Complex fraction comparisons and the natural number bias: The role of benchmarks
Publication date: June 2020Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 67Author(s): Andreas Obersteiner, Martha Wagner Alibali, Vijay Marupudi (Source: Learning and Instruction)
Source: Learning and Instruction - March 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Practices more likely to occur in kindergarten mathematics teachers’ instruction when English learners are present
Publication date: June 2020Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 67Author(s): Sarah A. Roberts, J. Jacob Kirksey, Michael Gottfried (Source: Learning and Instruction)
Source: Learning and Instruction - March 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The relationship between inquiry-based teaching and students’ achievement. New evidence from a longitudinal PISA study in England
Publication date: Available online 18 March 2020Source: Learning and InstructionAuthor(s): John Jerrim, Mary Oliver, Sam Sims (Source: Learning and Instruction)
Source: Learning and Instruction - March 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Publication date: April 2020Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 66Author(s): (Source: Learning and Instruction)
Source: Learning and Instruction - March 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Publication date: April 2020Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 66Author(s): (Source: Learning and Instruction)
Source: Learning and Instruction - March 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Publication date: April 2020Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 66Author(s): (Source: Learning and Instruction)
Source: Learning and Instruction - March 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Fourth graders’ adaptive strategy use in solving multidigit subtraction problems
Publication date: June 2020Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 67Author(s): Marian Hickendorff (Source: Learning and Instruction)
Source: Learning and Instruction - March 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A longitudinal investigation of syntactic awareness and reading comprehension in Chinese-English bilingual children
Publication date: June 2020Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 67Author(s): Tik-Sze Carrey Siu, Suk-Han Connie Ho (Source: Learning and Instruction)
Source: Learning and Instruction - March 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Young children working together. Cooperative learning effects on group work of children in Grade 1 of primary education
Publication date: June 2020Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 67Author(s): M.A. Veldman, S. Doolaard, R.J. Bosker, T.A.B. Snijders (Source: Learning and Instruction)
Source: Learning and Instruction - February 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Effectiveness of private tutoring during secondary schooling in Germany: Do the duration of private tutoring and tutor qualification affect school achievement?
In this study, we conducted secondary analyses using data of two longitudinal studies (approx. 8000 secondary school students) and investigated the effects of private tutoring duration and different levels of tutors' formal qualifications on subject-specific grades and test scores in 4 school subjects. OLS-regression analyses showed neither a systematic positive effect of a longer duration of tutoring nor of higher qualified tutors when prior knowledge, motivational and sociodemographic variables were controlled for. However, we found significant positive interaction effects between tutors' qualifications and students’ p...
Source: Learning and Instruction - February 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Effect of on-screen text on multimedia learning with native and foreign-accented narration
This study examined the impact of redundant on-screen text on learning from an animated PowerPoint presentation, narrated either by a native or a foreign-accented narrator, with no text, summary text, or full text. Participants completed retention and transfer tests and rated the cognitive load induced by the narration and the PowerPoint materials. With a native narrator, participants performed better on transfer with no text than summary text (redundancy effect). The foreign-accented narration was perceived to be more difficult to understand. Transfer performance was worse for accented than native narration with no text, ...
Source: Learning and Instruction - February 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Obtaining secondary students’ perceptions of instructional quality: Two-level structure and measurement invariance
Publication date: April 2020Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 66Author(s): Benedikt Wisniewski, Klaus Zierer, Markus Dresel, Martin DaumillerAbstractStudents' perceptions of instructional quality have become an important information source for teachers' professional development. This requires knowledge of the structure of these perceptions, their validity, and generalizability. To this end, we conducted a study with 15,005 German 512 grade students from 690 classrooms in three different school types and three different grade levels. Assuming three basic dimensions of instructional quality with 7 facets, we investiga...
Source: Learning and Instruction - February 2, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Syllable-based reading improvement: Effects on word reading and reading comprehension in Grade 2
This study examined the effects of a syllable-based reading intervention for German second graders who demonstrated difficulties in the recognition of written words. The intervention focused on fostering word reading via syllable segmentation. The materials consisted of the 500 most frequent syllables typically read by 6- to 8-year-old children. The aims were to practice phonological recoding, consolidate orthographic representations of syllables, and routinize the access to these representations. Compared to children randomly assigned to a wait-list group, poor readers in the treatment condition showed significant improve...
Source: Learning and Instruction - January 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

People who cheat on tests accurately predict their performance on future tests
Publication date: April 2020Source: Learning and Instruction, Volume 66Author(s): Monika Undorf, Eric Y. Mah, Dawn-Leah L. McDonald, Zachariah I. Hamzagic, Ryan Burnell, Maryanne Garry, Daniel M. BernsteinAbstractStudies suggest that people who cheat on a test overestimate their performance on future tests. Given that erroneous monitoring of one's own cognitive processes impairs learning and memory, this study investigated whether cheating on a test would harm monitoring accuracy on future tests. Participants had the incentive and opportunity to cheat on one (Experiments 1, 2, and 3, with N = 90, 88, and 102, respectivel...
Source: Learning and Instruction - January 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Self-fulfilling prophecies in the classroom: Teacher expectations, teacher feedback and student achievement
This study investigated the link between teacher expectations and student learning, relying on longitudinal data from 64 classrooms and 1026 first-grade students in Germany. Further, based on a subsample of 19 classrooms with 354 students, we explored the mediating role of three characteristics of teacher feedback rated in video-recorded school lessons. The results showed that teacher expectations were inaccurate to some extent; that is, they did not entirely agree with students' current achievement, general cognitive abilities and motivations. In addition, this inaccuracy in teacher expectations significantly predicted st...
Source: Learning and Instruction - January 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research