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Florence R. Sullivan Claire E. Hamilton Danielle A. Allessio Rachel J. Boit Alexandra D. Deschamps Tony Sindelar German E. Vargas Ramos Anthony Randall Nicholas Wilson Yan Zhu 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2011,59(5):619-644
In this paper we report the results of a study which investigated the affordances of multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs)
for collaborative learning from a design perspective. Utilizing a mixed methods approach, we conducted a comparative study
of the effect of varying representational and interactional design features on a collaborative design activity in three online
synchronous environments. We compared environments featuring multiple modes of interaction (MUVEs), shared representations
(text chat and 2D still images) and text-only features. Sixty-one students enrolled in an undergraduate course on Child Development
participated in the study. Participants were asked to design a theoretically-based, developmentally appropriate, preschool
classroom setting. Students were randomly assigned to one of three online learning environments that provided varying levels
of representation and interaction. Significant differences in collaborative problem solving interactions were found. Participants
in the shared representations + text condition evidenced stronger learning outcomes as regards substantive discussion and
integration of child development concepts; while participants in the MUVE condition reported the most enjoyment with the experience.
These findings are explained by the concepts of representational guidance, representational bias, educational affordances
and interface design metaphors. Suggestions for the design of MUVEs for collaborative learning are provided. 相似文献
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Bas Kolloffel Tessa H. S. Eysink Ton de Jong Pascal Wilhelm 《Instructional Science》2009,37(6):503-517
The current study investigated the effects of different external representational formats on learning combinatorics and probability
theory in an inquiry based learning environment. Five conditions were compared in a pre-test post-test design: three conditions
each using a single external representational format (Diagram, Arithmetic, or Text), and two conditions using multiple representations
(Text + Arithmetic or Diagram + Arithmetic). The major finding of the study is that a format that combines text and arithmetics
was most beneficial for learning, in particular with regard to procedural knowledge, that is the ability to execute action
sequences to solve problems. Diagrams were found to negatively affect learning and to increase cognitive load. Combining diagrams
with arithmetical representations reduced cognitive load, but did not improve learning outcomes. 相似文献
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Prior research shows that representational competencies that enable students to use graphical representations to reason and solve tasks is key to learning in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics domains. We focus on two types of representational competencies: (1) sense making of connections by verbally explaining how different representations map to one another, and (2) perceptual fluency that allows students to fast and effortlessly use perceptual features to make connections among representations. Because these different competencies are acquired via different types of learning processes, they require different types of instructional support: sense-making activities and fluency-building activities. In a prior experiment, we showed benefits for combining sense-making activities and fluency-building activities. In the current work, we test how to combine these two forms of instructional support, specifically, whether students should first work on sense-making activities or on fluency-building activities. This comparison allows us to investigate whether sense-making competencies enhance students’ acquisition of perceptual fluency (sense-making-first hypothesis) or whether perceptual fluency enhances students’ acquisition of sense-making competencies (fluency-first hypothesis). We conducted a lab experiment with 74 students from grades 3–5 working with an intelligent tutoring system for fractions. We assessed learning processes and learning outcomes related to representational competencies and domain knowledge. Overall, our results support the sense-making-first hypothesis, but not the fluency-first hypothesis. 相似文献
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This study reports an intervention to initiate environmental learning and facilitate pro-environmental behaviour. The purpose was to examine the impact of ambient learning displays on energy consumption and conservation at the workplace, more specifically the evaluation of learning outcome and behaviour change. Using a quasi-experimental design, the empirical study was conducted among employees working at a university campus. For the experimental treatments, ambient learning display prototypes were varied on two design dimensions, namely representational fidelity and notification level. The results do not provide clear evidence that the design of the displays influences learning outcome or that the displays lead to pro-environmental behaviour change. Nevertheless, the sole deployment of the display prototypes eased the comprehension of the information provided and lowered the need for additional information. Thus, ambient learning displays provide a promising framework in the context of environmental learning and beyond. 相似文献
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Representational competence is a target of novel learning environments given the assumption that improved representational competence improves learning in science. There exists little evidence, however, that improving representational competence is positively correlated with learning outcomes across science disciplines. In this report, we argue that the previously reported weak relationships between representational competence and science learning outcomes have resulted from designs that do not explicitly analyze the discipline‐specific skills related to the representational competence construct. Here, we demonstrate through a detailed analysis of students' representation use that at least two demonstrated skills comprising representational competence (e.g., construction and selection) are not strongly related to improved conceptual understanding in the domain. We discuss the implications of these results for the design of future learning environments that aim to improve learning through improved representational competence. 相似文献
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本科毕业设计中群组指导模式的实证研究 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
本科毕设的群组指导模式改变了传统的"指导教师-学生"之间的一对一指导方式,将毕设学生组成群组,有效利用群组中学生之间的相互学习、研讨、激励和交叉检查,促进群组内知识、技能的传播和共享,通过群组活动完成毕业设计指导。群组指导模式的核心原则是平等交流、激发自主性、思维开放和人际互动,其具体内容包括群组构成的形式、群组环境的搭建和群组活动的开展。通过在一届完整的本科毕业设计指导过程中应用群组指导模式,以调查问卷的形式对采用群组指导模式和未采用群组指导模式的两组样本进行了数据统计和分析总结。实证研究证明,群组指导模式在提升毕业设计指导的质量和效率及提高毕设学生的自我满意度方面都取得了较好的效果。群组指导模式是本科毕业设计指导模式的一种创新,具有明确的思想基础和可操作性,具有推广的价值。 相似文献
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This article presents a designed learning environment intended to engage students in learning about the relationships among multiple representations as they work together on a shared task. Over the course of several extended problem-solving sessions, groups developed several successive alignments of participants and representations as they learned to solve increasingly difficult tasks. Our findings highlight the emergent and often unexpected meanings that learners established for representational tools as their groups reorganized into increasingly effective problem-solving ensembles. Our findings echo those of prior research regarding learners' considerable competence and creativity in interpreting and applying distributed representational tools, as well as the careful coordination among learners involved in establishing and acting on those interpretations. Challenges in this design space include instances in our data where students capitalized on connections among representations without really trying to understand those connections, temporarily undermined the distributed character of the representations, and worked more efficiently by reducing the number of participants actively involved in breaking codes. Our findings indicate that managing these challenges requires presenting groups with regular opportunities to reconsider and reorganize their roles, and to experiment with different meanings and uses of flexible tools in the context of tasks with carefully sequenced levels of difficulty. 相似文献
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This is a study of the Connections project; a collaborative design exercise between Birmingham School of Architecture and Landscape, and local primary schools. It explains the processes and outcomes of this annual collaborative design exercise, in which students of architecture join forces with primary school children, to explore connections between architecture, and various subjects of the National Curriculum. It shows how graphical learning methods, from architectural education, have been adopted successfully across the curriculum at primary level. Three phases of the project, and their different kinds of graphic communication, are identified. Learning in each of these is explored with supporting evidence from students’ diaries and interviews with teachers. Two examples of recent project work are used to show processes and outcomes. The first, a Science and Architecture project, demonstrates how methods of working gave a clear relationship between abstract ideas, and representational models and drawings. The second illustrates quality of outcomes, and depth of understanding in an Art and Architecture project. Finally the study introduces ongoing research, based on the Connections project experience, which addresses the scope of learning at both curriculum levels. 相似文献
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Vaughan Prain Russell Tytler Suzanne Peterson 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(6):787-808
There has been extensive research on children’s understanding of evaporation, but representational issues entailed in this understanding have not been investigated in depth. This study explored three students’ engagement with science concepts relating to evaporation through various representational modes, such as diagrams, verbal accounts, gestures, and captioned drawings. This engagement entailed students (a) clarifying their thinking through exploring representational resources; (b) developing understanding of what these representations signify; and (c) learning how to construct representational aspects of scientific explanation. The study involved a sequence of classroom lessons on evaporation and structured interviews with nine children, and found that a focus on representational challenges provided fresh insights into the conceptual task involved in learning science. The findings suggest that teacher‐mediated negotiation of representational issues as students construct different modal accounts can support enriched learning by enabling both (a) richer conceptual understanding by students; and (b) enhanced teacher insights into students’ thinking. 相似文献
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Chemistry knowledge can be represented at macro-, micro- and symbolic levels, and learning a chemistry topic requires students to engage in multiple representational activities. This study focused on scaffolding for inter-level connection-making in learning chemistry knowledge with graphical simulations. We also tested whether different sequences of representational activities produced different student learning outcomes in learning a chemistry topic. A sample of 129 seventh graders participated in this study. In a simulation-based environment, participants completed three representational activities to learn several ideal gas law concepts. We conducted a 2 × 3 factorial design experiment. We compared two scaffolding conditions: (1) the inter-level scaffolding condition in which participants received inter-level questions and experienced the dynamic link function in the simulation-based environment and (2) the intra-level scaffolding condition in which participants received intra-level questions and did not experience the dynamic link function. We also compared three different sequences of representational activities: macro-symbolic-micro, micro-symbolic-macro and symbolic-micro-macro. For the scaffolding variable, we found that the inter-level scaffolding condition produced significantly better performance in both knowledge comprehension and application, compared to the intra-level scaffolding condition. For the sequence variable, we found that the macro-symbolic-micro sequence produced significantly better knowledge comprehension performance than the other two sequences; however, it did not benefit knowledge application performance. There was a trend that the treatment group who experienced inter-level scaffolding and the micro-symbolic-macro sequence achieved the best knowledge application performance. 相似文献
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This study draws on recent research on the central role of representation in learning. While there has been considerable research
on students’ understanding of evaporation, the representational issues entailed in this understanding have not been investigated
in depth. The study explored students’ engagement with evaporation phenomena through various representational modes. The study
indicates how a focus on representation can provide fresh insights into the conceptual task involved in learning science through
an investigation of students’ responses to a structured classroom sequence and subsequent interviews over a year. A case study
of one child’s learning demonstrates the way conceptual advances are integrally connected with the development of representational
modes. The findings suggest that teacher-mediated negotiation of representational issues as students construct different modal
accounts can support enriched learning by enabling both (a) richer conceptual understanding by students, and (b) enhanced
teacher insights into students’ thinking. 相似文献
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József Fiser 《Learning & behavior》2009,37(2):141-153
Traditionally, perceptual learning in humans and classical conditioning in animals have been considered as two very different
research areas, with separate problems, paradigms, and explanations. However, a number of themes common to these fields of
research emerge when they are approached from the more general concept of representational learning. To demonstrate this,
I present results of several learning experiments with human adults and infants, exploring how internal representations of
complex unknown visual patterns might emerge in the brain. I provide evidence that this learning cannot be captured fully
by any simple pairwise associative learning scheme, but rather by a probabilistic inference process called Bayesian model averaging, in which the brain is assumed to formulate the most likely chunking/grouping of its previous experience into independent
representational units. Such a generative model attempts to represent the entire world of stimuli with optimal ability to
generalize to likely scenes in the future. I review the evidence showing that a similar philosophy and generative scheme of
representation has successfully described a wide range of experimental data in the domain of classical conditioning in animals.
These convergent findings suggest that statistical theories of representational learning might help to link human perceptual
learning and animal classical conditioning results into a coherent framework. 相似文献
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A large body of research in the conceptual change tradition has shown the difficulty of learning fundamental science concepts,
yet conceptual change schemes have failed to convincingly demonstrate improvements in supporting significant student learning.
Recent work in cognitive science has challenged this purely conceptual view of learning, emphasising the role of language,
and the importance of personal and contextual aspects of understanding science. The research described in this paper is designed
around the notion that learning involves the recognition and development of students’ representational resources. In particular,
we argue that conceptual difficulties with the concept of force are fundamentally representational in nature. This paper describes
a classroom sequence in force that focuses on representations and their negotiation, and reports on the effectiveness of this
perspective in guiding teaching, and in providing insight into student learning. Classroom sequences involving three teachers
were videotaped using a combined focus on the teacher and groups of students. Video analysis software was used to capture
the variety of representations used, and sequences of representational negotiation. Stimulated recall interviews were conducted
with teachers and students. The paper reports on the nature of the pedagogies developed as part of this representational focus,
its effectiveness in supporting student learning, and on the pedagogical and epistemological challenges negotiated by teachers
in implementing this approach. 相似文献
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Pasi Nieminen Antti Savinainen Jouni Viiri 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2013,11(5):1137-1156
This quantitative case study used a pre- and posttest design for exploring the gender differences in secondary school students’ (n?=?131, 45 males and 86 females) learning of the force concept when an interactive engagement type of teaching was used. In addition, students’ ability to interpret multiple representations (i.e., representational consistency) was documented by a pre- and posttest and scientific reasoning ability by a pretest only. Males significantly outperformed females in learning of the force concept, pre- and posttest representational consistency, and pretest scientific reasoning. However, the gender difference in learning of the force concept was not significant when ANCOVA was conducted using pretest results of representational consistency and scientific reasoning as covariates. This appeared to indicate that the gender difference in learning gain was related to students’ abilities before the instruction. Thus, the teaching method used was equally effective for both genders. Further, our quantitative finding about the relation between representational consistency and learning of the force concept supports the assumption that multiple representations are important in science learning. 相似文献
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Gregor Damnik Antje Proske Susanne Narciss Hermann Körndle 《The Journal of educational research》2013,106(6):431-440
ABSTRACT Especially in the context of technology-enhanced informal learning, it is crucial to understand how to design information sources in such a way that learners are not overwhelmed by the demands of the learning process, but at the same time are engaged in higher order thinking processes. Guidance aids learners in dealing with the demands of a learning process. The authors examined the effects of different levels of guidance provided by an information source. To this end, the effects of a preconstructed externalization are compared to a self-constructed externalization. Thirty-eight students participated in the study. The results revealed no significant differences between the groups with respect to posttest retention. However, performance in application tasks was promoted by the condition associated with a lower level of guidance. This suggests that having learners self-construct an externalization might be a suitable means to elicit learners’ higher order thinking processes in technology-enhanced informal learning. 相似文献
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Janet Mannheimer Zydney Arne Bathke Ted S. Hasselbring 《Interactive Learning Environments》2013,21(5):668-683
This study investigated the effect of different methods of guidance with anchored instruction on students' mathematical problem-solving performance. The purpose of this research was to iteratively design a learning environment to find the optimal level of guidance. Two iterations of the software were compared. The first iteration used explicit instruction upfront followed by practice problems, and the second iteration provided structured problem-solving guidance as needed to solve the problems within the software. Pilot testing was conducted with 32 fifth-grade students from two inclusive classrooms observed a year apart within a small Midwestern, urban school. A parametric analysis of covariance was used to compare the problem-solving performance of the students who used the two different iterations. Enhancing anchored instruction with structured problem-solving guidance on an as-needed basis significantly improved students' problem-solving performance on conceptually easy problems, but not for more complex problems. The implications of this research illustrate the importance of iteratively designing and developing learning environments to take into consideration the needs of a particular situation. 相似文献
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Using multiple representations and argumentation are two fundamental processes in science. With the advancements of information communication technologies, these two processes are blended more so than ever before. However, little is known about how these two processes interact with each other in student learning. Hence, we conducted a design-based study in order to distill the relationship between these two processes. Specifically, we designed a learning unit on nuclear energy and implemented it with a group of preservice middle school teachers. The participants used a web-based knowledge organization platform that incorporated three representational modes: textual, concept map, and pictorial. The participants organized their knowledge on nuclear energy by searching, sorting, clustering information through the use of these representational modes and argued about the nuclear energy issue. We found that the use of multiple representations and argumentation interacted with each other in a complex way. Based on our findings, we argue that the complexity can be unfolded in two aspects: (a) the use of multiple representations mediates argumentation in different forms and for different purposes; (b) the type of argumentation that leads to refinement of the use of multiple representations is often non-mediated and drawn from personal experience. 相似文献
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高校就业指导工作是一个系统工程,必须结合大学四年不同学习内容和学生特点开展职业生涯规划教育,明确不同时期就业指导工作重点,更新观念,加强课程建设,培养高水平的专业化师资队伍以及努力为学生提供就业能力训练平台等措施,将就业指导工作贯穿于高校育人的全过程。 相似文献
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The ontologies of complexity and learning about complex systems 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
This paper discusses a study of students learning core conceptual perspectives from recent scientific research on complexity
using a hypermedia learning environment in which different types of scaffolding were provided. Three comparison groups used
a hypermedia system with agent-based models and scaffolds for problem-based learning activities that varied in terms of the
types of text based scaffolds that were provided related to a set of complex systems concepts. Although significant declarative
knowledge gains were found for the main experimental treatment in which the students received the most scaffolding, there
were no significant differences amongst the three groups in terms of the more cognitively demanding performance on problem
solving tasks. However, it was found across all groups that the students who enriched their ontologies about how complex systems
function performed at a significantly higher level on transfer problem solving tasks in the posttest. It is proposed that
the combination of interactive representational scaffolds associated with NetLogo agent-based models in complex systems cases
and problem solving scaffolding allowed participants to abstract ontological dimensions about how systems of this type function
that, in turn, was associated with the higher performance on the problem solving transfer tasks. Theoretical and design implications
for learning about complex systems are discussed. 相似文献