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Mochamad Guntur; Yoppy Wahyu Purnomo – Online Learning, 2024
Self-regulated learning interventions influence students' learning outcomes in online and blended environments. A review of the literature about self-regulated learning strategies reveals both significant and non-significant effects on learning outcomes in online and blended environments. The aim of this study was to calculate the common effect…
Descriptors: Self Management, Online Courses, Blended Learning, Educational Technology
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Tise, Joseph C.; Sperling, Rayne A.; Dann, Michael S.; Young, Taylor M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Analogical reasoning is an important type of cognition often used by experts across domains. Little research, however, has investigated how generating analogies can support college students' self-regulated learning (SRL) of biology. This study therefore evaluated a contextualized cognitive learning strategy intervention designed to teach students…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Learning Strategies, Biology, Science Instruction
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Ahmad, Faizan; Ahmed, Zeeshan; Muneeb, Sara – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2021
An improvement in cognitive performance through brain games play is implicit yet progressive. It is necessary to explore factors that potentially accelerate this improvement process. Like various other significant yet unexplored aspects, it is equally essential to establish a performative (fusion of accuracy and efficiency) insight about players'…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Brain, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
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Loibl, Katharina; Roll, Ido; Rummel, Nikol – Educational Psychology Review, 2017
Recently, there has been a growing interest in learning approaches that combine two phases: an initial problem-solving phase followed by an instruction phase (PS-I). Two often cited examples of instructional approaches following the PS-I scheme include Productive Failure and Invention. Despite the growing interest in PS-I approaches, to the best…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Program Design, Program Effectiveness
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Virkkula, Esa; Nissilä, Säde-Pirkko – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2017
One of the current spearhead projects in Finnish education is learning to learn. Learning strategies have been examined from a variety of perspectives. They are policies that either promote or hinder learning. They are any behaviours or thoughts that facilitate encoding in such a way that knowledge integration and retrieval are enhanced.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Memory
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Boyle, Joseph R.; Rosen, Sonia M.; Forchelli, Gina – Education 3-13, 2016
This mixed-methods study analysed over 200 interviews from 20 seventh-grade students with learning disabilities (LD). Students were instructed how to use a note-taking intervention during science lectures. The interview analyses were supported by pre- and post-intervention quantitative data. Data suggest that the intervention helped students…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Metacognition, Notetaking, Learning Disabilities
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Aharony, Noa; Bar-Ilan, Judit – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2016
MOOCs are open, online courses that use information technologies to enhance the learning experience and attract various people from the entire world. The current study uses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), as well as personal characteristics such as learning strategies, cognitive appraisal, and Kuhlthau's (1991) model of information seeking…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Student Attitudes, Technology Uses in Education
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Filipova, Anna A. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2015
This study examines the impact of thought self-leadership education on graduate students' perceptions of ethics and competencies in the execution of cognitive strategies (beliefs and assumptions, self-talk, and mental imagery) in a graduate public administration program's health care administration law course. The results obtained from Wilcoxon…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Ethics, Competence
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Kuo, Fan-Ray; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Lee, Chun-Chia – Computers & Education, 2012
Fostering problem-solving abilities has long been recognized as an important issue in education; however, past studies have shown that it is difficult and challenging to find effective learning strategies or tools for improving students' problem-solving abilities. To cope with this problem, in this study, a hybrid approach that integrates the…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Experimental Groups, Learning Strategies, Problem Solving
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Glogger, Inga; Schwonke, Rolf; Holzapfel, Lars; Nuckles, Matthias; Renkl, Alexander – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Recently, there have been efforts to rethink assessment. Instead of informing about (relatively stable) learner characteristics, assessment should assist instruction by looking at the learning process, facilitating feedback about what students' next step in learning could be. Similarly, new forms of strategy assessment aim at capturing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Student Characteristics, Formative Evaluation
Swanson, H. Lee; Lussier, Catherine; Orosco, Michael – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
Although current categories of learning disabilities include as specific disabilities calculation and mathematical problem solving [see IDEA reauthorization, 2004, Sec. 300.8(c)(10)], the majority of research focuses on calculation disabilities. Previous studies have shown, however, that deficits in word problem solving difficulties are persistent…
Descriptors: Sentences, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Problem Solving
Looney, Janet W. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
Do some forms of student (and school) assessment hinder the introduction of innovative educational practices and the development of innovation skills in education systems? This report focuses on the impact of high-stake summative assessment on innovation and argues that it is possible to reconcile high-stakes assessments and examinations through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Summative Evaluation
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Segers, Mien; Martens, Rob; Van den Bossche, Piet – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
In order to stimulate student teachers to thoroughly comprehend the main variables influencing their work, teaching and assessment strategies in teacher education have changed significantly. One of the changes in the assessment of student teachers in teacher education programs is the use of case-based assessment instruments. Such instruments…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
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Fenollar, Pedro; Roman, Sergio; Cuestas, Pedro J. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: The prediction and explanation of academic performance and the investigation of the factors relating to the academic success and persistence of students are topics of utmost importance in higher education. Aims: The main aim of the present study is to develop and test a conceptual framework in a university context, where the effects of…
Descriptors: Class Size, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
DeJoy, Judith Klippel; Mills, Helen – 1987
The Personal Adult Learning Lab, part of the Georgia Center for continuing Education, was established to (1) provide the type of learning environment that can support adult learners in their efforts to develop and direct their own learning projects and (2) enable researchers to learn more about the nature of self-directed learning as demonstrated…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Continuing Education
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