Improving Undergraduates’ Experience of Online Learning and Involvement

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-Di Shen ◽  
Chia-Wen Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Web

As educators and teachers pay more attention to the applications of educational technologies and websites to help students achieve satisfactory learning outcomes, it is necessary to develop effective teaching methods integrated with technologies for both teachers and students. This study involved 96 undergraduates from two class sections in an experiment wherein the first class received the interventions of web-mediated Self-regulated Learning (SRL) and Collaborative Learning (CL) (Case 1), while the second one served as the control group (Case 2). The results of this study show that Case 1 students had a better experience of course learning and more positive attitudes toward the interventions of web-mediated SRL and CL than those in Case 2. In addition, Case 1 students’ involvement in learning in the web-mediated learning environments (5.0002) was also higher than those in Case 2 (4.7813), though insignificantly. Implications for teachers and schools are also provided in this paper.

scholarly journals Self-Regulated Learning Strategy Based on Problem Solving to Improve The Learners’ Learning Outcomes

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Santi Eka Ambaryani ◽  
◽  
Winarti Winarti ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Hypothesis Test ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Science Program ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
Mathematics And Science

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

scholarly journals Introducing Databases in Context Through Customizable Visualizations

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne W. Dietrich ◽  
Don Goelman ◽  
Jennifer Broatch ◽  
Sharon Crook ◽  
Becky Ball ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Relational Databases ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Assessment Questions

The goal of the Databases for Many Majors project is to engage a broad audience in understanding fundamental database concepts using visualizations with color and visual cues to present these topics to students across many disciplines. There are three visualizations: introducing relational databases, querying, and design. A unique feature of these learning tools is the ability for instructors in diverse disciplines to customize the content of the visualization’s example data, supporting text, and formative assessment questions to promote relevance to their students. This paper presents a study on the impact of the customized introduction to relational databases visualization on both conceptual learning and attitudes towards databases. The assessment was performed in three different courses across two universities. The evaluation shows that learning outcomes are met with any visualization, which appears to be counter to expectations. However, students using a visualization customized to the course context had more positive attitudes and beliefs towards the usefulness of databases than the control group.

Learning Through Sharing and Regulation

2012 ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
Chia-Wen Tsai ◽  
Yi-Fen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
Blended Course ◽  
Experimental Group

Many studies investigate the effects of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and also explore how learning processes and social interaction contribute to learning outcomes in online learning environments. This study provides an appropriate design of web-supported collaborative learning (CL) with teacher’s initiation and self-regulated learning (SRL), and demonstrates the effects of this design on improving students’ involvement and helping students attain course goals in a blended course. The authors conducted an experiment with an intervention of web-supported CL with initiation and SRL in a course titled ‘Applied Information Technology: Networking’ that included 112 sophomores from two classes at an academic university in Taiwan. The class of web-supported CL with initiation and SRL was the experimental group, and online CL without initiation or SRL served the control group. The results illustrate that web-supported CL with initiation and SRL could significantly improve students’ involvement in this course. In addition, interviewed students also expressed their positive appreciation for web-supported CL with initiation and SRL. The authors expect the innovative learning activities and teaching method in this study could provide insights for online teachers.

Improving Students’ Computing Skills and Attitudes toward Learning via Web-Mediated Self-Regulated Learning with Feedback in an Online Problem-Solving Environment

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-Wen Tsai ◽  
Pei-Di Shen
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Learning Effects ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Attitudes Toward Learning ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Problem Solving Environment ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
Computing Skills

Online learning is generally a solitary process without teachers’ on-the-spot assistance. To help students achieve sustained learning effects, the authors conducted a quasi-experiment to explore the effects of web-mediated self-regulated learning (SRL) with feedback on enhancing students’ computing skills, and their attitudes toward blended learning through online problem-solving. In this study, two cases were studied and compared, one a class deploying web-mediated SRL with feedback and the other without. The results showed that students who received web-mediated SRL with feedback outperformed those without feedback on computing skills and exhibited positive attitudes toward this instruction integrated with innovative teaching methods and technologies.

Use of Meta-Analysis to Uncover the Critical Issues of Mobile Inquiry-Based Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-746
Author(s):  
Je-Ming Yang ◽  
Yao-Ting Sung ◽  
Kuo-En Chang
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
Critical Issues

Using mobile devices to support the process and products of learning activities is a trend in inquiry-based learning, which is culminating in the formation of the subfield of mobile inquiry-based learning (m-IBL). However, even though mobile devices have been widely used in IBL activities in recent years, evaluative evidence for their substantial contributions to IBL is still deficient. Therefore, this study collected and analyzed 40 peer-reviewed journal articles published during 2001 to 2017 involving 3,542 participants and further discovered that m-IBL has produced meaningful improvements for IBL with an overall mean effect size of 0.803, with a 95% confidence interval [0.61, 0.99]. In addition, moderator variables such as control group types, learning outcomes, inquiry types, teaching methods, and domain subjects were related to different effect sizes. Finally, the results of the meta-analysis were discussed along with their implications for future research and practice.

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
Keyword(s):  
Test Performance ◽  
Dynamic Testing ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Thinking Aloud ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
Integrative Assessment ◽  
And Performance

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.

scholarly journals WEB-BASED COOPERATIVE LEARNING, LEARNING STYLES, AND STUDENT’S LEARNING OUTCOMES

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bambang Hariadi
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Learning Achievement ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Web

Abstract: This study was aimed to examine the effect of the instructional learning strategy (webbased STAD-type cooperative and text-based STAD-type cooperative learning strategies) and learning styles towards student learning achievement. This quasi-experimental study used a non-equivalent control group version of the factorial design. The subjects were the first-semester undergraduate students of Information Systems at STIKOM Surabaya. Sixty-nine (69) students were involved, 34 of whom were the subjects of the experimental group and 35 were the subjects of the control group. The collected data were statistically analyzed by using the two-way analysis of variance technique (ANOVA) with the significance level of 0.05. The findings of this research indicate that there was a significant difference in learning achievement, for the General Management course, between groups of students taught with the web-based STAD-type cooperative learning strategies and those taught with the text-based STAD-type cooperative learning strategies. Based on the findings, the researcher suggests lecturers to implement the STAD-type cooperative learning strategies, and use the web-based and text-based strategies simultaneously (complementarily) in the form of blended learning. Keywords: learning strategy, STAD type cooperative, web based learning, learning styles, learning outcomes PEMBELAJARAN KOOPERATIF BERBASIS WEB, GAYA BELAJAR, DAN HASIL BELAJAR MAHASISWA Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh strategi pembelajaran (kooperatif tipe STAD berbasis web vs kooperatif tipe STAD berbasis teks) dan gaya belajar terhadap hasil belajar mahasiswa. Penelitian kuasi eksperimen ini menggunakan desain faktorial versi nonequivalen control group design. Subjek penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa program studi Sistem Informasi semester I di STIKOM Surabaya yang berjumlah 69 mahasiswa, terdiri dari 34 mahasiswa untuk kelas eksperimen dan 35 mahasiswa untuk kelas kontrol. Data yang terkumpul diolah secara statistik dengan menggunakan teknik analisis varian dua jalur dengan menggunakan taraf signifikansi 0,05. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan hasil belajar mata kuliah Manajemen Umum yang signifikan antara kelompok mahasiswa yang dibelajarkan dengan strategi kooperatif tipe STAD berbasis web dan strategi kooperatif tipe STAD berbasis teks. Berdasarkan temuan penelitian ini disarankan untuk menerapkan strategi pembelajaran kooperatif tipe STAD dan menggunakannya secara bersamaan (saling melengkapi) antara yang berbasis web dengan yang berbasis teks dalam bentuk blended learning. Kata Kunci: strategi pembelajaran, kooperatif tipe STAD, web base learning, gaya belajar, hasil belajar

scholarly journals Do we need special pedagogy in medical schools? – Attitudes of teachers and students in Hungary: a cross-sectional study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Varga ◽  
Zsuzsanna Pótó ◽  
László Czopf ◽  
Zsuzsanna Füzesi
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Pedagogical Skills ◽  
Teachers And Students

Abstract Background The quality of medical education is a key factor. The fact that mostly physicians teach tomorrow’s physicians without acquiring pedagogical skills before becoming a teacher is a cause of concern. In Hungary, where traditional teaching methods are common, and teachers have not had pedagogical courses in medical education there has not been any research dealing with the issue. On the one hand, we aimed with this cross-sectional study to examine the attitudes of teachers towards learning outcomes of medical students to get a view about the opinions about their importance and rate of delivery. On the other hand, we analyzed the pedagogical skills of teachers from the students’ and teachers’ perspective in Hungary. Methods Data collection through self-reported questionnaires in online form in all the four Hungarian higher education institutions offering medical education was carried out among teachers and students with active student legal status in 2017. We validated the questionnaires of the two respondents’ groups. We used gap matrices to represent the correspondences of the delivery and perceived importance of the learning outcomes. We calculated averages of the pedagogical skills and compared them with t-tests. Results The response rates are 11.18% in case of the students (1505) and 24.53% in case of the teachers (439). The results indicate the lack of concordance between the rates of the learning outcomes in terms of their importance and delivery - no positive gap can be observed -, and the need for pedagogical skills among teachers and students. The opinions of students compared to teachers’ are all statistically higher according to the averages. Conclusions The study results underline the necessity of a transition and paradigm shift in medical education from delivering solely professional knowledge towards pedagogically prepared practice and patient oriented teaching methods as well as acquiring pedagogical knowledge as part of the training of medical teachers in Hungary.

Parents Outcomes of Parent-Mediated Intervention for Toddlers With Autism

2021 ◽  
pp. 027112142110191
Author(s):  
Xinyue Liu ◽  
Hannah H. Schertz
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Significant Group ◽  
Parent Child Interactions ◽  
Learning Principles ◽  
And Control ◽  
Parent Child

Parent-mediated intervention can enhance parents’ competence in supporting parent–child social interactions. Research and current policy have highlighted the importance of building family capacity in supporting parents to help children with autism develop social communication abilities. Parents who experienced parent-mediated interventions have reported reduced parenting stress; however, few studies have examined parents’ learning outcomes from such interventions for children with autism. We assessed parents’ learning outcomes from participation in the Joint Attention Mediated Learning (JAML) intervention and explored differences in parents’ application of mediated learning principles between intervention and control groups. We used parent–child interaction videos to analyze parents’ application of mediated learning principles with their toddlers in home settings and found significant group differences in parents’ application of the principles at postintervention. Parents in the intervention group showed significant improvements in their competence in mediating child learning in unstructured parent–child interactions, but there were no significant gains for parents in the control group.

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