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Leopold, Claudia; Leutner, Detlev – Learning and Instruction, 2012
The purpose of two experiments was to contrast instructions to generate drawings with two text-focused strategies--main idea selection (Exp. 1) and summarization (Exp. 2)--and to examine whether these strategies could help students learn from a chemistry science text. Both experiments followed a 2 x 2 design, with drawing strategy instructions…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Freehand Drawing, Textbooks
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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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Berger, Jean-Louis; Karabenick, Stuart A. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Considerable evidence indicates that student motivation and use of learning strategies are related. There is insufficient understanding, however, about their reciprocal effects--whether motivation affects strategy use, the converse, or whether the effects are bidirectional--and which components of motivation and strategies are involved. A two-wave…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies, Student Motivation, Grade 9
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Hubner, Sandra; Nuckles, Matthias; Renkl, Alexander – Learning and Instruction, 2010
Although writing learning journals is a powerful learning tool, instructional support is needed to overcome deficits in the use of self-regulated learning strategies. In a 2 x 2 experimental design with high-school students (N = 70), we analysed the effects of two modes of instruction (namely, informed prompting and learning-journal example) along…
Descriptors: Research Design, Prompting, Learning Strategies, High School Students
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Frijters, Stan; ten Dam, Geert; Rijlaarsdam, Gert – Learning and Instruction, 2008
Education should endeavour to include the competences that students need to participate in a democratic society in a responsible and adequate way. The crucial question is how this can be realized in a curriculum aimed at domain-specific knowledge and skills and organized in school subjects. In this article we present a study on teaching…
Descriptors: Biology, Critical Thinking, Learning Strategies, Curriculum