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Kostons, Danny; van Gog, Tamara; Paas, Fred – Learning and Instruction, 2012
For self-regulated learning to be effective, students need to be able to accurately assess their own performance on a learning task and use this assessment for the selection of a new learning task. Evidence suggests, however, that students have difficulties with accurate self-assessment and task selection, which may explain the poor learning…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Management
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Merkt, Martin; Weigand, Sonja; Heier, Anke; Schwan, Stephan – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Two complementary studies, one in the laboratory and one in the field, compared the usage patterns and the effectiveness of interactive videos and illustrated textbooks when German secondary school students learned complex content. For this purpose, two videos affording different degrees of interactivity and a content-equivalent illustrated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Printed Materials, Use Studies, Instructional Effectiveness
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Nie, Youyan; Lau, Shun – Learning and Instruction, 2010
This study examined how constructivist and didactic instruction was related to students' cognitive, motivational, and achievement outcomes in English classrooms, using a sample of 3000 Grade 9 students from 108 classrooms in 39 secondary schools in Singapore. Results of hierarchical linear modeling showed differential cross-level relations. After…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Self Efficacy, Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries
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Goldberg, Tsafrir; Schwarz, Baruch B.; Porat, Dan – Learning and Instruction, 2008
This article investigates the effect of the vitality of historical issues in collective memory on students' history learning processes and products. Forty 12th grade students of different ethnic background participated in two historical problem-solving learning tasks. The historical issues were found to differ in their vitality in collective…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Memory, Learning Processes, Grade 12
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Kollar, Ingo; Fischer, Frank; Slotta, James D. – Learning and Instruction, 2007
We investigated how differently structured external scripts interact with learners' internal scripts with respect to individual knowledge acquisition in a Web-based collaborative inquiry learning environment. Ninety students from two secondary schools participated. Two versions of an external collaboration script (high vs. low structured)…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Learning Processes, Educational Environment, Internet
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Kapa, Esther – Learning and Instruction, 2007
A new computerized environment introducing a variety of metacognitive support mechanisms (MSMs) in different phases of the problem-solving process was designed to influence students' transfer from solving structured problems (near transfer) to solving open-ended problems (far transfer). Two hundred and thirty one students (aged 13-14 years) were…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction
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Jarvenoja, Hanna; Jarvela, Sanna – Learning and Instruction, 2005
The aim of the study reported in this paper was to consider the sources of emotional and motivational experiences of secondary school students (N=18), 12-15 years old, during computer-supported collaborative learning projects. We chose the concept of volition to frame the analysis of the various kinds of descriptions the students give of their…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Emotional Response, Student Motivation