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Situational Interest and Academic Achievement in the Active-Learning Classroom
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Rotgans, Jerome I.; Schmidt, Henk G. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The aim of the present study was to investigate how situational interest develops over time and how it is related to academic achievement in an active-learning classroom. Five measures of situational interest were administered at critical points in time to 69 polytechnic students during a one-day, problem-based learning session. Results revealed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Active Learning, Problem Based Learning, College Students
The Impact of Text Coherence on Learning by Self-Explanation
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Ainsworth, Shaaron; Burcham, Sarah – Learning and Instruction, 2007
Previous research has shown that encouraging learners to explain material to themselves as they study can increase their understanding. Furthermore, different types of material (e.g. text or diagrams) influence learners' self-explanation behaviour. This study explores whether the coherence of text impacts upon the self-explanation effect.…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension, Models
Supporting Simulation-Based Learning; The Effects of Model Progression and Assignments on Definitional and Intuitive Knowledge.
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Swaak, Janine; Van Joolingen, Wouter R.; de Jong, Ton – Learning and Instruction, 1998
Sixty-three college students worked with a computer simulation in which gradually increasing model complexity (model progression), model progression plus small assignments, or a control condition without either were used. Definition knowledge increased for all three conditions, but intuitive knowledge gain was greater for the two experimental…
Descriptors: Assignments, College Students, Computer Simulation, Definitions
Testing an Instructional Model in a University Educational Setting from the Student's Perspective
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Betoret, Fernando Domenech – Learning and Instruction, 2006
We tested a theoretical model that hypothesized relationships between several variables from input, process and product in an educational setting, from the university student's perspective, using structural equation modeling. In order to carry out the analysis, we measured in sequential order the input (referring to students' personal…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Structural Equation Models, Learning Processes
An Empirical Test of the Impact of Primitive Intuitive Models of Operations on Solving Word Problems with a Multiplicative Structure.
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De Corte, Erik; Verschaffel, Lieven – Learning and Instruction, 1996
Results of a study involving 107 sixth graders, 107 secondary school students, and 99 college education majors support the basic hypothesis of the intuitive model of solving multiplicative problems proposed by E. Fischbein and others (1985) but show that the theory does not account for all the empirical data. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Education Majors, Educational Theories, Elementary School Students