Effects of reading and spelling predictors before and after school entry: Evidence from a German longitudinal study
This study shows that the onset of schooling influences the predictability of early literacy predictors and indicates that with the onset of formal literacy education, predictors representing automaticity in serial processing increase in significance for reading abilities. (Source: Learning and Instruction)
Source: Learning and Instruction - October 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Emotions in medical education: Examining the validity of the Medical Emotion Scale (MES) across authentic medical learning environments
Publication date: Available online 26 September 2018Source: Learning and InstructionAuthor(s): Melissa C. Duffy, Susanne P. Lajoie, Reinhard Pekrun, Kevin LachapelleAbstractTo advance emotion research in education, there is a need to develop practical and context-relevant measures of emotion and to test the applicability of emotion theories using these measures. In two studies, we examined validity evidence of a self-report scale (the Medical Emotion Scale, MES) designed to measure the unique range of emotions activated within medical education. In Study 1, we administered the MES and conducted interviews with medical trai...
Source: Learning and Instruction - October 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Kindergarten children's symbolic number comparison skills predict 1st grade mathematics achievement: Evidence from a two-minute paper-and-pencil test
Publication date: February 2019Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 59Author(s): Zachary Hawes, Nadia Nosworthy, Lisa Archibald, Daniel AnsariAbstractBasic numerical skills provide an important foundation for the learning of mathematics. Thus, it is critical that researchers and educators have access to valid and reliable ways of assessing young children's numerical skills. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the concurrent, predictive, and incremental validity of a two-minute paper-and-pencil measure of children's symbolic (Arabic numerals) and non-symbolic (dot arrays) comparison skills. A sample of kindergarte...
Source: Learning and Instruction - October 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Improved application of the control-of-variables strategy as a collateral benefit of inquiry-based physics education in elementary school
Publication date: February 2019Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 59Author(s): Lennart Schalk, Peter A. Edelsbrunner, Anne Deiglmayr, Ralph Schumacher, Elsbeth SternAbstractIn a quasi-experimental classroom study, we longitudinally investigated whether inquiry-based, content-focused physics instruction improves students’ ability to apply the control-of-variables strategy, a domain-general experimentation skill. Twelve third grade elementary school classes (Mdnage = 9 years, N = 189) were randomly assigned to receive either four different physics curriculum units (intervention) or traditional instruction (co...
Source: Learning and Instruction - October 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Fostering positive emotions and history knowledge with location-based augmented reality and tour-guide prompts
Publication date: Available online 21 September 2018Source: Learning and InstructionAuthor(s): Jason M. Harley, Susanne P. Lajoie, Tara Tressel, Amanda JarrellAbstractThere is a lack of theory-driven empirical research that evaluates outcomes of location-based augmented reality (AR) applications with the purpose of improving instructional design and use guidelines. The primary aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two historical reasoning guide protocols, one based on prior research by Harley and colleagues (2016a; the other an extension) while learners used a mobile AR app to learn about history. Learners ...
Source: Learning and Instruction - September 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Children's interpretations of covariation data: Explanations reveal understanding of relevant comparisons
Publication date: February 2019Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 59Author(s): Andrea Saffran, Petra Barchfeld, Martha W. Alibali, Kristina Reiss, Beate SodianAbstractThis research investigates children's understanding of the significance of comparisons between data categories for judgments of covariation. Past studies showed that children sometimes neglect some of the relevant data categories. This may occur because children fail to understand the relevance of the comparisons between data categories. To investigate this interpretation, 51 second graders and 43 fourth graders were tested in a between-subject design...
Source: Learning and Instruction - September 20, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Learning and Instruction - September 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Learning and Instruction - September 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: December 2018Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 58Author(s): (Source: Learning and Instruction)
Source: Learning and Instruction - September 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Early identification and intervention for children with initial signs of reading deficits - A blinded randomized controlled trial
This study provides the basis for developing school-based early identification and intervention programmes to remediate reading deficits and prevent RD. (Source: Learning and Instruction)
Source: Learning and Instruction - September 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Mediation with a puppet: The effects on teachers' mediated learning strategies with children in special education and regular kindergartens
Publication date: December 2018Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 58Author(s): David Tzuriel, Ronit RemerAbstractThe main objectives of this study were to investigate the effects of mediation with a puppet on teachers' mediated learning experience (MLE) strategies. The sample was composed of 18 teachers and 145 kindergarten children, selected from special education (n = 68) and regular (n = 77) kindergartens. About half of each group was assigned to a puppet and half to a no-puppet group. Each teacher was assigned to a small group of 3–5 children and asked to teach them a story for 15 min in a puppet and ...
Source: Learning and Instruction - September 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
It is not only about the depth of processing: What if eye am not interested in the text?
This study aims at extending current research on how the interaction between cognitive processing and topic interest shapes the online learning process of students when learning from expository texts. We used eye tracking to monitor the reading and learning behaviour of 31 students in higher education. In addition, we used self-report questionnaires to map students' general disposition towards deep and surface processing and their topic interest. Cued retrospective think-alouds were conducted to capture students' levels of processing during learning from text. We examined the interaction between levels of processing and to...
Source: Learning and Instruction - August 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effectiveness of eye movement modeling examples in problem solving: The role of verbal ambiguity and prior knowledge
Publication date: December 2018Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 58Author(s): Tim van Marlen, Margot van Wermeskerken, Halszka Jarodzka, Tamara van GogAbstractEye movement modeling examples (EMME) are video modeling examples with the model's eye movements superimposed. Thus far, EMME on problem-solving tasks seem to be effective for guiding students' attention, but this does not translate into higher learning outcomes. We therefore investigated the role of ambiguity of the verbal explanation and prior knowledge in the effectiveness of EMME on geometry problems. In Experiment 1, 57 university students observed EMME o...
Source: Learning and Instruction - August 15, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
New insights into the process of peer review for EFL writing: A process-oriented socio-cultural perspective
Publication date: December 2018Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 58Author(s): Huahui ZhaoAbstractThe process of peer review for EFL writing has remained underexplored despite the increasing volume of research on peer review. The current study justified, adopted and substantiated a process-oriented approach to exploring peer review through the lens of the socio-cultural theory, after critiquing the predominant product-oriented research paradigm.Thirteen pairs of Chinese university EFL learners conducted peer review of six writing genres after receiving training in peer review. Peer interaction was scrutinised in term...
Source: Learning and Instruction - August 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Learning and Instruction - August 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
