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Direct linkFischer, Frank; Bauer, Elisabeth; Seidel, Tina; Schmidmaier, Ralf; Radkowitsch, Anika; Neuhaus, Birgit J.; Hofer, Sarah I.; Sommerhoff, Daniel; Ufer, Stefan; Kuhn, Jochen; Küchemann, Stefan; Sailer, Michael; Koenen, Jenna; Gartmeier, Martin; Berberat, Pascal; Frenzel, Anne; Heitzmann, Nicole; Holzberger, Doris; Pfeffer, Jürgen; Lewalter, Doris; Niklas, Frank; Schmidt-Hertha, Bernhard; Gollwitzer, Mario; Vorholzer, Andreas; Chernikova, Olga; Schons, Christian; Pickal, Amadeus J.; Bannert, Maria; Michaeli, Tilman; Stadler, Matthias; Fischer, Martin R. – Information and Learning Sciences, 2022
Purpose: To advance the learning of professional practices in teacher education and medical education, this conceptual paper aims to introduce the idea of representational scaffolding for digital simulations in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: This study outlines the ideas of core practices in two important fields of higher…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods, Computer Simulation, Higher Education
Vogel, Freydis; Kollar, Ingo; Ufer, Stefan; Strohmaier, Anselm; Reiss, Kristina; Fischer, Frank – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2021
Argumentative scripts for computer-supported collaborative learning are scaffolds that prompt learners to take over distributed roles and to move through a sequence of activities that specify an argumentative learning discourse. Argumentative scripts may lead to suboptimal effects on learning outcomes when their level of scaffolding does not fit…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Mathematics Education, College Freshmen, Programming
Fischer, Frank – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2018
Research on learning communities has developed as a perspective radically different from teacher-led instruction. This might be a main reason for why scaffolding is rarely foregrounded in work on learning communities. This contribution analyzes how four recent approaches to learning communities address scaffolding and identifies three different…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Correlation, Cooperative Learning
Radkowitsch, Anika; Vogel, Freydis; Fischer, Frank – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2020
Scripting computer-supported collaborative learning has been shown to greatly enhance learning, but is often criticized for hindering learners' agency and thus undermining learners' motivation. Beyond that, what makes some CSCL scripts particularly effective for learning is still a conundrum. This meta-analysis synthesizes the results of 53…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Learning Motivation
Chernikova, Olga; Heitzmann, Nicole; Fink, Maximilian Christian; Timothy, Venance; Seidel, Tina; Fischer, Frank – Educational Psychology Review, 2020
Facilitating diagnostic competences is an important objective of higher education for many professions. This meta-analysis of 35 empirical studies builds on a conceptual framework and investigates the role of problem-solving, scaffolding, and context to foster diagnostic competences in learners with lower and higher professional knowledge bases. A…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Higher Education, Guidelines, Problem Solving
Vogel, Freydis; Kollar, Ingo; Fischer, Frank; Reiss, Kristina; Ufer, Stefan – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2022
Collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples have been described as powerful scaffolds to support skill acquisition in CSCL. While CSCL scripts particularly facilitate argumentative discourse within groups, heuristic worked examples provide heuristics and worked out pathways to solve domain-specific tasks. Yet, both scripts and heuristic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
Chernikova, Olga; Heitzmann, Nicole; Stadler, Matthias; Holzberger, Doris; Seidel, Tina; Fischer, Frank – Review of Educational Research, 2020
Simulation-based learning offers a wide range of opportunities to practice complex skills in higher education and to implement different types of scaffolding to facilitate effective learning. This meta-analysis includes 145 empirical studies and investigates the effectiveness of different scaffolding types and technology in simulation-based…
Descriptors: Simulation, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Csanadi, Andras; Eagan, Brendan; Kollar, Ingo; Shaffer, David Williamson; Fischer, Frank – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2018
Research on "computer-supported collaborative learning" (CSCL) is often concerned with the question of how scaffolds or other characteristics of learning may affect learners' social and cognitive engagement. Such engagement in socio-cognitive activities frequently materializes in discourse. In quantitative analyses of discourse,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Cooperative Learning, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Download full textHeitzman, Nicole; Seidel, Tina; Opitz, Ansgar; Hetmanek, Andreas; Wecker, Christof; Fischer, Martin; Ufer, Stefan; Schmidmaier, Ralf; Neuhaus, Birgit; Siebeck, Matthias; Stürmer, Kathleen; Obersteiner, Andreas; Reiss, Kristina; Girwidz, Raimund; Fischer, Frank – Frontline Learning Research, 2019
We propose a conceptual framework which may guide research on fostering diagnostic competences in simulations in higher education. We first review and link research perspectives on the components and the development of diagnostic competences, taken from medical and teacher education. Applying conceptual knowledge in diagnostic activities is…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Teacher Education, Competency Based Education, Simulation
Schwaighofer, Matthias; Vogel, Freydis; Kollar, Ingo; Ufer, Stefan; Strohmaier, Anselm; Terwedow, Ilka; Ottinger, Sarah; Reiss, Kristina; Fischer, Frank – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2017
Mathematical argumentation skills (MAS) are considered an important outcome of mathematics learning, particularly in secondary and tertiary education. As MAS are complex, an effective way of supporting their acquisition may require combining different scaffolds. However, how to combine different scaffolds is a delicate issue, as providing learners…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Persuasive Discourse, Cooperative Learning, Scripts
Vogel, Freydis; Wecker, Christof; Kollar, Ingo; Fischer, Frank – Educational Psychology Review, 2017
Scripts for computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) offer socio-cognitive scaffolding for learners to engage in collaborative activities that are considered beneficial for learning. Yet, CSCL scripts are often criticized for hampering naturally emerging collaboration. Research on the effectiveness of CSCL scripts has shown divergent…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Electronic Learning, Cooperative Learning, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Wecker, Christof; Rachel, Alexander; Heran-Dörr, Eva; Waltner, Christine; Wiesner, Hartmut; Fischer, Frank – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
In the course of inquiry activities similar to those of real scientists, learners are supposed to develop knowledge both on the level of observable phenomena and on the level of explanatory theories. However, some theories involve theoretical entities (e.g., "Weiss domains") that cannot be observed directly and therefore may be hard to…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Theories, Inquiry, Science Instruction
Stegmann, Karsten; Weinberger, Armin; Fischer, Frank – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2007
Online discussions provide opportunities for learners to engage in argumentative debate, but learners rarely formulate well-grounded arguments or benefit individually from participating in online discussions. Learners often do not explicitly warrant their arguments and fail to construct counterarguments (incomplete formal argumentation structure),…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Persuasive Discourse, Group Discussion, Learning Strategies
Kollar, Ingo; Fischer, Frank – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2006
This article's main claim is that to support individuals' development toward becoming self-regulated learners requires certain amounts of other-regulation, i.e. scaffolding. Starting from this assertion, we discuss 6 issues that surfaced in the 5 articles of this special issue. First, we argue that designers need good reasons for taking freedom…
Descriptors: Prerequisites, Freedom, Learning Strategies, Independent Study
Kollar, Ingo; Fischer, Frank; Hesse, Friedrich W. – Educational Psychology Review, 2006
This article presents a conceptual analysis of collaboration scripts used in face-to-face and computer-mediated collaborative learning. Collaboration scripts are scaffolds that aim to improve collaboration through structuring the interactive processes between two or more learning partners. Collaboration scripts consist of at least five components:…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning, Behavioral Objectives, Learning Activities
