Patrick Sins, Renske de Leeuw, Jaap de Brouwer, Emmy Vrieling-Teunter
{"title":"Promoting explicit instruction of strategies for self-regulated learning: evaluating a teacher professional development program in primary education","authors":"Patrick Sins, Renske de Leeuw, Jaap de Brouwer, Emmy Vrieling-Teunter","doi":"10.1007/s11409-023-09368-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09368-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Self-regulated learning (SRL) is crucial to students’ learning. SRL is characterized by students taking initiative, showing perseverance and adaptively regulating their learning. Teachers play an essential role in promoting and fostering this process. However, several studies have shown that in primary education explicit instruction of SRL strategies barely takes place. Given the relevance of SRL for learning and preparing students for the knowledge society of the 21st century, it is of crucial importance that teachers in primary education learn how they can improve their students’ SRL. In the present study, we implemented a professional development program (iSELF) in which primary teachers were trained and coached in promoting and fostering their students’ SRL. The extent to which iSELF contributed to teachers’ explicit instruction of SRL strategies was evaluated in a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test design using video-based classroom observations. Thirty teachers from fourteen different primary schools participated in this study and were assigned to either a control (twelve teachers) or an experimental group (eighteen teachers). Results indicate that in both conditions explicit SRL strategy instruction is rare. However, explicit instruction of SRL strategies is significantly higher in the experimental group on the post-test compared to the control group showing that teachers do benefit from learning about explicit SRL instruction.</p>","PeriodicalId":47385,"journal":{"name":"Metacognition and Learning","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139053159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating multiple cues in metamemory: using the illusory effect of font size and level of processing to inform FOK judgments","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s11409-023-09367-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09367-6","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Metamemory judgments, defined as predictions of memory performance, are often influenced by misleading cues, such as fluency. However, how fluency cues compete to influence retrospective metamemory judgments is still unclear. The present study investigated how multiple fluency cues concurrently influence immediate feeling of knowing (FOK) judgments with two fluency manipulations—font size (large vs. small font size) as a perceptual cue and level of processing (deep vs. shallow processing) as a conceptual cue. In Experiment 1, participants studied large or small unrelated word pairs and were either directed to process the conceptual aspects of each word pair (deep) or to focus on the perceptual aspects of the word pairs (shallow). Then participants were presented with a cued recall test and asked to make an FOK judgment. Lastly, participants received a five alternative- forced-choice recognition test. Experiment 2 was similar except the deep condition was replaced with a no-processing (no instruction) condition. Results revealed that perceptual fluency (large font size) influenced FOK judgments only when word pairs were processed in the shallow condition in both experiments compared to no-processing condition. This interaction of multiple cues suggests that, participants rely on information which is easily accessible to them (perceptual fluency) for FOK judgements in presence of certain secondary cues despite those cues being less diagnostic of future memory performance. These new insights inform how people integrate different sources of information in metamemory decisions and have broad implications for settings including academic learning and everyday decision making.</p>","PeriodicalId":47385,"journal":{"name":"Metacognition and Learning","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138688795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Scaffolding students’ use of metacognitive activities using discipline- and topic-specific reflective prompts","authors":"Elien Sijmkens, M. De Cock, T. De Laet","doi":"10.1007/s11409-023-09365-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09365-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47385,"journal":{"name":"Metacognition and Learning","volume":"24 1","pages":"845 - 845"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139222749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scaffolding students’ use of metacognitive activities using discipline- and topic-specific reflective prompts","authors":"Elien Sijmkens, Mieke De Cock, Tinne De Laet","doi":"10.1007/s11409-023-09363-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09363-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To become proficient problem solvers, science and engineering students have to acquire the skill of self-regulating their problem-solving processes, a skill supported by their metacognitive abilities. The Disciplinary Learning Companion (DLC) is an online tool designed to scaffold students’ use of metacognitive activities through discipline-specific and even topic-specific reflective prompts. Our research focuses on the effectiveness of these reflective prompts in fostering metacognitive abilities. A prior study demonstrated a positive relationship between students’ interaction with the DLC and their academic achievement. The current study investigates whether an increase in metacognitive abilities can partially explain this relationship. To this end, we study the relationship between students’ interaction with the DLC and their strategic approach to solving an exam problem, using the latter as an indicator for metacognitive abilities. Additionally, since students’ prior metacognitive abilities may influence this relationship, we investigate how the results are affected by students’ prior abilities. Our findings indicate that, compared to students who had minimal or no interaction with the DLC, those who engaged more frequently with the DLC exhibited a more strategic approach to solving an exam problem. Notably, this effect was particularly pronounced among students who interacted with the DLC’s reflection module that focused on the physics topic relevant to the specific exam question. These results persist when we control for students’ prior metacognitive abilities. In conclusion, students’ improvement in academic achievement can be attributed to a combination of enhanced conceptual understanding of the particular physics topic and an improved strategic approach to problem solving.</p>","PeriodicalId":47385,"journal":{"name":"Metacognition and Learning","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scaffolding students’ use of metacognitive activities using discipline- and topic-specific reflective prompts","authors":"Elien Sijmkens, Mieke De Cock, Tinne De Laet","doi":"10.1007/s11409-023-09363-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09363-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To become proficient problem solvers, science and engineering students have to acquire the skill of self-regulating their problem-solving processes, a skill supported by their metacognitive abilities. The Disciplinary Learning Companion (DLC) is an online tool designed to scaffold students’ use of metacognitive activities through discipline-specific and even topic-specific reflective prompts. Our research focuses on the effectiveness of these reflective prompts in fostering metacognitive abilities. A prior study demonstrated a positive relationship between students’ interaction with the DLC and their academic achievement. The current study investigates whether an increase in metacognitive abilities can partially explain this relationship. To this end, we study the relationship between students’ interaction with the DLC and their strategic approach to solving an exam problem, using the latter as an indicator for metacognitive abilities. Additionally, since students’ prior metacognitive abilities may influence this relationship, we investigate how the results are affected by students’ prior abilities. Our findings indicate that, compared to students who had minimal or no interaction with the DLC, those who engaged more frequently with the DLC exhibited a more strategic approach to solving an exam problem. Notably, this effect was particularly pronounced among students who interacted with the DLC’s reflection module that focused on the physics topic relevant to the specific exam question. These results persist when we control for students’ prior metacognitive abilities. In conclusion, students’ improvement in academic achievement can be attributed to a combination of enhanced conceptual understanding of the particular physics topic and an improved strategic approach to problem solving.</p>","PeriodicalId":47385,"journal":{"name":"Metacognition and Learning","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joep van der Graaf, Mladen Raković, Yizhou Fan, Lyn Lim, Shaveen Singh, Maria Bannert, Dragan Gašević, Inge Molenaar
{"title":"How to design and evaluate personalized scaffolds for self-regulated learning","authors":"Joep van der Graaf, Mladen Raković, Yizhou Fan, Lyn Lim, Shaveen Singh, Maria Bannert, Dragan Gašević, Inge Molenaar","doi":"10.1007/s11409-023-09361-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09361-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Self-regulation is an essential skill for lifelong learning. Research has shown that self-regulated learning (SRL) leads to greater academic achievement and sustainable education, but students often struggle with SRL. Scaffolds are widely reported as an effective and efficient support method for SRL. To further improve digital scaffolds’ effectiveness, real-time detection of learning behavior can be used to personalize scaffolds. Therefore, the present study aimed to inform the field of scaffolding SRL by reporting on the design and evaluation of digital scaffolds. We present decisions made during the design process of personalized scaffolds to inform future scaffold designs. We evaluated how scaffolds were personalized based on real-time detection SRL, how university students respond to the scaffolds (i.e., compliance), and how this response is related to learning outcomes (i.e., quality of an essay). The research design was a pre-posttest with three conditions (no, generalized (same for all), or personalized scaffolds). A 45-minute reading and writing task was used, during which SRL processes were recorded in real-time. Findings revealed that different real-time SRL processes could be used to personalize scaffolds, meaning that we were able to personalize the content of scaffold based on students’ actual learning behavior. In addition, students in the personalized condition complied more with the scaffolds than students in the other conditions. This compliance with the scaffolds was generally associated with better learning outcomes. To conclude, our approach showed how design decisions could be evaluated and provided insight into the personalization of scaffolds.","PeriodicalId":47385,"journal":{"name":"Metacognition and Learning","volume":"102 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135390052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to special issue on facilitating self-regulated learning with scaffolds: Recent advances and future directions","authors":"Joep van der Graaf, Michelle Taub, Yizhou Fan","doi":"10.1007/s11409-023-09364-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09364-9","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is important for learners to engage in self-regulated learning (SRL), as it predicts academic achievement in a wide range of disciplines. However, SRL can be difficult to enact. Therefore, scaffolds have been designed to support SRL. In our introductory article to this special issue on facilitating SRL with scaffolds, we present a framework to categorize different scaffolds, place the contributions to this special issue in the framework, present highlights from the contributions, and conclude with a discussion on designing scaffolds to facilitate SRL.","PeriodicalId":47385,"journal":{"name":"Metacognition and Learning","volume":"14 7‐8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135590235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the impact of concept-oriented faded WOE and metacognitive scaffolding on learners’ transfer performance and motivation in programming education","authors":"Yoonhee Shin, Jaewon Jung, Hyun Ji Lee","doi":"10.1007/s11409-023-09362-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09362-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47385,"journal":{"name":"Metacognition and Learning","volume":"66 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135933798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnic minority multilingual young learners’ longitudinal development of metacognitive knowledge and breadth of vocabulary knowledge","authors":"Mark Feng Teng, Lawrence Jun Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s11409-023-09360-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09360-z","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Ethnolinguistic minority students may have lower levels of metacognitive knowledge and English vocabulary knowledge than non-minority students. Nevertheless, few longitudinal studies have examined their growth trajectories of metacognitive knowledge and English vocabulary knowledge over time. Drawing upon a latent growth curve model, the present study aims to contrast two groups of students’ growth trajectories in metacognitive knowledge and breadth of English vocabulary knowledge: with a sample of 115 ethnolinguistic Yao minority and 108 ethnolinguistic majority Han students. The results showed that both groups improved their metacognitive knowledge and breadth of English vocabulary knowledge from third grade to sixth grade in a cumulative trend. Metacognitive knowledge predicted the breadth of English vocabulary knowledge throughout the examined school years. The results also highlighted differences in the students’ development of metacognitive knowledge and breadth of English vocabulary knowledge. The ethnolinguistic Yao minority students lagged behind their ethnolinguistic majority Han counterparts. The findings suggest a need for pedagogical interventions to enhance ethnolinguistic minority students’ metacognitive knowledge and English vocabulary knowledge.","PeriodicalId":47385,"journal":{"name":"Metacognition and Learning","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135617065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew L. Bernacki, Megan Claire Cogliano, Shelbi L. Kuhlmann, Jenifer Utz, Christy Strong, Jonathan C. Hilpert, Jeffrey A. Greene
{"title":"Relations between undergraduates’ self-regulated learning skill mastery during digital training and biology performance","authors":"Matthew L. Bernacki, Megan Claire Cogliano, Shelbi L. Kuhlmann, Jenifer Utz, Christy Strong, Jonathan C. Hilpert, Jeffrey A. Greene","doi":"10.1007/s11409-023-09356-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09356-9","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Undergraduate STEM lecture courses enroll hundreds who must master declarative, conceptual, and applied learning objectives. To support them, instructors have turned to active learning designs that require students to engage in self-regulated learning (SRL). Undergraduates struggle with SRL, and universities provide courses, workshops, and digital training to scaffold SRL skill development and enactment. We examined two theory-aligned designs of digital skill trainings that scaffold SRL and how students’ demonstration of metacognitive knowledge of learning skills predicted exam performance in biology courses where training took place. In Study 1, students’ ( n = 49) responses to training activities were scored for quality and summed by training topic and level of understanding. Behavioral and environmental regulation knowledge predicted midterm and final exam grades; knowledge of SRL processes did not. Declarative and conceptual levels of skill-mastery predicted exam performance; application-level knowledge did not. When modeled by topic at each level of understanding, declarative knowledge of behavioral and environmental regulation and conceptual knowledge of cognitive strategies predicted final exam performance. In Study 2 (n = 62), knowledge demonstrated during a redesigned video-based multimedia version of behavioral and environmental regulation again predicted biology exam performance. Across studies, performance on training activities designed in alignment with skill-training models predicted course performances and predictions were sustained in a redesign prioritizing learning efficiency. Training learners’ SRL skills –and specifically cognitive strategies and environmental regulation– benefited their later biology course performances across studies, which demonstrate the value of providing brief, digital activities to develop learning skills. Ongoing refinement to materials designed to develop metacognitive processing and learners’ ability to apply skills in new contexts can increase benefits.","PeriodicalId":47385,"journal":{"name":"Metacognition and Learning","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135350677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}