Extensions of Cognitive Ability Assessment With Dynamic Testing Using Self-Regulated Learning

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pearly Teo ◽  
John Roodenburg

This study investigated the extension of Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC)–based cognitive assessment with dynamic testing using self-regulated learning (SRL). It was based on extensive review, which called for an integrative assessment of the propensity for learning and cognition of children with learning disabilities (LDs). The objective was to examine whether a brief SRL engagement during dynamic testing could enhance self-regulatory behaviors and performance in 3 CHC areas and reveal differences in SRL processes. There were 50 children at risk for LDs assigned to 2 groups: 1 group participated in dynamic extensions of assessment with SRL (involving thinking aloud and mediated learning experience); the control group undertook the same tasks without SRL. Significant intergroup differences were found in behaviors across three CHC areas and test performance in writing but not in fluid reasoning or memory tasks. Thinking-aloud processes revealed SRL capacities not evident in static assessment. Implications of dynamic extensions of tests using SRL were discussed.

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Femke E. Stad ◽  
Karl H. Wiedl ◽  
Wilma C. M. Resing

<p>Dynamic testing aims to explore a child’s potential to learn by assessing improvement after training. In this study we investigated the relationship between performance on a dynamic test of series completion and children’s cognitive flexibility. This was done using a pre-test-trainingpost-test control-group design with 95 children, aged 6-8 years (<em>M</em> = 7;1, <em>SD</em> = 12.5 months). All children were tested with a measurement of cognitive flexibility. Half of the children were trained in series completion according to a graduated prompting model, while the other half only practiced. Based on initial ability and performance change after training, children were classified as non-learner, learner or high performer. The results showed that training improved series completion performance more than practice-only. Cognitive flexibility predicted static pre-test performance and instructional needs during training and might therefore be of importance in the assessment of learning potential.</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan-Marie Harding ◽  
Narelle English ◽  
Nives Nibali ◽  
Patrick Griffin ◽  
Lorraine Graham ◽  
...  

Students who can regulate their own learning are proposed to gain the most out of education, yet research into the impact of self-regulated learning skills on performance shows mixed results. This study supports the link between self-regulated learning and performance, while providing evidence of grade- or age-related differences. Australian students from Grades 5 to 8 completed mathematics or reading comprehension assessments and self-regulated learning questionnaires, with each response ranked on a hierarchy of quality. All assessments were psychometrically analysed and validated. In each cohort and overall, higher performing students reported higher levels of self-regulated learning. Still, age-related differences outweighed performance differences, resulting in significantly lower reported usage of self-regulated learning skills in Grade 7 students compared to those in Grades 5, 6 and 8. These findings suggest that either age or school organisational differences mediate students’ self-regulated learning, counteracting ability-related associations.


Author(s):  
Yizhou Fan ◽  
Wannisa Matcha ◽  
Nora’ayu Ahmad Uzir ◽  
Qiong Wang ◽  
Dragan Gašević

AbstractThe importance of learning design in education is widely acknowledged in the literature. Should learners make effective use of opportunities provided in a learning design, especially in online environments, previous studies have shown that they need to have strong skills for self-regulated learning (SRL). The literature, which reports the use of learning analytics (LA), shows that SRL skills are best exhibited in choices of learning tactics that are reflective of metacognitive control and monitoring. However, in spite of high significance for evaluation of learning experience, the link between learning design and learning tactics has been under-explored. In order to fill this gap, this paper proposes a novel learning analytic method that combines three data analytic techniques, including a cluster analysis, a process mining technique, and an epistemic network analysis. The proposed method was applied to a dataset collected in a massive open online course (MOOC) on teaching in flipped classrooms which was offered on a Chinese MOOC platform to pre- and in-service teachers. The results showed that the application of the approach detected four learning tactics (Search oriented, Content and assessment oriented, Content oriented and Assessment oriented) which were used by MOOC learners. The analysis of tactics’ usage across learning sessions revealed that learners from different performance groups had different priorities. The study also showed that learning tactics shaped by instructional cues were embedded in different units of study in MOOC. The learners from a high-performance group showed a high level of regulation through strong alignment of the choices of learning tactics with tasks provided in the learning design. The paper also provides a discussion about implications of research and practice.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Daniela Wagner ◽  
Sandra Dörrenbächer ◽  
Franziska Perels

The study’s aim was to develop an intervention program and to evaluate its contribution to students’ self-regulated learning (SRL) and text analysis skills. In a student-focused training approach, the students themselves acquired the training strategies, whereas in the teacher-focused training, the teachers were enabled to explicitly impart these strategies to their students. In order to investigate the effectiveness of the intervention in terms of transfer benefits on SRL and text analysis skills, 274 lower secondary students were examined in a pretest-training-posttest design. Based on two different training approaches, a distinction was made between four groups: student training (singleST), teacher training (singleTT), combination of student and teacher training (ComT), and control group (CG). Substantially more transfer was revealed in all training conditions as compared to the control group. Specifically, the singleST group showed the highest learning gains for all variables. Conversely, a combination of both approaches (ComT) did not result in synergetic effects, but rather in reciprocal interferences.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Santi Eka Ambaryani ◽  
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Winarti Winarti ◽  

Self-regulated learning is an effort to manage an individual’s learning. This research aims to 1) determine the strategy of self-regulated learning (SRL) based on problem-solving toward the learners’ learning outcomes and 2) determine the learning outcome improvement of the learners in learning by using the SRL based-problem solving. This research is quantitative research with quasi-experimental type and pretest-posttest control group design. The sampling technique was purposive sampling. The research population covered all in Senior High School (SMA 5) Yogyakarta. The samples were from the tenth graders of Mathematics and Science Program 3 as the control group and Mathematics and Science Program 1 as the experimental group. The data collection methods consisted of test and non-test. The analysis result were, the hypothesis test showed that the applied strategy influenced the learners’ learning outcomes and the learners’ learning outcomes had improvements with the N-gain average score of 0.590, categorized moderate. Keywords: Problem-Solving, Self-Regulated Learning Strategy, Simple Harmonic Motion


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 268
Author(s):  
Desy Tri Damayanti ◽  
Utari Sumarmo ◽  
Rippi Maya

This study was a pre test-post test experiment without control group design having a goal to examine the role of Prior Mathematics Ability (PMA), Sylver  approach (SA) toward student’s mathematical creative thinking ability (MCTA) and Self Regulated Learning (SRL).  The study involved  65 eleven  grade student, a PMA test, a MCTA test, and SRL scale. The study found that PMA and SA took good role on obtaining student’s MCTA, its N<Gain> and SRL. On student’s MCTA, and its N<Gain> students getting treatment with SA attained better grades than that of students taught by conventional teaching, and the  grades were still at medium level.  On SRL,  there was no different grades between students on both teaching approaches, and those grades were at fairly good  level.  The other findings, there was no association between MCTA and SRL, and students performed high perception toward SA.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dedi Muhtadi ◽  
Sukirwan Sukirwan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan pencapaian dan peningkatan kemampuan berpikir kreatif matematik (KBKM) dan kemandirian belajar peserta didik melalui implementasi Pendekatan Matematika Realistik (PMR). Populasi penelitian ini adalah peserta didik SMP Negeri di Kota Tasikmalaya. Sampel penelitian adalah peserta didik kelas VIII yang mewakili satu sekolah level tinggi dan satu sekolah level sedang. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuasi eksperimen dengan desain kelompok kontrol pretes-postes. Instrumen yang digunakan yaitu tes KBKM, skala kemandirian belajar peserta didik, dan lembar observasi. Analisis data menggunakan uji Kruskal Wallis. Dari hasil penelitian disimpulkan: 1) Pencapaian dan peningkatan KBKM kelompok PMR lebih baik dari kelompok PK; dan 2) Pencapaian dan peningkatan kemandirian belajar kelompok PMR lebih baik dari kelompok PK.The purposes of this study are to describe the enhancement and the achievement of students’ Mathematical Creative Thinking Skills (MCTS) and Self Regulated Learning (SRL) through implementation of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) and Conventional Learning (CL). The population of this study were Junior High School students in Tasikmalaya City. The sample of this study were eighth grade students representing the high school level and the medium school level. This research is a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest control group. The instrument used is a test MCTS, scale independence of learners, and the observation sheet. Analysis of data using Kruskal Wallis test. The final conclusion: 1) Achievement and improvement of MCTS RME group is better than CL group; and 2) Achievement and improvement of Self Regulated Learning (SRL) RME group is better than CL group.


Author(s):  
Elena Cano García ◽  
Laura Pons-Seguí

This study explores how peer-feedback promotes self-regulated learning (SRL) processes in initial teacher education. Self-regulation capacity is analyzed through Pintrich's MSLQ questionnaire. A total of 50 students have participated in this experience during the year 2015-2016. Tasks that enhanced self-regulation and learning to learn competence were developed in this course. In order to analyze the effect of these tasks on SRL, pre- and post-tests were administered to the experimental (n=50) and a control group (n=45). The results revealed an improvement in self-regulation capacity, especially in those items relative to help seeking, task value and self-efficacy.


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