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Hagemans, Mieke G.; van der Meij, Hans; de Jong, Ton – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Students often need support to optimize their learning in inquiry learning environments. In 2 studies, we investigated the effects of adding concept-map-based support to a simulation-based inquiry environment on kinematics. The concept map displayed the main domain concepts and their relations, while dynamic color coding of the concepts displayed…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Assignments, Concept Mapping, Computer Simulation
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Kanar, Adam M.; Bell, Bradford S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Adaptive guidance is an instructional intervention that helps learners to make use of the control inherent in technology-based instruction. The present research investigated the interactive effects of guidance design (i.e., framing of guidance information) and individual differences (i.e., pretraining motivation and ability) on learning basic and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Guidance, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Soemer, Alexander; Schwan, Stephan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
The literature on learning with animations has focused so far on subject matters in which changes over time depicted in the animation are mapped onto changes over time in the reality of the concepts to be learned. The experiments presented in this article, however, suggest that also a nontemporal mapping of facts, as in paired-associate learning…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Paired Associate Learning, Control Groups, Cues