Adaptive Human Scaffolding Facilitates Adolescents’ Self-regulated Learning with Hypermedia |
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| Authors: | Roger Azevedo Jennifer G Cromley Fielding I Winters Daniel C Moos Jeffrey A Greene |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, 3304E, College Park, MD 20742, USA |
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| Abstract: | This study examines the effectiveness of three scaffolding conditions on adolescents’ learning about the circulatory system
with a hypermedia learning environment. One hundred and eleven adolescents (n = 111) were randomly assigned to one of three scaffolding conditions (adaptive scaffolding (AS), fixed scaffolding (FS),
or no scaffolding (NS)) and were trained to use a hypermedia environment to learn about the circulatory system. Pretest and
posttest data were collected to measure the qualitative changes in students’ mental models of the topic and quantitative changes
in their declarative knowledge. Verbal protocols were collected during the 40-minute learning task to examine how each condition
affected the way in which students regulated their learning. Findings revealed that learners in both the AS and NS conditions
gained significantly more declarative knowledge than did those in the FS condition. Also, the AS condition was associated
with shift in learners’ mental models significantly more than the other conditions. Associated with these significant shifts
in their mental models, learners in the AS condition regulated their learning by planning and activating prior knowledge,
monitoring their cognitive activities and their progress toward learning goals, using several effective strategies, and engaging
in adaptive help-seeking. By contrast, those in the NS condition used fewer effective strategies, while those in the FS regulated
their learning by using several regulatory processes which seemed to impede their learning. Implications for the design of
scaffolds for fostering students’ self-regulated learning with hypermedia are presented. |
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| Keywords: | hypermedia self-regulated learning scaffolding science adolescents |
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