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Direct linkBruhwiler, Christian; Blatchford, Peter – Learning and Instruction, 2011
In many studies of class size effects, teacher characteristics are missing, even though many argue it is not class size that is important but teacher quality. In the present study teachers' effectiveness on the learning progress was assessed while teaching a unit with predefined learning objectives. To measure adaptive teaching competency a…
Descriptors: Class Size, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Competencies
Hilte, Maartje; Reitsma, Pieter – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Second graders (N=222; 7.7 years of age) practiced with open- and closed-syllable words in a computer-assisted training program and appropriate spelling rules were either explicitly provided during practice or not. Also, children practiced either with a small set of exemplars or with a large set; the latter condition was expected to promote the…
Descriptors: Spelling, Syllables, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
van de Pol, Janneke; Volman, Monique; Beishuizen, Jos – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The present study aimed at investigating the process of scaffolding in a naturalistic setting with focus on a key aspect of scaffolding, namely contingency. Three Social Studies teachers in innovative prevocational schools were observed and interviewed. A coding scheme for the measurement of scaffolding was developed which revealed different…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Social Studies, Prevocational Education, Teacher Student Relationship
Mason, Lucia; Ariasi, Nicola; Boldrin, Angela – Learning and Instruction, 2011
In the present study it was investigated whether high school students are spontaneously able to reflect epistemologically during online searching for information about a controversial topic. In addition, we examined whether activating epistemic beliefs is related to individual characteristics, such as prior knowledge of the topic and argumentative…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reflection, Epistemology, Beliefs
Rotgans, Jerome I.; Schmidt, Henk G. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The aim of the present study was to investigate how situational interest develops over time and how it is related to academic achievement in an active-learning classroom. Five measures of situational interest were administered at critical points in time to 69 polytechnic students during a one-day, problem-based learning session. Results revealed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Active Learning, Problem Based Learning, College Students
de Graaff, Saskia; Hasselman, Fred; Verhoeven, Ludo; Bosman, Anna M. T. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The aim of the present study was to provide more insight in the relative difficulty of four tasks testing phonemic awareness: (a) blending, (b) isolation, (c) segmentation, and (d) deletion. At the same time the roles of phoneme position and phoneme class were taken into account in a fully balanced way. To this purpose, 141 kindergartners were…
Descriptors: Phonology, Phonemic Awareness, Indo European Languages, Kindergarten
Lowrie, Tom; Diezmann, Carmel M. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The capacity to solve tasks that contain high concentrations of visual-spatial information, including graphs, maps and diagrams, is becoming increasingly important in educational contexts as well as everyday life. This research examined gender differences in the performance of students solving graphics tasks from the Graphical Languages in…
Descriptors: Maps, Graphs, Spatial Ability, Gender Differences
Ortner, Tuulia M.; Vormittag, Isabella – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Effects of test administrator's gender on test takers' self-estimated verbal general knowledge and de facto verbal general knowledge were investigated. Based on three theories previously applied in research dealing with the effects of test administrator's ethnicity, it was expected male and female test takers to show higher scores under female…
Descriptors: Examiners, Gender Differences, Testing, Self Concept
Helsdingen, Anne S.; van Gog, Tamara; van Merrienboer, Jeroen J. G. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The effects of practice schedule on learning a complex judgment task were investigated. In Experiment 1, participants' judgment accuracy on a retention test was higher after a random practice schedule than after a blocked schedule or operational schedule. Experiment 2 demonstrated that judgment on a transfer test was also better after a random…
Descriptors: Scheduling, Drills (Practice), Retention (Psychology), Learning
Schweizer, Karl; Steinwascher, Merle; Moosbrugger, Helfried; Reiss, Siegbert – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The development of research methodology competency is a major aim of the psychology curriculum at universities. Usually, three courses concentrating on basic statistics, advanced statistics and experimental methods, respectively, serve the achievement of this aim. However, this traditional curriculum-based course structure gives rise to the…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Courses, Competence, Psychology
Ifenthaler, Dirk; Seel, Norbert M. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Cognitive scientists have studied internal cognitive structures, processes, and systems for decades in order to understand how they function in human learning. Nevertheless, questions concerning the diagnosis of changes in these cognitive structures while solving inductive reasoning tasks are still being scrutinized. This paper reports findings…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Cognitive Structures, Logical Thinking, Probability
Kirschner, Femke; Paas, Fred; Kirschner, Paul A.; Janssen, Jeroen – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The effectiveness and efficiency of individual versus collaborative learning was investigated as a function of instructional format among 140 high school students in the domain of biology. The instructional format either emphasized worked examples, which needed to be studied or the equivalent problems, which needed to be solved. Because problem…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning, High School Students, Biology
Tsivitanidou, Olia E.; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Hovardas, Tasos – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate secondary school students' unmediated peer assessment skills. Specifically, 36 seventh graders, without receiving any kind of support, were anonymously assigned to reciprocally assess their peers' science web-portfolios. Additionally, students' attitudes towards and intentions about the use of…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Grade 7
Andreassen, Rune; Braten, Ivar – Learning and Instruction, 2011
In this intervention study, teachers tried to implement four instructional principles derived from the literature on research-based, explicit reading comprehension instruction in their fifth-grade classrooms. The principles focused on relevant background knowledge, reading comprehension strategies, reading-group organization, and reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Motivation, Classrooms
Schoor, Cornelia; Bannert, Maria – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Addressing a drawback in current research on computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), this study investigated the influence of motivation on learning activities and knowledge acquisition during CSCL. Participants' (N = 200 university students) task was to develop a handout for which they had first an individual preparing phase followed by…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Student Motivation, Cooperative Learning
