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The present work describes an experience of educational innovation in a university context. Its aim was to determine the relationship
between students’ frequency of use of online self-assessment with feedback and their final performance on the course, taking
into account both learners’ motivation and perceived usefulness of these resources for their learning process. Furthermore,
we studied the relationship between metacognitive variables and academic performance and/or execution of activities aimed
at learning the course content. To this end we created self-assessment material with the Hot Potatoes educational program and assessed the degree to which students took advantage of the tool, their satisfaction with it and
their perceived knowledge, using ad hoc questionnaires. The results indicate better academic performance in those students
that use interactive self-assessment. It should be pointed out that even students with low motivation levels made use of this
teaching tool. Finally, a relationship was found between metacognitive variables and students’ effort and performance. We
discuss the need to include self-assessment in the curriculum, with a view to improving students’ metacognitive knowledge. 相似文献
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It is widely recognized that metacognition is an important mediator for successful and high-level learning, especially in
higher education. Nevertheless, a majority of higher education students possess insufficient metacognitive knowledge and regulation
skills to self-regulate their learning adequately. This study explores the potential of reciprocal peer tutoring to promote
both university students’ metacognitive knowledge and their metacognitive regulation skills. The study was conducted in a
naturalistic higher education setting, involving 67 students tutoring each other during a complete semester. A multi-method
pretest–posttest design was used combining a self-report questionnaire, assessing students’ metacognitive knowledge and their
perceived metacognitive skilfulness, with the analysis of think-aloud protocols, revealing students’ actual use of metacognitive
strategies. Results indicate no significant pretest to posttest differences in students’ metacognitive knowledge, nor in their
perception of metacognitive skill use. In contrast, significant changes are observed in students’ actual metacognitive regulation.
At posttest, students demonstrate significantly more frequent and more varied use of metacognitive regulation, especially
during the orientation, monitoring, and evaluation phases. Furthermore, our findings point to an increase in more profound
and higher-quality strategy use at posttest. 相似文献
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Todd Campbell Shaing Kwei Wang Hui-Yin Hsu Aaron M. Duffy Paul G. Wolf 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(5):505-511
This position paper proposes the enhancement of teacher and student learning in science classrooms by tapping the enormous
potential of information communication and technologies (ICTs) as cognitive tools for engaging students in scientific inquiry.
This paper serves to challenge teacher-held assumptions about students learning science ‘from technology’ with a framework
and examples of students learning science ‘with technology’. Whereas a high percentage of students are finding their way in
using ICTs outside of school, for the most part they currently are not doing so inside of school in ways that they find meaningful
and relevant to their lives. Instead, the pedagogical approaches that are most often experienced are out-of-step with how
students use ICTs outside of schools and are not supportive of learning framed by constructivism. Here we describe a theoretical
and pedagogical foundation for better connecting the two worlds of students’ lives: life in school and life outside of school.
This position paper is in response to the changing landscape of students’ lives. The position is transformative in nature
because it proposes the use of cyber-enabled resources for cultivating and leveraging students new literacy skills by learning
‘with technology’ to enhance science learning. 相似文献
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Wai-Chung Ho 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2007,8(1):12-26
The core purpose of this paper is to draw together research issues and concrete problems with the use of multimedia technology
at the graduate level in higher music education by examining one university’s responses to the challenges posed by the use
of multimedia technology as a teaching and learning aid for music education. Between June and July 2006, this study conducted
a simple questionnaire and interview survey of 16 postgraduate students. The results suggest that music students are confident
in their abilities to use multimedia technologies but that many do not believe that the introduction of multimedia technologies
into the curriculum will improve the quality of their education. Whilst students’ motivation to learn depends on their interest
in the subject and their lecturer’s approach, the incorporation of technology should always be relevant to each individual
module. The results of this case study could help other universities respond to the changes brought about by electronic learning
and other educational multimedia technology. 相似文献
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Zeynep Mine Derince 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2011,29(1):377-395
After passing their university entry exam, students who wish to study a subject at one of the Turkish universities offering
English-medium courses attend a one-year preparatory class. At the end of this, they need to pass an English language proficiency
exam in order to be admitted to their chosen course of study. The existing curriculum for such preparatory classes is designed
to be taught in English only and very much oriented towards passing the concluding standardised language proficiency exam
at the end. This approach does not teach the students any of the skills they will need for their further study, such as how
to think critically or to question their own conditioning and political attitudes. Using a different methodology, the author
of this paper conducted an in-class project with students learning English in a Turkish state university’s preparatory class.
The project was carried out within a framework of critical pedagogy and used both Turkish and English during the phases of
research and discussion. Evaluating the students’ own reflections on the experience as well as their final presentations which
were prepared in English, the author suggests that the critical pedagogy approach in combination with a maximum use of students’
means of expression and language resources led to a more meaningful learning experience – both for the students and for herself
– as well as a more efficient and lasting English language proficiency. 相似文献
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Anne Haarala-Muhonen Mirja Ruohoniemi Nina Katajavuori Sari Lindblom-Yl?nne 《Learning Environments Research》2011,14(2):155-169
The present study explored differences in students’ perceptions of their teaching–learning environments in three professional
academic disciplines at the University of Helsinki, using a modified version of the Experiences of Teaching & Learning Questionnaire.
A total of 426 first-year students from the Faculties of Law, Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine participated in the study.
When six scales measuring students’ perceptions of their teaching–learning environments were devised, veterinary and pharmacy
students experienced their teaching–learning environment more positively than law students. Significant differences in students’
perceptions were found between disciplines on the four scales of Alignment, Staff Enthusiasm and Support, Constructive Feedback
and Support from Other Students. Comparisons between the disciplines helped in recognising special features of each discipline
from novice students’ points of view. The questionnaire was found to provide valuable information about the quality of teaching
and learning. 相似文献
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Using a two-tier test in examining Taiwan graduate students’ perspectives on paraphrasing strategies
Yu-Chih Sun 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2009,10(3):399-408
This study examines Taiwanese English as a foreign language (EFL) graduate students’ perspectives on paraphrasing strategies.
A two-layer scenario survey was developed to identify the reasoning behind students’ judgments that certain paraphrasing is
appropriate or inappropriate. The first-layer scenario survey is in a true–false format that consists of nine paraphrasing
scenarios and that served to elicit from students their declarative knowledge of appropriate paraphrasing strategies. The
second-layer scenario survey is in an open-ended question format that explores students’ explanatory knowledge underlying
their first-layer choices. In addition, an attitude survey and a demographic survey were designed and implemented to explore
learner variables in relation to the learners’ perspectives on paraphrasing strategies. A total of 141 EFL graduate students
participated in the study. The results shed considerable light on students’ diverse perceptions and reasoning regarding paraphrasing
strategies. More than half of the students considered surface-level paraphrasing (patchwriting) to be acceptable strategy
use. Significant correlation was found between students’ responses to the acceptability of paraphrasing strategies and the
following factors: (1) perceived difficulty in paraphrasing, (2) perceived value of appropriate source use, (3) perceived
competence in overcoming the temptation to plagiarize, (4) perceived disadvantage as a foreign-language learner with paraphrasing,
(5) gender, and (6) paraphrasing-related training. Pedagogical implications of the results are discussed. 相似文献
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Tricia Ryan 《TechTrends》2002,46(4):44-48
The process of constructing A Portrait of Academic Life web resource has included careful evidence gathering and analysis
of student performance necessary to assess learning and give useful feedback to increase the students’ ability to use information
effectively in education. The students, too, develop self-assessment and reflective skills as they create online research
portfolios. The online resources model new technologyenhanced strategies for teaching and learning that support standards-based
teacher education programs in higher institutions. Other artifacts contained in A Portrait of Academic Life include digital
video vignettes of students actively completing course assignments and reflecting on the learning process, and instructor
reflections on teaching strategies to improve learning outcomes. As a culminating course activity, students showcase their
online research portfolios at a gallery walk. The students were tremendously excited to present the wealth of information
they have so carefully collected using the powerful technology tools available for their use in the teacher education program
at Towson University. The innovation and originality presented in the form of student online research portfolios offered fresh
perspectives to the honored guests. Likewise, it will enormously help students and faculty to see examples of the process
of transforming traditional research papers into rich, informative online research portfolios. 相似文献
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The purpose of this qualitative interpretive research study was to examine high school students’ written scientific explanations
during biology laboratory investigations. Specifically, we characterized the types of epistemologies and forms of reasoning
involved in students’ scientific explanations and students’ perceptions of scientific explanations. Sixteen students from
a rural high school in the Southeastern United States were the participants of this research study. The data consisted of
students’ laboratory reports and individual interviews. The results indicated that students’ explanations were primarily based
on first-hand knowledge gained in the science laboratories and mostly representing procedural recounts. Most students did
not give explanations based on a theory or a principle and did not use deductive reasoning in their explanations. The students
had difficulties explaining phenomena that involved intricate cause–effect relationships. Students perceived scientific explanation
as the final step of a scientific inquiry and as an account of what happened in the inquiry process, and held a constructivist–empiricist
view of scientific explanations. Our results imply the need for more explicit guidance to help students construct better scientific
explanations and explicit teaching of the explanatory genre with particular focus on theoretical and causal explanations. 相似文献
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Instructional effectiveness of higher-order questions: The devil is in the detail of students’ use of questions 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Research has repeatedly established that the theoretical benefits of various scaffolds do not match their actual impact on
learning. It has been argued that the instructional effectiveness of scaffolds largely depends on very detailed aspects of
the learning activities associated with the scaffolds within specific environments. From this perspective and, in order to
predict and control learning outcomes in the context of specific instances of scaffolds, there is a need for a detailed cognitive
analysis of learning activities (e.g. analyses of students’ scaffold use). Accordingly, the current study investigated how
students actually use adjunct questions while studying a text and how the quantity and quality of usage determine students’
learning outcomes (performance). Forty-two university students in two conditions were required to study a short science text
for 15 min. Results revealed that the quality of students’ use of instructional devices accounted for their final performance. 相似文献
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In Finnish VET, students’ work experience is explicitly defined as workplace learning, instead of the practice of already
learnt skills. Therefore, vocational students’ learning periods in the workplace are goal-oriented, guided and assessed. This
paper examines the characteristics of students’ workplace learning and compares them with the characteristics of employees’
workplace learning. The data were collected with an Internet questionnaire from final-year vocational students (N = 3106). In total, 1603 students (52 %) answered the questionnaire. The data were analysed using quantitative methods. The
results indicate that features typical of employees’ workplace learning can also be found in student learning as well. However,
VET-related workplace learning has a number of characteristics that have not been brought to light in research on employees’
workplace learning thus far. We suggest that in developing educational practices it would be useful to draw on some of the
features of workplace learning such as the use of collaboration and shared practices; conversely for workplace practices it
would be useful to draw on some of the features of educational practices. For example, by utilising the structures of students’
workplace learning system presented in this study, learning at work could be transformed towards more goal-directed, guided
and assessed activity. 相似文献
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The quality of teachers’ knowledge about how people learn influences students’ learning outcomes. Similarly, the quality of
students’ knowledge about how they learn influences their engagement in self-regulated learning and consequently, their learning
achievement. There is a gap between research findings that support these two premises and teaching–learning practices in classrooms.
In this paper we describe attempts to reduce this gap. In Study 1 we surveyed early adolescent students’ cognitive and metacognitive
strategy use and demonstrated that students’ cognitive and metacognitive strategy knowledge has substantial room for improvement.
In Studies 2 and 3 we collaborated with teachers to embed explicit cognitive and metacognitive strategy instruction, using
learning protocols, into regular class lessons. Studies 2 and 3 showed that the learning protocols slipped readily into teachers’
typical lesson designs, scaffolded teachers’ delivery of strategy instruction, and scaffolded some students’ acquisition of
strategy knowledge, although progress was sometimes slow. Recommendations are presented for supporting teachers and students
to engage with cognitive and metacognitive strategy instruction. 相似文献
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Markus Nivala Roger S?lj? Hans Rystedt Pauliina Kronqvist Erno Lehtinen 《Instructional Science》2012,40(5):799-811
New representational technologies, such as virtual microscopy, create new affordances for medical education. In the article, a study on the following two issues is reported: (a) How does collaborative use of virtual microscopy shape students’ engagement with and learning from virtual slides of tissue specimen? (b) How do visual and conceptual cues scaffold students’ reasoning? Fifteen pairs of medical students participated in two sessions in which the students used a virtual microscope as a diagnostic tool in the context of learning pathology. The slides provided the students with varying levels of visual and conceptual cueing. The sessions were videotaped, and the students’ reasoning while using the microscope was analysed. The students’ written answers were analysed in terms of the findings they made and the diagnoses suggested. At a general level, the results show that students engage actively in this kind of virtually-mediated environment. The visual and/or conceptual cues improve students’ performance, and guide the students’ perception and reasoning in a manner that is productive from the point of view of learning to make clinically relevant observations. Scaffolding students’ reasoning process through cues furthermore assists the students in avoiding the most obvious pitfalls such as overlooking critical areas of a specimen. Overall, visual and conceptual cues improve students’ reasoning in perceptual and cognitive terms, while still allowing space for the making of “relevant mistakes” that may further the students’ diagnostic skills. 相似文献
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In the past decade, there has been an increased emphasis on the preparation of teachers who can effectively engage students
in meaningful mathematics with technology tools. This study presents a closer look at how three prospective teachers interpreted
and developed in their role of facilitating students’ mathematical problem solving with a technology tool. A cycle of planning–experience–reflection
was repeated twice during an undergraduate course to allow the prospective teachers to change their strategies when working
with two different groups of students. Case study methods were used to identify and analyze critical events that occurred
throughout the different phases of the study and how these events may have influenced the prospective teachers’ work with
students. Looking across the cases, several themes emerged. The prospective teachers (1) used their problem solving approaches
to influence their pedagogical decisions; (2) desired to ask questions that would guide students in their solution strategies;
(3) recognized their own struggle in facilitating students’ problem solving and focused on improving their interactions with
students; (4) assumed the role of an explainer for some portion of their work with students; (5) used technological representations
to promote students’ mathematical thinking or focus their attention; and (6) used the technology tools in ways consistent
with the nature of their interactions and perceived role with students. The implications inform the development of an expanded
learning trajectory for what we might expect as prospective teachers develop an understanding of how to teach mathematics
in technology-rich environments. 相似文献
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Montserrat Castelló Anna I?esta Marta Pardo Eva Liesa Reinaldo Martínez-Fernández 《Higher Education》2012,63(1):97-115
This intervention study aimed at helping undergraduate students of psychology learn to use the discursive resources useful
to make academic voice visible in their texts and to improve their writing practices. The intervention involved tutorial meetings
and collaborative revisions in two different learning environments, on-line and face-to face. The final text quality, the
students’ knowledge and the amount and the quality of revisions were assessed in both conditions. Results show that the quality
of the texts improved for both intervention groups in contrast with for control group, and better texts were related with
higher rates of revision and more students’ satisfaction with the intervention. 相似文献
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We elaborated and applied a training programme to teach learning strategies to students in continuing adult education courses in Valencia (Spain) throughout an academic year. We worked with one control group and with one experimental group. These groups were equivalent in terms of pre-test assessments and there was not any significant difference of means either in learning strategies or in marks in Spanish and Maths. We found significant difference of means in the post-test, after the training programme, in learning strategies, and also an important difference in marks. Experimental students improved their learning strategies significantly along with their marks in Spanish and Maths, whereas control students didn’t improve either their learning strategies or their marks. So we obtained generalization and transference of results. We think that these results are important and that they confirm the effectiveness of the methods of the educational intervention which we used. This intervention is placed in the field of learning to learn. 相似文献
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Choon-Lang Quek Angela F. L. Wong Shanti Divaharan Woon-Chia Liu Jarina Peer Michael D. Williams 《Learning Environments Research》2007,10(3):177-187
Project work (PW) provides one of the pathways for students’ self-inquiry learning and collaboration in Singapore schools.
In this context, PW teachers function as facilitators. This study investigated quantitatively how a group of 270 secondary-school
students (aged 14 years) perceived their seven PW teacher-facilitators’ face-to-face interactions with students based on the
Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI), and whether their perceptions of teacher–student interaction during PW classrooms
were related with their attitudes towards PW learning as a whole. Seven out of eight QTI scales were associated with Enjoyment
of Project Work Lessons and two QTI scales were associated with Attitude to Inquiry in Project Work. The findings are discussed
in terms of how teachers who function as facilitators can translate their interpersonal behaviours into effective teaching
strategies for communicating with students and facilitating students’ learning in PW classrooms. 相似文献
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Explicitly informing students about learning goals has been argued to foster intentional learning. This study tested three
theoretical hypotheses regarding the facilitating effects of learning goals by investigating 72 students’ actual reading behaviour
and cognitive processes (i.e., the use of learning goals). Participants studied a text presented on 15 separate computer screens
with/without learning goals. In line with the three hypotheses, the analyses focused on three aspects: students’ interpretations
of the learning goals, information selection processes and monitoring behaviour. Results indicated variability among students
in their perceptions of the learning goals in terms of goal consistency and specificity. Students in the learning goal condition
recorded more goal-relevant information in their notes. However, only few students deliberately used learning goals to monitor
their goal-directed activities while studying the text. Analysis of students’ reading behaviour and cognitive processes suggests
that the absence of significant performance differences between the conditions can be explained by referring to students’
actual use of learning goals. 相似文献
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Hein Broekkamp Bernadette H. A. M. Van Hout-Wolters 《Educational Psychology Review》2007,19(4):401-428
According to theories of students’ test preparation, students may optimize their test performance by paying special attention
to important information and processing this information in ways that are appropriate to the type of questions included in
the forthcoming test. However, research is unclear about the conditions under which students adapt study strategies to the
demands of test preparation tasks. Moreover, little is known about the processes and abilities involved. In this article,
we present a theoretical model that integrates various factors that seem relevant to strategy adaptation in test preparation,
including the teacher’s intended task demands, students’ perceptions of these demands, students’ personal goals for studying,
and their ability to adapt and implement strategies. The aim of our model is to stimulate further research on strategy adaptation,
which may eventually provide evidence-based guidelines that could help teachers support the development of students’ strategy
adaptability and use tests as learning tools. 相似文献
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Simulated Sustainable Societies: Students’ Reflections on Creating Future Cities in Computer Games 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
The empirical study, in this article, involved 42 students (ages 14–15), who used the urban simulation computer game SimCity
4 to create models of sustainable future cities. The aim was to explore in what ways the simulated “real” worlds provided
by this game could be a potential facilitator for science learning contexts. The topic investigated is in what way interactions
in this gaming environment, and reflections about these interactions, can form a context where the students deal with real
world problems, and where they can contextualise and apply their scientific knowledge. Focus group interviews and video recordings
were used to gather data on students’ reflections on their cities, and on sustainable development. The findings indicate that
SimCity 4 actually contributes to creating meaningful educational situations in science classrooms, and that computer games
can constitute an important artefact that may facilitate contextualisation and make students’ use of science concepts and
theories more explicit. 相似文献