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Teaching Tip: Incorporating AI Tools into Database Classes
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Xiaoni Zhang – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2025
This teaching tip explores the integration of AI tools into database education. The author describes how instructors can use AI tools to prepare teaching materials and how students can use AI to facilitate database development. The teaching tips provided encompass both course-level objectives and assignment-specific strategies. The inclusion of AI…
Descriptors: Databases, Technology Integration, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Effects of Self-Assessment Feedback on Self-Assessment and Task-Selection Accuracy
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Raaijmakers, Steven F.; Baars, Martine; Paas, Fred; van Merriënboer, Jeroen J. G.; van Gog, Tamara – Metacognition and Learning, 2019
Effective self-regulated learning in settings in which students can decide what tasks to work on, requires accurate self-assessment (i.e., a judgment of own level of performance) as well as accurate task selection (i.e., choosing a subsequent task that fits the current level of performance). Because self-assessment accuracy is often low,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Accuracy, Metacognition, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Using Contrasting Cases to Improve Self-Assessment in Physics Learning
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Jax, Jared; Ahn, Janet N.; Lin-Siegler, Xiaodong – Educational Psychology, 2019
Self-assessment is essential to scientific literacy as stated by the National Research Council Committee on Conceptual Framework for the New K-12 Science Education Standards and has since been incorporated into the Next Generation Science Standards. However, little empirical evidence documents which instructional tools are beneficial in improving…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Literacy, Science Education, Standards
A Cognitive Support System to Scaffold Students' Problem-Based Learning in a Web-Based Learning Environment
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Ge, Xun; Planas, Lourdes G.; Er, Nelson – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2010
An experimental study was conducted to investigate the effects of question prompts and peer review on scaffolding students' problem-based learning in a web-based cognitive support system. Ninety-six pharmacy students were randomly assigned to a treatment or control condition. The students in both conditions were asked to generate solutions to a…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Web Based Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Questioning Techniques
Embedding Metacognitive Cues into Hypermedia Systems To Promote Far Transfer Problem Solving.
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Lin, Xiaodong; And Others – 1994
A pretest-posttest control group design with random assignment, together with qualitative data collection and analysis, was used to investigate whether metacognitive, cognitive, and affective-awareness cues embedded in a hypermedia program could facilitate college students' near and far transfer problem solving in biology learning. It was assumed…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cues, Higher Education, Hypermedia
Problems in Constructing an Observation Instrument for Instructional Cues: A Pilot Study. Twente Educational Memorandum No. 20.
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de Bruyn, I.; Tomic, W. – 1980
This study dealt with the construction of an observation instrument for instructional cues. Cues are defined as a complex of instructions, methods, and conditions by which students both learn the material and learn to apply the material. As part of the "Classroom Environment Study: Teaching for Learning," the pilot study began a review of the…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cues, Elementary Secondary Education