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Nine partner languages, one path: Minority language reading proficiency development among German two-way immersion students 九种伙伴语言，一条道路：德语双向沉浸式学习学生的少数民族语言阅读能力发展

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Learning and Instruction Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102047

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Effects of SI-PASS on a high-risk course – A randomized controlled trial SI-PASS 对高风险课程的影响--随机对照试验

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Learning and Instruction Pub Date : 2024-11-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102042

{"title":"Effects of SI-PASS on a high-risk course – A randomized controlled trial","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>SI-PASS is a structured academic support program employing successful later-year students to facilitate peer-learning sessions attached to high-risk courses, specifically here statistics for psychology at ULiège. The research translates as: How much does this method improve academic performance and impact socio-affective perceptions in first-year students?</div></div><div><h3>Aims</h3><div>This study compares academic performance and socio-affective variables of first-year students in the experimental condition and the control condition.</div></div><div><h3>Sample</h3><div>Participants were 245 freshmen for the experimental trial, and 985 for the quasi-experimental trial.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Participants were assigned to either participate to the SI-PASS scheme or not during the first semester following a randomized controlled trial with stratified random assignment method. Then, the whole cohort enlisted for the course was analyzed to validate supplementary hypotheses.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The first step of the study reveals no difference between both groups on academic performance, unless the level of attendance is considered; nor does it identify any significant impact on socio-affective variables. The second step consisted in the comparison of the experimental group and the group of students who chose not to volunteer for SI-PASS and resulted in significant improvement in academic performance in favor of SI-PASS.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>This delivered significant results in favor of the program but only when attendance is considered, thus offering empirical evidence that a genuine experimental design is likely to mitigate the effects found in a tradition of quasi-experimental designs. These results are valuable for the SI-PASS community, where randomized trials are still scarce, and for higher education institutions seeking evidence-based assistance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48357,"journal":{"name":"Learning and Instruction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142572550","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}

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How to teach Bayesian reasoning: An empirical study comparing four different probability training courses 如何教授贝叶斯推理：比较四种不同概率培训课程的实证研究

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Learning and Instruction Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102032

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Context counts: Unveiling the impact of achievement level on teachers’ text assessment 情境很重要：揭示成绩水平对教师文本评价的影响

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Learning and Instruction Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102046

{"title":"Context counts: Unveiling the impact of achievement level on teachers’ text assessment","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102046","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Teachers' assessments of student writing proficiency are essential for adaptive instruction and providing feedback. However, studies have revealed a lack of objectivity in text quality ratings of the same text in different contexts, although texts of identical quality should receive identical teacher judgments.</div></div><div><h3>Aims</h3><div>Our two studies – one experimental and one more ecologically valid – address whether the achievement level impacts teachers’ individual text assessments even when relevant explicit criteria are used.</div></div><div><h3>Samples</h3><div>In Study 1, participants were 102 student teachers from a university in Germany. In Study 2, participants were 136 student teachers and 91 experienced teachers from Germany.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>In Study 1, participants were randomly assigned to two groups. Student teachers in the high-achievement level group assessed three high-quality texts and one standard text with average quality. Student teachers in the low-achievement level group assessed three low-quality texts and the same standard text with average quality. Participants in Study 2 assessed ten texts randomly drawn from a large corpus.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The comparison of the standard text in Study 1 showed that student teachers in the high-level achievement group assessed it more negatively on a holistic scale and three analytic scales compared to the low-level achievement group. Multi-level data analysis in Study 2 revealed a negative influence of the quality of the achievement level on the text assessment for experienced and for student teachers.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>We discuss how the achievement level can bias teachers’ judgments of specific student performances when concrete assessment criteria should be used.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48357,"journal":{"name":"Learning and Instruction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142573159","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}

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Understanding teacher judgments of student motivation: The role of (un-)available cues 了解教师对学生学习动机的判断：无法获得的线索的作用

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Learning and Instruction Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102029

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Competitive orientations in academically talented youth: Associations with psychosocial and school-related variables 有学习天赋的青少年的竞争取向：与社会心理和学校相关变量的联系

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Learning and Instruction Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102038

{"title":"Competitive orientations in academically talented youth: Associations with psychosocial and school-related variables","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102038","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102038","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>There are contrasting views of competition in educational settings and recent research has suggested that individuals have different competitive orientations. In this study, we assessed competitive orientations in a sample of high achieving adolescents in the United States. We also examined the association of competitive orientations to self-reported academic and psychosocial outcomes.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Participants consisted of 420 academically talented students attending a summer program. Academic outcomes included academic self-efficacy, academic engagement, school belonging, and positive views of teachers; psychosocial outcomes included work ethic, hope, and curiosity. The 15-item version of the Multidimensional Competitive Orientation Inventory was used to measure competitive orientations.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Results supported the psychometric integrity of five competitive orientations: Self-Developmental, Hypercompetitive, Anxiety-Driven, Fear of Losing, and Lack of Interest. The Self-Developmental competitive orientation was positively associated with most of the outcome variables, but the Hypercompetitive orientation was not, and the other three orientations were negatively related to outcomes. Latent profile analyses yielded four profiles labeled Self-Developmental, Uninterested Anxious, Avoidant, and Conflicted Competitors. The Self-Developmental and the Conflicted Competitors reported higher scores than the Avoidant Competitors on the majority of outcomes, and higher scores than the Uninterested Anxious group on half of the outcomes.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The results suggest that competitive orientations can be measured with integrity in high achieving students and play a role in how these students engage in the world. We contend that competitive orientations should be considered in studies of competition and competitive contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48357,"journal":{"name":"Learning and Instruction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142552870","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}

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Student-teachers’ understanding of language teaching through the CLIL Language Triptych 学生教师通过 CLIL 语言三部曲对语言教学的理解

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Learning and Instruction Pub Date : 2024-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102044

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Constructive feedback can function as a reward: Students’ emotional profiles in reaction to feedback perception mediate associations with task interest 建设性反馈可以起到奖励的作用：学生对反馈感知的情绪特征与任务兴趣之间的联系

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Learning and Instruction Pub Date : 2024-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102030

{"title":"Constructive feedback can function as a reward: Students’ emotional profiles in reaction to feedback perception mediate associations with task interest","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102030","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102030","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Students need support when working on complex tasks such as writing. Reward-learning theories posit that verbal rewards, like feedback-depending on its design-can support students' extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. So far, empirical studies have focused on using praise feedback to foster extrinsic motivation. However, researchers have argued that fostering intrinsic compared to extrinsic motivation has more sustainable effects and that constructive feedback can also function as an intrinsic reward by supporting students’ knowledge acquisition.</div></div><div><h3>Aims</h3><div>We investigated whether constructive feedback that students perceive as useful can sustain triggered situational interest and support writing performance by being a rewarding experience, indicated by a positive emotional response to receiving feedback.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>We asked 1709 secondary students to write and revise a text after receiving constructive feedback designed to foster knowledge acquisition. To test whether the feedback worked as a reward (i.e., elicited a positive emotional reaction), we estimated a causal mediation model with perceived feedback usefulness as the predictor, latent profiles of students' emotional responses as the mediator, and students’ interest and revision performance change as the outcome.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Students who perceived the feedback as useful showed a more positive interest change. As indicated by the indirect effects, the relation can be partially explained by students’ emotional reactions, especially when students perceived the feedback as highly useful. No relations were found for writing performance.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Our results suggest that constructive feedback that students perceive as highly useful for their knowledge acquisition can function as a constructive reward.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48357,"journal":{"name":"Learning and Instruction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142539892","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}

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Language abilities and metacognitive monitoring development: Divergent longitudinal pathways for native and non-native speaking children 语言能力和元认知监控发展：母语和非母语儿童的不同纵向发展途径

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Learning and Instruction Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102043

{"title":"Language abilities and metacognitive monitoring development: Divergent longitudinal pathways for native and non-native speaking children","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102043","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102043","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>The ability to accurately evaluate one's task performance (metacognitive monitoring) is crucial for children's learning and academic achievement, but mechanisms explaining monitoring development remain to be uncovered.</div></div><div><h3>Aim</h3><div>We investigated the role of language abilities for metacognitive monitoring in five to seven-year-old native and non-native speakers.</div></div><div><h3>Sample</h3><div>Data stems from an ongoing German large-scale assessment (National Educational Panel Study) initiated in 2010 (<em>N</em> = 9167; 49.6 % male).</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We computed cross-lagged panel models including measurements of children's language abilities and metacognitive monitoring (in math and science tasks) in kindergarten and grade one.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Earlier language abilities predicted later metacognitive monitoring for native (β = −.21), but not for non-native speakers (β = −.07). Conversely, metacognitive monitoring predicted language abilities for non-native (β = .53), but not for native speakers (β = .03).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Fundamentally different mechanisms appear to drive native and non-native speakers’ metacognitive monitoring development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48357,"journal":{"name":"Learning and Instruction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535899","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}

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The impact of a block-based visual programming curriculum: Untangling coding skills and computational thinking 基于块的可视化编程课程的影响：解开编码技能与计算思维之间的联系

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Learning and Instruction Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102041

{"title":"The impact of a block-based visual programming curriculum: Untangling coding skills and computational thinking","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>and Context: Computer programming is increasingly being taught to young children worldwide. Quality programming curricula are needed to enable students to explore computer science concepts and develop a positive attitude towards programming. However, few studies have been conducted on the available curricula for young learners.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study aims to provide an evidence-based, public, and free computer science curriculum for early childhood education by investigating the efficacy of the CAL-ScratchJr curriculum, among second graders.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>A cluster-randomized controlled trial involving 11 schools and 21 second-grade classrooms was conducted to examine the impact of the 24-lesson curriculum on students’ coding proficiency and computational thinking.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>The results indicated that the CAL-ScratchJr curriculum intervention had a medium positive effect on second graders’ coding skills, but no significant impact on computational thinking.</div></div><div><h3>Implications</h3><div>Results caution against incorporating disconnected abstract computational thinking practices in education. The features of the curriculum were discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48357,"journal":{"name":"Learning and Instruction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535867","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}

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