The benefit of reflection prompts for encouraging learning with hints in an online programming course

IF 6.4 1区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Heeryung Choi , Jelena Jovanovic , Oleksandra Poquet , Christopher Brooks , Srećko Joksimović , Joseph Jay Williams
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While giving learners hints is a commonly used scaffolding practice to facilitate learning, previous work questioned the effectiveness of hints. In this study, we examined if prompting learners to reflect along with receiving hints could improve learning outcomes, including immediate and delayed performance, perceived learning, and enjoyment. A field experiment was conducted in a four-week long online master’s degree course on data science where we compared two conditions: a condition with hints and a condition providing reflection prompts along with hints. Results showed that using hints with reflection prompts increased learner performance in delayed knowledge transfer tasks while also increasing learners’ perception of learning. The combination of reflection prompts and hints did not reduce learners’ enjoyment of the tasks, suggesting that the use of hints with reflection prompts is not only an intervention which can improve learning outcomes but is one which will be naturally adopted by learners.

反思的好处促使在线编程课程中通过提示鼓励学习
虽然给学习者暗示是一种常用的脚手架练习,以促进学习,但之前的工作对暗示的有效性提出了质疑。在这项研究中,我们检验了促使学习者在接受暗示的同时进行反思是否可以改善学习结果,包括即时和延迟的表现、感知的学习和享受。在为期四周的数据科学在线硕士学位课程中进行了一项实地实验,我们比较了两种条件:一种是有提示的条件,另一种是提供反思提示和提示的条件。结果表明,将提示与反思提示结合使用可以提高学习者在延迟知识转移任务中的表现,同时也提高了学习者的学习感知。反思提示和暗示的结合并没有降低学习者对任务的享受,这表明将暗示与反思提示结合使用不仅是一种可以改善学习结果的干预措施,而且是学习者自然会采用的干预措施。
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Internet and Higher Education
Internet and Higher Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
CiteScore
19.30
自引率
4.70%
发文量
30
审稿时长
40 days
期刊介绍: The Internet and Higher Education is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal focused on contemporary issues and future trends in online learning, teaching, and administration within post-secondary education. It welcomes contributions from diverse academic disciplines worldwide and provides a platform for theory papers, research studies, critical essays, editorials, reviews, case studies, and social commentary.
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