scholarly journals Do Academically Marginal Students Benefit from Emotional and Blended Learning Support?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. p128
Author(s):  
Pamela M. H. Kwok ◽  
Paula Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Final Examination ◽  
Additional Time ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Bottom Quartile ◽  
High Satisfaction ◽  
Marginal Students ◽  
Design Activities

Engaging all students at the same pace of learning is impossible for educators, and many low academic achievers commonly have low self-perception, low motivation and a lack of self-regulation for academic study. This paper attempts to explore the academic performance problems faced by Generation Z in the bottom quartile studying service marketing and their successful transformation story for their study at a community college in Hong Kong. A series of learning design activities, such as weekly online exercises (self-evaluation), weekly online videos and eTutorials were arranged for the class. This paper examines how students with low academic achievement responded in activities. Data archived in the learning management system on how they participated in activities and academic data performed by these students in mid-term test, quiz grade and final examination were used for analysis. Apart from the outside classroom activities, the teacher carried out individual consultations to address individual needs and provided additional time and effort to motivate students to learn. They subsequently made significant improvements in their final examination and recorded high satisfaction about their performance.

The Impact of Self-Evaluation Instruction on Student Self-Evaluation, Music Performance, and Self-Evaluation Accuracy

2010 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Additional Time ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Strategies ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Evaluation Accuracy

The author sought to determine whether self-evaluation instruction had an impact on student self-evaluation, music performance, and self-evaluation accuracy of music performance among middle school instrumentalists. Participants ( N = 211) were students at a private middle school located in a metropolitan area of a mid-Atlantic state. Students in intact classes, grades 5 through 8, were assigned to one of three treatment groups: self-evaluation instruction (SE-I), self-evaluation only (SE-O), or no self-evaluation (SE-No) for treatment lasting 5 weeks. All groups played through music used in the study at each lesson and heard a model recording of it. Participants in the SE-I group received instruction in self-evaluation while students in the SE-O group self-evaluated their performances daily and the SE-No group received no additional instruction. Results suggest that instruction in self-evaluation had little impact on students’ self-evaluation accuracy or music performance, although grade level did influence music performance. Additional time may be necessary for students to learn to evaluate their own performances effectively; however, it is interesting that students’ music performance did not appear to suffer from time spent in self-evaluation instruction or practice. Music teachers may wish to consider implementing self-evaluation strategies to help students develop the skills necessary for successful self-regulation of music performance.

The Design of Authentic Inquiry for Online Knowledge-Constructive Interaction and Self-Regulated Learning Processes

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Woon Jee Lee ◽  
Fengfeng Ke
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Authentic Inquiry ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Learning Module ◽  
Regulated Learning

This study examined students’ self-regulated learning processes and satisfaction within an authentic, inquiry-based learning module in a graduate-level online course. In this design-based case study, a WebQuest-based, authentic learning module was developed to support self-regulated, collaborative discussions, and implemented with 22 graduate students at a large southeastern university in US. Online discussion transcripts were coded via the Online Learning Interaction Model, and learning satisfaction data were collected via an online survey. As a result, students’ social and knowledge-constructive interactions were closely associated with self-regulated processes. During group and class discussions, students were involved in planning and coordination interactions as well as those for reflection and self-evaluation. Students were generally satisfied with the design elements implemented in the authentic activities. The study findings provide insights on the design of the authentic and inquiry learning that supports both social and individual aspects of self-regulation processes.

Co-Creating Games with Children

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Mouws ◽  
Lizzy Bleumers
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Group Processing ◽  
Group Deliberation ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Game Designer ◽  
Creative Production

In this paper, the authors investigate the role of and relationship between creative production practices (e.g. problem-solving and self-evaluation) and cooperative learning mechanisms (e.g. building trust and group processing) in a case of game co-design. 21 Belgian school children created game concepts together with a game designer, their teacher, and co-design facilitators. During a project week at school, participants moved from idea generation to presenting game concepts through collaboratively created prototypes. This case study, combining observation and survey methods, reveals that self-evaluation and openness to sharing ideas emerged spontaneously, but the critical analysis of digital games and crediting existing work require support. Moreover, as creative choices become part of group deliberation, progress in the creative production process critically depends on group functioning. The authors conclude that by grounding co-design in theory on cooperative learning and media literacy, co-design activities may be better understood and new avenues for supporting co-creators can be identified.

scholarly journals Interactions plurielles d’étudiants en autoformation guidée et autonomisation | Interactions and Autonomization of Students in a Guided Self-Learning Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Cappellini ◽  
Martine Eisenbeis ◽  
Annick Rivens Mompean
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Nous Proposons ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Learning Journal ◽  
Self Learning

Nous interrogeons les formes d’interactions des apprenants dans un parcours d’autoapprentissage guidé en langues. Le dispositif comprend un centre de ressources en langues, des entretiens et un journal de bord réflexif sur leurs activités dont certaines visent des interactions : tandem, réseaux sociaux, etc. À partir de questionnaires et d’extraits de journaux de bord, nous proposons une typologie des interactions qui nous conduit d’une part à interroger les apprentissages formels, non formels ou informels, d’autre part à relier ces interactions aux différentes catégories de l’autonomisation : autodirection, planification et choix des ressources, autorégulation et choix des stratégies, autoévaluation.We analyze the way interactions take place among learners in a self-directed language learning environment. It gathers a language learning centre, individual interviews and a reflexive learning journal describing their activities, which may include interactions such as tandem, social networks, etc. We rely on questionnaires and learning journal extracts that help us build a typology of interactions. This leads us to discuss the notion of formal, informal and non-formal learning and to associate these interactions with several categories for the development of autonomy: self-direction, planning and choosing resources, self-regulation and choice of strategies and self-evaluation.

scholarly journals Students’ Task Understanding during Engineering Problem Solving in an Introductory Thermodynamics Course

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Oenardi Lawanto ◽  
Angela Minichiello ◽  
Jacek Uziak ◽  
Andreas Febrian
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Engineering Problem ◽  
Prior Learning ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Task Interpretation

Understanding problems or tasks is a critical step in any problem-solving activity and the heart of self-regulated learning. When encountering a problem, students draw upon information available in the environment, along with knowledge, concepts, and perceptions derived from prior learning experiences, to interpret the demands of the task. Interpretation of tasks is, therefore, a key determinant of the goals set while learning, strategies selected to achieve those goals, and the criteria used to self-assess and evaluate outcomes. The purpose of this study is to better understand engineering students’ self-regulation in task interpretation processes while engaged in problem solving in an introductory engineering thermodynamics course. Two research questions guided the study: (1) What are the gaps, if any, between the instructor’s and students’ interpretation (explicit and implicit task features) of a problem-solving task?; and (2) How do students’ task interpretation (explicit and implicit) change after engaging in self-evaluation of their problem-solving processes? One hundred twelve (112) second year engineering undergraduates voluntarily participated in the study. Analysis of the data collected revealed a significant difference between the instructor’s and students’ task interpretation of the assigned problems. Furthermore, the analysis showed that students’ had a higher ability to identify the explicit parts of problem tasks than implicit ones. Students were able to grasp 63 to 77 percent and 39 to 49 percent, respectively, of the explicit and implicit information that was presented to them while engaged in problem-solving activities.

scholarly journals The Role of Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring System

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jānis Dāboliņš ◽  
Jānis Grundspeņķis
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Intelligent Tutoring ◽  
Intelligent Tutoring System ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Tutoring System ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Self Evaluation

Abstract Improvement of IT technologies, expansion of internet and popularization of web technologies have enabled technology enhanced learning introduction in adaption of general matters and acquaintance of specialized problems. It is necessary to integrate in ITS (Intelligent Tutoring System) analysis mechanisms and reactions to simulate or overcome natural tutoring environment achievements. In the development of learning systems it is necessary to take into account both individual needs and requirements, as well as the resources of information technologies. Feedback should be aligned, as much as possible, to the learner’s individuality, special needs, self-evaluation, self-explanation, self-regulation, etc.

scholarly journals Effects of a self-regulating writing course on academic text production in a PhD and Master sample

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Lida Johana Rincón ◽  
Christian Hederich-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
The Self ◽  
Metacognitive Awareness ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Writing Course

Objective: This article presents the results of a study with an experimental design; whose objective was to examine the effects of a virtual learning environment focused on the self-regulation of writing on the development of self-regulation and academic writing skills. Background: The course design presented here is based on the idea that writing should be taught as a process, not as a product, which requires training students in the use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies. For this reason, the course set out to increase two skills: 1) the ability to self-regulate academic text writing process and 2) metacognitive awareness. Methodology: In an experimental design, 46 master and doctoral students participated in the 12 – week course, designed to be implemented in an online modality, through the Moodle learning management system. Given the self-regulating nature of this intervention proposal, didactic tools were created enabling the subject to identify and learn about their own processes and the resources they usually employ to develop writing tasks. To that end, the course has two specific strategies: a self-regulating writing scaffolding (SWS) and different tools to increase metacognitive awareness (IMA). The effects of these strategies were observed separately and combined. Results: A first aspect to consider with respect to the effects of the SWS on factors associated with self-regulation is the increase in motivation at the end of the intervention, this, by incorporating strategies such as the explicit formulation of goals, self-evaluation and the explanation of the usefulness and functionality of the task. Regarding achievements reached in improving writing, the SWS also proves to be the most effective for this purpose. Modelling specific behaviours such as choosing specific objectives for the writing task, the formulation of a defined and explicit plan, monitoring behaviours, self-evaluation and self-reinforcement are determinants to reach higher levels of writing.

scholarly journals Socio-psychological aspect of modern junior schoolchildren’s academic giftedness

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (121) ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
Mergalyas M. Kashapov ◽  
◽  
Irina V. Serafimovich ◽  
Yuliya G. Baranova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Group Method ◽  
Gifted Learners ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Regular Work ◽  
Development Orientation

The results of several empirical research generalizations are represented in this article. The congruence of teachers’ and parents’ thinking about different kinds of giftedness and its manifestations of primary school academically gifted learners is discussed here. The specific features analysis of personal characteristics of academically and intellectual gifted today’s children is performed. Sample: total 586 persons: teachers – 60, 240 primary school learners, 286 – learners’ parents. The following idea is proved: a child’s self-evaluation depends on parents’ opinion about their child and it conforms to parents’ expectations. It’s determined that the higher parents evaluate self-regulation level, the level of independence, the higher child’s indicators of self-control and motivation for success are. We have made conclusions that primary schoolchildren can try to draw attention to themselves in order to get acceptance and approval by grown-ups and peers, they also have excessive anxiety level connected with school fears: control and the assessment of knowledge. Authorial express diagnostics was used to study teachers’ and parents’ ideas about different kinds of child’s giftedness and its manifestation. It turned out that at the beginning of studies primary school teachers are less aware of potential giftedness of their children: behavioral and artistic. The spectrum of views about grown-ups’ giftedness broadens to the end of primary school, especially it concerns motivational criteria. The focus group method to estimate the formation level of teachers’ thinking components when working with gifted learners was used. It is found that not only at primary school but also at secondary and high school we can see insufficient representation and formation of teachers knowledge about their work with gifted learners and it is the perspective for further work. It is shown that regular work with teachers stimulates the transformation of professional thinking characteristics from situational up to supra-situational: prediction, reflexivity, the depth and broadness of analysis, self-development orientation are changed.

Metamemory and Cognitive Aging

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hertzog ◽  
Taylor Curley
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cognitive Aging ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Adaptive Strategy ◽  
Memory Errors ◽  
Metacognitive Control ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Memory Monitoring

Metamemory is defined as cognitions about memory and related processes. Related terms in the literature include metacognition, self-evaluation, memory self-efficacy, executive function, self-regulation, cognitive control, and strategic behavior. Metamemory is a multidimensional construct that includes knowledge about how memory works, beliefs about memory (including beliefs about one’s own memory such as memory self-efficacy), monitoring of memory and related processes and products, and metacognitive control, in which adaptive changes in processing approaches and strategies may be contemplated if monitoring of memory processes (encoding, retention, retrieval) indicates that alternative strategies may be required. Older adults generally believe that their memory has declined and that, on average, they have less control over memory and lower memory self-efficacy than young and middle-aged adults. Many but not all aspects of online memory monitoring are well preserved in old age, such as the ability to discriminate between information that has been learned versus not learned. A major exception concerns confidence judgments concerning whether recognition memory decisions are correct; older adults are more prone to high-confidence memory errors, believing they are recognizing something they have not encountered previously. The evidence regarding metacognitive control is more mixed, with some hints that older adults do not use monitoring to adjust control behaviors (e.g., devoting more time and effort to studying items they believe have not yet been well-learned). However, any age deficits in self-regulation based on memory monitoring or adaptive strategy use can probably be addressed through instructions, practice, or training. In general, older adults seem capable of exerting metacognitive control in memory studies, although they may not necessarily do so without explicit support or prompting.

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