis, Krista R. – Learning and Instruction, 2013
Self-regulated learning (SRL) actions of 30 Canadian and 30 Chinese university students were studied in a face-to-face problem-based learning environment. Participants were randomly assigned to work in dyads consisting of Chinese, Canadian, or mixed Chinese-Canadian pairs to learn Analysis of Variance collaboratively using a computer coach. Dialog…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Independent Study, Computer Uses in Education
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Efklides, Anastasia – Learning and Instruction, 2012
The commentary discusses phenomena highlighted in the studies of the special issue such as the hypercorrection effect, overconfidence, and the efficiency of interventions designed to increase monitoring accuracy. The discussion is based on a broader theoretical framework of self-regulation of learning that stresses the inferential character of…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Metacognition, Cognitive Psychology, Classroom Techniques
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Hinze, Scott R.; Rapp, David N.; Williamson, Vickie M.; Shultz, Mary Jane; Deslongchamps, Ghislain; Williamson, Kenneth C. – Learning and Instruction, 2013
Students are frequently presented with novel visualizations introducing scientific concepts and processes normally unobservable to the naked eye. Despite being unfamiliar, students are expected to understand and employ the visualizations to solve problems. Domain experts exhibit more competency than novices when using complex visualizations, but…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Individual Differences, Novices, Organic Chemistry
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Rotgans, Jerome I.; Schmidt, Henk G. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The aim of the present study was to investigate how situational interest develops over time and how it is related to academic achievement in an active-learning classroom. Five measures of situational interest were administered at critical points in time to 69 polytechnic students during a one-day, problem-based learning session. Results revealed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Active Learning, Problem Based Learning, College Students
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Mason, Lucia; Ariasi, Nicola; Boldrin, Angela – Learning and Instruction, 2011
In the present study it was investigated whether high school students are spontaneously able to reflect epistemologically during online searching for information about a controversial topic. In addition, we examined whether activating epistemic beliefs is related to individual characteristics, such as prior knowledge of the topic and argumentative…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reflection, Epistemology, Beliefs
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Kok, Ellen M.; de Bruin, Anique B. H.; Robben, Simon G. F.; van Merrienboer, Jeroen J. G. – Learning and Instruction, 2013
Comparison learning is a promising approach for learning complex real-life visual tasks. When medical students study radiological appearances of diseases, comparison of images showing diseases with images showing no abnormalities could help them learn to discriminate relevant, disease-related information. Medical students studied 12 diseases on…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Learning, Comparative Analysis, Radiology
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Pieschl, Stephanie; Stahl, Elmar; Murray, Tom; Bromme, Rainer – Learning and Instruction, 2012
Theories of self-regulated learning assume that learners flexibly adapt their learning process to external task demands and that this is positively related to performance. In this study, university students (n = 119) solved three tasks that greatly differed in complexity. Their learning processes were captured in detail by task-specific…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Hypermedia, Learning Processes, College Students
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Schoor, Cornelia; Bannert, Maria – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Addressing a drawback in current research on computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), this study investigated the influence of motivation on learning activities and knowledge acquisition during CSCL. Participants' (N = 200 university students) task was to develop a handout for which they had first an individual preparing phase followed by…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Student Motivation, Cooperative Learning
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Dinsmore, Daniel L.; Parkinson, Meghan M. – Learning and Instruction, 2013
Although calibration has been widely studied, questions remain about how best to capture confidence ratings, how to calculate continuous variable calibration indices, and on what exactly students base their reported confidence ratings. Undergraduates in a research methods class completed a prior knowledge assessment, two sets of readings and…
Descriptors: Measurement, Undergraduate Students, Confidence Testing, Value Judgment
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Boucheix, Jean-Michel; Lowe, Richard K.; Putri, Dian K.; Groff, Jonathan – Learning and Instruction, 2013
The effectiveness of animations containing two novel forms of animation cueing that target relations between event units rather than individual entities was compared with that of animations containing conventional entity-based cueing or no cues. These relational event unit cues ("progressive path" and "local coordinated" cues) were specifically…
Descriptors: Animation, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness, Eye Movements
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McNeil, Nicole M.; Fyfe, Emily R. – Learning and Instruction, 2012
Recent studies have suggested that educators should avoid concrete instantiations when the goal is to promote transfer. However, concrete instantiations may benefit transfer in the long run, particularly if they are "faded" into more abstract instantiations. Undergraduates were randomly assigned to learn a mathematical concept in one of three…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Transfer of Training, Undergraduate Students
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Yang, Yu-Fang; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Learning and Instruction, 2010
The present study investigated junior college students' conceptions of and approaches to learning via online peer assessment (PA) using a phenomenographic approach. Participants were 163 college students. Students were asked to accomplish a given learning task via an online PA system. Of the participants, 62 were interviewed after the activity.…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges, Program Effectiveness, Peer Evaluation
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Zhou, Mingming; Winne, Philip H. – Learning and Instruction, 2012
We examined achievement goals measured by self-reports and by traces (behavioral indicators) gathered as undergraduates used software tools to study a multimedia-formatted article. Traces were operationalized by tags participants applied to selections of text and hyperlinks they clicked in the article. Tags and hyperlinks were titled to represent…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students
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Noroozi, Omid; Biemans, Harm J. A.; Weinberger, Armin; Mulder, Martin; Chizari, Mohammad – Learning and Instruction, 2013
Establishing a Transactive Memory System (TMS) is essential for groups of learners, when they are multidisciplinary and collaborate online. Environments for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) could be designed to facilitate the TMS. This study investigates how various aspects of a TMS (i.e., specialization, coordination, and trust)…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, College Students, Computer Mediated Communication
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Krause, Ulrike-Marie; Stark, Robin; Mandl, Heinz – Learning and Instruction, 2009
This study examined whether cooperative learning and feedback facilitate situated, example-based e-learning in the field of statistics. The factors "social context" (individual vs. cooperative) and "feedback intervention" (available vs. not available) were varied; participants were 137 university students. Results showed that…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Intervention, Self Efficacy, Prior Learning
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