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Students' Argumentation Performance in Online Learning Environments: Bridging Culture and Gender
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Ranjbaran, Fatemeh; Babaee, Maryam; Parvaneh Akhteh Khaneh, Marzieh; Gohari, Mehrnaz; Daneshvar Ghorbani, Babak; Taghizadeh Kerman, Nafiseh; Banihashem, Seyyed Kazem; Noroozi, Omid – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2023
Performing complex tasks such as writing an argumentative essay and providing high-quality argumentative peer feedback are challenging for higher education students. This study aims to explore whether and how students' argumentation performance during peer feedback activities and essay writing is related to their culture and gender. In this…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Online Courses, Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation
Explaining Individual Student Success Using Continuous Assessment Types and Student Characteristics
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Day, Indira N. Z.; van Blankenstein, Floris M.; Westenberg, P. Michiel; Admiraal, Wilfried F. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Individual student success is influenced by the educational environment and student characteristics. One adaptation of the educational environment to improve student success is the introduction of continuous, or in-course, assessment. Previous research already identified several student characteristics that are related to student success as…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Statistical Analysis, Academic Achievement, Questionnaires
Gender-Inclusive Game-Based Learning in Secondary Education
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Admiraal, Wilfried; Huizenga, Jantina; Heemskerk, Irma; Kuiper, Els; Volman, Monique; ten Dam, Geert – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014
Boys show a stronger preference for digital entertainment games than girls. For this reason, it may be that game-based learning is more acceptable to boys than to girls. Yet game-based learning might improve the performance of both boys and girls, depending upon the instructional design. In a quasi-experimental study with a secret-trail game,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Quasiexperimental Design
Learning in a Sheltered Internet Environment: The Use of WebQuests
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Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Learning and Instruction, 2009
The present study investigated the effects on learning in a sheltered Internet environment using so-called WebQuests in elementary school classrooms in the Netherlands. A WebQuest is an assignment presented together with a series of web pages to help guide children's learning. The learning gains and quality of the work of 229 sixth graders…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Internet, Information Processing