Goal Setting and Procedure Selection in Acquiring Computer Skills: A Comparison of Tutorials, Problem Solving, and Learner Exploration

Charney, Davida; Reder, Lynne M.; Kusbit, Gail W.

doi:10.1207/s1532690xci0704_3

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“…Planning support may, as Charney et al (1990) have postulated, be especially helpful for subjects who have low prior knowledge. Planning support takes away decisions from learners and in this way helps them in managing the learning process.…”

Section: Support For Regulative Learning Processesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Goal setting is also reported as a problem (for subjects with low prior knowledge) by Charney, Reder, and Kusbit (1990). In a more general way Veenman and Elshout (1995) found that, over a number of studies, individuals with a high intellectual ability showed a better working method than individuals with a low intellectual ability, but also that working method had its own contribution to learning outcome on top of intellectual ability.…”

Section: Regulation Of Discovery Learningmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Scientific Discovery Learning with Computer Simulations of Conceptual Domains

Jong

Joolingen

1998

Review of Educational Research

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Scientific discovery learning is a highly self-directed and constructivistic form of learning. A computer simulation is a type of computer-based environment that is very suited for discovery learning, the main task of the learner being to infer, through experimentation, characteristics of the model underlying the simulation. In this article we give a review of the observed effectiveness and efficiency of discovery learning in simulation environments together with problems that learners may encounter in discovery learning, and we discuss how simulations may be combined with instructional support in order to overcome these problems.

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Section: Support For Regulative Learning Processesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Regulation Of Discovery Learningmentioning

confidence: 98%

Scientific Discovery Learning with Computer Simulations of Conceptual Domains

Jong

Joolingen

1998

Review of Educational Research

1,024

383

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“…Veenman, Elshout, and Meijer (1997) who followed learners in a number of simulation based discovery environments report an effect of metacognitive abilities on the discovery learning process and learning results. Charney, Reder, and Kusbit (1990) and Teodoro (1992) claim that subjects have considerable problems with setting goals for themselves. Supporting the learner in the planning and goal setting process was already taken up by Showalter (1970) who used questions as a way to guide the learner through the discovery process.…”

Section: Assignments As a Support For Discovery Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self‐directed learning in simulation‐based discovery environments

Jong¹,

Joolingen²,

Swaak³

et al. 1998

Computer Assisted Learning

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SIMQUEST is an authoring system for designing and creating simulation‐based learning environments. The special character of SIMQUEST learning environments is that they include cognitive support for learners which means that they provide learners with support in the discovery process. In SIMQUEST learning environments, a balance is sought between direct guidance of the learning process and sufficient freedom for learners to regulate the learning process themselves. This paper describes the basic mechanisms of the SIMQUEST learning and authoring environments. The functionality authors have in providing the learner with guidance and some of the experiences on how authors use these opportunities and learners employ the cognitive support are reported.

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“…Several studies compared examples that vary in the VanLAhn. Jones & Chi amount of explanation accompanying their solutions (Charney, Reder & Kusbit, 1990;Reed, Dempster & Ettinger: 1985;Ward & Sweller, 1990), often finding that less explanation actually leads to more learning.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%