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{"title":"Your body tells how you engage in collaboration: Machine-detected body movements as indicators of engagement in collaborative math knowledge building","authors":"Hanall Sung,&nbsp;Mitchell J. Nathan","doi":"10.1111/bjet.13473","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjet.13473","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Collaborative learning, driven by knowledge co-construction and meaning negotiation, is a pivotal aspect of educational contexts. While gesture's importance in conveying shared meaning is recognized, its role in collaborative group settings remains understudied. This gap hinders accurate and equitable assessment and instruction, particularly for linguistically diverse students. Advancements in multimodal learning analytics, leveraging sensor technologies, offer innovative solutions for capturing and analysing body movements. This study employs these novel approaches to demonstrate how learners' machine-detected body movements during the learning process relate to their verbal and nonverbal contributions to the co-construction of embodied math knowledge. These findings substantiate the feasibility of utilizing learners' machine-detected body movements as a valid indicator for inferring their engagement with the collaborative knowledge construction process. In addition, we empirically validate that these inferred different levels of learner engagement indeed impact the desired learning outcomes of the intervention. This study contributes to our scientific understanding of multimodal approaches to knowledge expression and assessment in learning, teaching, and collaboration.\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":48315,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Technology","volume":"55 5","pages":"1950-1973"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjet.13473","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140937662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transitioning to blended learning during COVID-19: Exploring instructors and adult learners' experiences in three Ghanaian universities","authors":"Esinam Afi Kayi","doi":"10.1111/bjet.13475","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjet.13475","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Teaching and learning in higher education have increasingly become digitalized and associated with innovative pedagogical methodologies over the past decades. Following the sudden onset of the pandemic in March 2020, several studies tended to focus on traditional students' experiences with emergency remote education while literature is scarce on non-traditional students (or adult learners) pedagogical experiences in Distance Education contexts. Using a qualitative case study approach, this study explored how digital technologies mediated instructors' and adult learners' educational experiences during COVID-19 and their first-time experiences with blended learning. Between October 2021 and July 2022, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 40 adult learners and 20 instructors in three selected public higher education institutions (HEIs) in Ghana. Data analysis followed Braun and Clarke's (2012) thematic analysis approach. The results showed that the transition to blended learning was supported by the adoption and integration of varied virtual online technologies. The themes highlight the positive and negative impacts of technology in mediating the educational experiences of instructors and adult learners in blended learning environments. The themes which reflected both instructors' and adult learners' experiences were enhanced course delivery and pedagogy, competency development, technological issues and poor-quality pedagogy. Blended learning facilitated by technology could be the ‘new normal learning’ post-pandemic for adult learners pursuing Distance Education in Ghana. The study recommends the implementation of agile strategies and policies by HEIs to ensure sustainable quality education in distance learning.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt;Practitioner notes&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 &lt;p&gt;What is already known about this topic\u0000\u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the adoption of innovative pedagogical approaches in higher education contexts.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Technological transformations in information and communication technology (ICT) have enhanced remote teaching in higher education institutions globally.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;The educational experiences of educators and learners differ in blended learning contexts.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 &lt;/ul&gt;\u0000 &lt;p&gt;What this paper adds\u0000\u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Instructors and adult learners' positive experiences with navigating a variety of web-based technologies during the educational process are negatively impacted by technological difficulties during online instruction.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":48315,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Technology","volume":"55 6","pages":"2760-2786"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140937603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining students' acceptance of the large-scale HyFlex course: An empirical study","authors":"Harrison Hao Yang,&nbsp;Zhongyue Yin,&nbsp;Sha Zhu","doi":"10.1111/bjet.13477","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjet.13477","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The HyFlex course has been widely adopted in higher education settings. However, there is a paucity of empirical studies examining students' acceptance of large-scale HyFlex courses, as well as factors influencing their acceptance. To fill this research gap, the present study investigated students' acceptance of a large-scale HyFlex course and the variations in their acceptance according to different participation modes (ie, on-site, synchronously online and mixed attendance), based on a total of 160 valid samples from a large-scale HyFlex course at a normal university in central China during the fall semester of 2022. The results indicated that students' overall HyFlex course acceptance was generally high, and the students who alternately engaged in on-site and synchronously online learning had the highest level of acceptance. Furthermore, this study employed structural equation modelling to validate a model integrating the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology with connected classroom climate (CCC). The findings showed that performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy, facilitating conditions and CCC directly influenced students' acceptance, with performance expectancy having the strongest direct effect. However, social influence only had an indirect effect on students' acceptance, while CCC had both direct and indirect effects. This study carries substantial theoretical and practical implications, enhancing our understanding of students' acceptance of the HyFlex learning approach.\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":48315,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Technology","volume":"56 1","pages":"42-60"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140937605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bridging large language model disparities: Skill tagging of multilingual educational content","authors":"Yerin Kwak,&nbsp;Zachary A. Pardos","doi":"10.1111/bjet.13465","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjet.13465","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;The adoption of large language models (LLMs) in education holds much promise. However, like many technological innovations before them, adoption and access can often be inequitable from the outset, creating more divides than they bridge. In this paper, we explore the magnitude of the country and language divide in the leading open-source and proprietary LLMs with respect to knowledge of K-12 taxonomies in a variety of countries and their performance on tagging problem content with the appropriate skill from a taxonomy, an important task for aligning open educational resources and tutoring content with state curricula. We also experiment with approaches to narrowing the performance divide by enhancing LLM skill tagging performance across four countries (the USA, Ireland, South Korea and India–Maharashtra) for more equitable outcomes. We observe considerable performance disparities not only with non-English languages but with English and non-US taxonomies. Our findings demonstrate that fine-tuning GPT-3.5 with a few labelled examples can improve its proficiency in tagging problems with relevant skills or standards, even for countries and languages that are underrepresented during training. Furthermore, the fine-tuning results show the potential viability of GPT as a multilingual skill classifier. Using both an open-source model, Llama2-13B, and a closed-source model, GPT-3.5, we also observe large disparities in tagging performance between the two and find that fine-tuning and skill information in the prompt improve both, but the closed-source model improves to a much greater extent. Our study contributes to the first empirical results on mitigating disparities across countries and languages with LLMs in an educational context.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt;Practitioner notes&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 &lt;p&gt;What is already known about this topic\u0000\u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Recent advances in generative AI have led to increased applications of LLMs in education, offering diverse opportunities.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;LLMs excel predominantly in English and exhibit a bias towards the US context.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Automated content tagging has been studied using English-language content and taxonomies.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 &lt;/ul&gt;\u0000 &lt;p&gt;What this paper adds\u0000\u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Investigates the country and language disparities in LLMs concerning knowledge of educational taxonomies and their performance in tagging content.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Presents the firs","PeriodicalId":48315,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Technology","volume":"55 5","pages":"2039-2057"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjet.13465","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140937667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adaptive support for self-regulated learning in digital learning environments","authors":"Mohammad Khalil,&nbsp;Jacqueline Wong,&nbsp;Barbara Wasson,&nbsp;Fred Paas","doi":"10.1111/bjet.13479","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjet.13479","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A core focus of self-regulated learning (SRL) research lies in uncovering methods to empower learners within digital learning environments. As digital technologies continue to evolve during the current hype of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, the theoretical, empirical and methodological nuances to support SRL are emerging and offering new ways for adaptive support and guidance for learners. Such affordances offer a unique opportunity for personalised learning experiences, including adaptive interventions. Exploring the application of adaptivity to enhance SRL is an important and emerging area of research that requires further attention. This editorial introduces the contributions of seven papers for the special section on adaptive support for SRL within digital learning environments. These papers explore various themes related to enhancing SRL strategies through technological interventions, offering valuable insights and paving the way for future advancements in this dynamic area.</p>","PeriodicalId":48315,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Technology","volume":"55 4","pages":"1281-1289"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjet.13479","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140887474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pre-service teachers' inclination to integrate AI into STEM education: Analysis of influencing factors","authors":"Fengyao Sun,&nbsp;Peiyao Tian,&nbsp;Daner Sun,&nbsp;Yanhua Fan,&nbsp;Yuqin Yang","doi":"10.1111/bjet.13469","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjet.13469","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;In the ever-evolving AI-driven education, integrating AI technologies into teaching practices has become increasingly imperative for aspiring STEM educators. Yet, there remains a dearth of studies exploring pre-service STEM teachers' readiness to incorporate AI into their teaching practices. This study examined the factors influencing teachers' willingness to integrate AI (WIAI), especially from the perspective of pre-service STEM teachers' attitudes towards the application of AI in teaching. In the study, a comprehensive survey was conducted among 239 pre-service STEM teachers, examining the influences and interconnectedness of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Perceived Usefulness (PU), Perceived Ease of Use (PE), and Self-Efficacy (SE) on WIAI. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was employed for data analysis. The findings illuminated direct influences of TPACK, PU, PE, and SE on WIAI. TPACK was found to directly affect PE, PU, and SE, while PE and PU also directly influenced SE. Further analysis revealed significant mediating roles of PE, PU, and SE in the relationship between TPACK and WIAI, highlighting the presence of a chain mediation effect. In light of these insights, the study offers several recommendations on promoting pre-service STEM teachers' willingness to integrate AI into their teaching practices.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt;Practitioner notes&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 &lt;p&gt;What is already known about this topic?\u0000\u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;The potential of AI technologies to enrich learning experiences and improve outcomes in STEM education has been recognized.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Pre-service teachers' willingness to integrate AI into teaching practice is crucial for shaping the future learning environment.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;The TAM and TPACK frameworks are used to analyse teacher factors in technology-supported learning environments.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Few studies have been conducted for examining factors of pre-service teachers' willingness to integrate AI into teaching practices in the context of STEM education.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 &lt;/ul&gt;\u0000 &lt;p&gt;What this paper adds?\u0000\u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;A survey was designed and developed for exploring pre-service STEM teachers' WIAI and its relationships with factors including TPACK, PE, PU, and SE.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;TPACK, SE, PU, and PE have direct impact on pre-service STEM teachers' WIAI.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;SE, PU, and PE have been identified as mediating variables in the relationship ","PeriodicalId":48315,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Technology","volume":"55 6","pages":"2574-2596"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140837388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Primary school teachers' classroom-based e-assessment practices: Insights from the theory of planned behaviour","authors":"Ying Zhan,&nbsp;Daner Sun,&nbsp;Ho Man Kong,&nbsp;Ye Zeng","doi":"10.1111/bjet.13478","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjet.13478","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is a global trend in the increased adoption of e-assessment in school classrooms to enhance learning. Teachers, as classroom-based assessment designers and implementers, play a vital role in such assessment change. However, little is known about school teachers' classroom-based e-assessment practices and the underlying reasons. To address this research gap, this study identified the factors influencing Hong Kong primary school teachers' e-assessment practices underpinned by the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). A large-scale survey was issued to 878 teachers via Qualtrics. Structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis shows that primary school teachers' intentions of using e-assessment and perceived behavioural control of it were the two strongest factors predicting their e-assessment practices in a general way. Specifically, teachers' intentions outweighed perceived behavioural control in determining their use of alternative e-assessment tasks and e-feedback, but this reversed for e-tests/exercises. The impact of perceived behavioural control was consistent across the three types of e-assessment practices. Furthermore, teachers' attitudes significantly influenced their intentions to use alternative e-assessment tasks, while subject norms primarily predicted their intentions to use e-feedback. The findings have implications for primary schools to take countermeasures to facilitate the successful implementation of e-assessment at the classroom level.\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":48315,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Technology","volume":"55 6","pages":"2740-2759"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjet.13478","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141015211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Co-designing enduring learning analytics prediction and support tools in undergraduate biology courses","authors":"Robert D. Plumley,&nbsp;Matthew L. Bernacki,&nbsp;Jeffrey A. Greene,&nbsp;Shelbi Kuhlmann,&nbsp;Mladen Raković,&nbsp;Christopher J. Urban,&nbsp;Kelly A. Hogan,&nbsp;Chaewon Lee,&nbsp;Abigail T. Panter,&nbsp;Kathleen M. Gates","doi":"10.1111/bjet.13472","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjet.13472","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Even highly motivated undergraduates drift off their STEM career pathways. In large introductory STEM classes, instructors struggle to identify and support these students. To address these issues, we developed co-redesign methods in partnership with disciplinary experts to create high-structure STEM courses that better support students and produce informative digital event data. To those data, we applied theory- and context-relevant labels to reflect active and self-regulated learning processes involving LMS-hosted course materials, formative assessments, and help-seeking tools. We illustrate the predictive benefits of this process across two cycles of model creation and reapplication. In cycle 1, we used theory-relevant features from 3 weeks of data to inform a prediction model that accurately identified struggling students and sustained its accuracy when reapplied in future semesters. In cycle 2, we refit a model with temporally contextualized features that achieved superior accuracy using data from just two class meetings. This modelling approach can produce durable learning analytics solutions that afford scaled and sustained prediction and intervention opportunities that involve explainable artificial intelligence products. Those same products that inform prediction can also guide intervention approaches and inform future instructional design and delivery.\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":48315,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Technology","volume":"55 5","pages":"1860-1883"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141015020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of an academic counselling learning analytics tool: Evidence from 3 years of use","authors":"Valeria Henríquez,&nbsp;Julio Guerra,&nbsp;Eliana Scheihing","doi":"10.1111/bjet.13474","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjet.13474","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Despite the importance of academic counselling for student success, providing timely and personalized guidance can be challenging for higher education institutions. In this study, we investigate the impact of counselling instances supported by a learning analytics (LA) tool, called TrAC, which provides specific data about the curriculum and grades of each student. To evaluate the tool, we measured changes in students' performance ranking position over 3 years and compared the performance of students who received counselling with and without the tool. Our results show that using the tool is related to an improvement in cohort ranking. We further investigated the characteristics of counselled students using cluster analyses. The findings highlight the potential beneficial influence on academic outcomes arising from the provision of guidance to students regarding their course load decisions via TrAC-mediated counselling. This study contributes to the field of LA by providing evidence of the impact of counselling supported by an LA tool in a real-world setting over a long period of time. Our results suggest that incorporating LA into academic counselling practices can improve student success.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt;Practitioner notes&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 &lt;p&gt;What is already known about this topic\u0000\u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;By analysing student performance, teaching strategies and resource impact, learning analytics (LA) empowers institutions to make informed changes in curriculum design, resource allocation and educational policies.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Through insights into academic progress, engagement and behaviour, LA counselling tools enable the identification of at-risk students and those needing additional support.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;In the related literature, there are areas for further exploration such as understanding the scalability and long-term effects of interventions on student success and retention.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 &lt;/ul&gt;\u0000 &lt;p&gt;What this paper adds\u0000\u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Through rigorous data analysis, the paper establishes a connection between LA utilization and enhanced student performance, offering concrete evidence of the effectiveness of LA interventions.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;By examining various factors such as academic stage and course load, the research offers valuable insights into the contextual nuances that optimize the outcomes of LA tool-based support.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;It adds to the growing body of evidence that supports the efficacy of data-driven interventio","PeriodicalId":48315,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Technology","volume":"55 5","pages":"1884-1899"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140812299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Improving executive functions at school. Integrating metacognitive exercise in class and computerized training at home to ensure training intensity and generalization. A feasibility pilot study","authors":"Carlotta Rivella,&nbsp;Clara Bombonato,&nbsp;Chiara Pecini,&nbsp;Andrea Frascari,&nbsp;Paola Viterbori","doi":"10.1111/bjet.13470","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjet.13470","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of executive functions (EFs) training, both in computer-based and school-based formats. However, there is limited research on the combined effects of these training modalities. This study aims to assess the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of an EFs training programme for primary school children. The programme includes computerized training sessions for home use and school activities with metacognitive elements. The study included a sample of 53 second-grade children, with 21 children in the training group and 32 children in the control group. Feasibility questionnaires were completed by children, parents and teachers. The children also underwent an EFs evaluation. The results indicate that the training was enjoyable for children and feasible for parents and teachers. Furthermore, preliminary efficacy analysis revealed significant improvements in working memory. These findings suggest that the training model holds promise for enhancing EFs in children in the school context.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt;Practitioner notes&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 &lt;p&gt;What is already known about this topic\u0000\u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Individual differences in executive functions influence acquisitions, behaviours and competencies in several specific domains from infancy to adulthood.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Enhancing executive functions during school-age years can contribute to reducing or preventing academic, behavioural and social difficulties.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Among interventions targeting executive functions in school-aged children, school-based interventions have shown the highest effectiveness, followed by metacognitive interventions and computer-based interventions.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 &lt;/ul&gt;\u0000 &lt;p&gt;What this paper adds\u0000\u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;This paper presents the implementation of an innovative school-based training programme designed to improve executive functions (EFs). The programme combines metacognitive sessions conducted at school with computer-based sessions carried out at home. The goal was to enhance the effectiveness and generalizability of the training.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;The training programme was found to be enjoyable for children and feasible for both parents and teachers.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Preliminary efficacy data indicate promising results, suggesting that the training programme is effective in achieving its intended goals.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":48315,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Technology","volume":"55 6","pages":"2719-2739"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjet.13470","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140812295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}