Self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies can be domain specific. However, it remains unclear whether this specificity extends to different subtopics within a single subject domain. In this study, we collected data from 210 college students engaged in a computer-based learning environment to examine the heterogeneous manifestations of learning…

Metacognition and self-regulated learning (SLR) have been advocated by many and have significant support being seen as a potentially effective and low cost way of impacting learning. Fundamentally, the underlying supposition is that metacognition and SRL are important to learning, and thus raise attainment, and various studies have established…

Discusses ways in which technology can affect learning, beginning with the nature of the learning process. Topics addressed include characteristics in the educational encounter, i.e., exposition, explanation, challenge, assessment, and motivation; characteristics and roles of students and teachers; matching appropriate technology with particular…

This study attempted to: (1) identify differences, among full-time academic faculty in eight disciplines and five major institutional types, regarding their goals for classroom instruction, their assumptions about undergraduate students and the conditions under which students learn best, and their teaching practices; and (2) determine which of the…

The purpose of the research program described here was to investigate college students' approaches to learning, and to determine the extent to which these reflected the effects of teaching and assessment demands rather than representing relatively stable characteristics of the individual learners. There were six main areas within the program: (1)…