A Comparison of Study Behaviors and Metacognitive Evaluation Used by Biology Students.

IF 4.6 2区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES
Sharday N Ewell, Emily P Driessen, William Grogan, Quinn Johnston, Shobnom Ferdous, Yohannes Mehari, Ashley Peart, Michael Seibenhener, Cissy J Ballen
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Abstract

Student-study behaviors and metacognition are predictors of student-academic success. However, student metacognitive evaluation of their own study habit behavior use has been largely unexplored. To address this gap, we gave students enrolled in three different Biology courses (n = 1140) a survey that asked them to identify the study behaviors used to prepare for their first and third exams and to appraise the effectiveness of each behavior. We observed that, across all courses, students used different counts of active- and passive-study behaviors. However, there were no differences in performance across courses, and the use of effective (i.e., active) study behaviors resulted in improved exam performance for all students, regardless of course, while the use of ineffective (i.e., passive) study behaviors had no significant impact on exam performance. Finally, our qualitative analysis revealed that students across all courses demonstrated similar ability in identifying effective-study behaviors, but students could not explain why those behaviors were effective. Taken together, our study demonstrates that students use various study behaviors to prepare for exams without understanding their effectiveness. We encourage instructors to structure their courses to promote the development of metacognitive evaluation and effective-study behaviors.

生物学专业学生学习行为与元认知评价的比较研究。
学生的学习行为和元认知是学生学业成功的预测因素。然而,学生对自己学习习惯行为使用的元认知评价在很大程度上尚未被探索。为了解决这一差距,我们对参加三门不同生物学课程的学生(n=1140)进行了一项调查,要求他们确定用于准备第一次和第三次考试的学习行为,并评估每种行为的有效性。我们观察到,在所有课程中,学生使用了不同数量的主动和被动学习行为。然而,不同课程的成绩没有差异,有效(即主动)学习行为的使用提高了所有学生的考试成绩,而无效(即被动)学习行为对考试成绩没有显著影响。最后,我们的定性分析显示,所有课程的学生在识别有效学习行为方面表现出相似的能力,但学生无法解释为什么这些行为是有效的。总之,我们的研究表明,学生在不了解其有效性的情况下,使用各种学习行为来准备考试。我们鼓励教师构建课程结构,以促进元认知评估和有效学习行为的发展。
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Cbe-Life Sciences Education
Cbe-Life Sciences Education EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES-
CiteScore
6.50
自引率
13.50%
发文量
100
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: CBE—Life Sciences Education (LSE), a free, online quarterly journal, is published by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). The journal was launched in spring 2002 as Cell Biology Education—A Journal of Life Science Education. The ASCB changed the name of the journal in spring 2006 to better reflect the breadth of its readership and the scope of its submissions. LSE publishes peer-reviewed articles on life science education at the K–12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. The ASCB believes that learning in biology encompasses diverse fields, including math, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, and the interdisciplinary intersections of biology with these fields. Within biology, LSE focuses on how students are introduced to the study of life sciences, as well as approaches in cell biology, developmental biology, neuroscience, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, and proteomics.
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