{"title":"Metacognition, calibration, and self-regulated learning: an exploratory study of undergraduates in a business school","authors":"D. Stoten","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1491616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1491616","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a fertile ground for research into learning in higher education. Until now, the dominant research methodology has concentrated on quantitative analyses of separate components within the Zimmerman model with the aim of isolating possible factors in learning trajectories and evaluating their relative importance in the process of learning. Recent approaches to SRL research have sought not only to measure students’ progress, but also to investigate how interventions may generate a positive impact on learning from a qualitative perspective. This research adopted a qualitative approach, and so contributes to the creation of new avenues for SRL research. The research, conducted over two years in a business school at a post-1992 university, involved students enrolled on undergraduate degree in an evaluation of learning diary as a learning aid. The findings suggest that learning diaries may provide scaffolding support for students, especially those who lack confidence.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"60 1","pages":"24 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84596853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Järvenoja, Jonna Malmberg, Sanna Järvelä, Piia Näykki, Heikki Kontturi
{"title":"Investigating students’ situation-specific emotional state and motivational goals during a learning project within one primary school classroom","authors":"H. Järvenoja, Jonna Malmberg, Sanna Järvelä, Piia Näykki, Heikki Kontturi","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1554821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1554821","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explores fluctuation in students’ emotional state and motivational goals during a learning project that requires self-regulation. The research asks the following questions: (1) How do students’ emotional state and motivational goal fluctuate between the gStudy learning sessions during a two-month project? (2) How do students with different situational motivation describe their use of motivation regulation strategies? and (3) How is students’ situational motivation associated with their learning outcomes? The students (N = 20) in one classroom evaluated their emotional state and motivational goals repeatedly with an emotion awareness tool during a two-month-long science project. At the end of the project, they completed a learning test and were interviewed about their regulation strategies. The results show that the students’ situational motivation fluctuated in the course of the learning project. The students with a trend of a low situational motivation reported particularly the use of performance and mastery self-talk strategies, the students with moderate situational motivation emphasised environmental structuring and self-consequating, while the students with high situational motivation reported the use of self-consequating and interest enhancement strategies. The students typically reporting high or moderate situational motivation gained significantly more inquiry learning skills compared to their peers with low situational motivation.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"24 1","pages":"23 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88362322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Professional identity in relation to vocational teachers’ work: an identity-centred approach to professional development","authors":"Katja Vähäsantanen, Raija H. Hämäläinen","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1487573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1487573","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper reports a study on teachers’ professional identity and work in vocational education. The findings showed that vocational teachers’ work included vocational teaching within the school, developmental work, technology-enhanced work, professional duties outside the school, and educational duties within the school. Furthermore, the study revealed the harmonious and tensioned relationships between these elements of the work and teachers’ identities. Recognition of the nuanced nature of these relationships provides a perspective for promoting teachers’ professional development. From a practical perspective, there is a need to support vocational teachers’ identity work and the adoption of new technologies for their teaching. The findings also illuminate the emotionally imbued relationship between work and professional identity.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"8 1","pages":"48 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84291163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distributed practice in classroom inquiry science learning","authors":"Vanessa Svihla, M. Wester, M. Linn","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2017.1371321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2017.1371321","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study is inspired by laboratory studies demonstrating that distributing study sessions over time better supports learning and retention than clustering sessions. We compare two implementations of a multi-day inquiry science unit: in the clustered instruction condition, students completed an inquiry unit in five consecutive class periods. In the distributed instruction condition, students completed one activity per week for five weeks. Both conditions resulted in significant and similar gains in understanding and retention overall. Students’ self-directed revisits to previously studied materials differed by condition, with students in the clustered condition tending to visit materials studied on previous days. These distal revisits explained variance in delayed post-test scores as an interaction effect with condition. Students in the clustered condition who revisited distal materials tended to score higher on the delayed post-test, whereas those in the distributed condition who did so tended to score lower. Our findings illustrate the complexity of realising laboratory findings in classrooms under real-world conditions.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"83 1","pages":"180 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83805322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why STEM? Why now? Educating for technologies, or technologies for education?","authors":"M. Tan","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1511275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1511275","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The STEM movement is a recent phenomenon receiving worldwide attention as the darling educational project for school systems and research centres. This interest has no doubt been fuelled by economic rationales of the supposed necessity of STEM for continued material wealth, and the claims that the future will require a different sort of expertise than what we currently possess. However, not as a conservative response, but as a critical one, it is important for us to become clearer about what it is that we would want students to learn. In addition, as researchers and practitioners, it is imperative that we distinguish hype from reality, if only because we need to learn from our collective institutional histories and claim some form of ownership over the direction of our work. Interdisciplinary STEM education does provide opportunities for educators to deeply confront such issues as the ethics of invention, and the distinction between the descriptive and normative disciplines. Yet, these gains are likely to be drowned out by the much louder clamour for flashy new things to fill new rooms with rearranged furniture. This commentary is intended as a reminder to the community to do the hard, unglamorous work required to make worthwhile learning happen.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"32 1","pages":"203 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86706383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviewers (2017–2018)","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1518308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1518308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"508 1","pages":"210 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77455756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When the type of assessment counteracts teaching for understanding","authors":"Jasmin Leber, A. Renkl, M. Nückles, K. Wäschle","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2017.1285422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2017.1285422","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT According to the model of constructive alignment, learners adjust their learning strategies to the announced assessment (backwash effect). Hence, when teaching for understanding, the assessment method should be aligned with this teaching goal to ensure that learners engage in corresponding learning strategies. A quasi-experimental field study with 81 university students was conducted to test whether “downward misalignment” – such as using and announcing a fact-oriented test when trying to teach for understanding – reduces learners’ use of sophisticated learning strategies, learning motivation, and learning outcomes in terms of understanding. We found that learners in the alignment condition applied more elaboration strategies and revealed better learning outcomes in terms of understanding. The well-aligned learning situation also led to higher perceived competence and less feeling of being under pressure. These findings confirm the backwash effect. For classroom practice, they underline the importance of carefully aligning teaching goals and assessment when teaching for understanding.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"19 1","pages":"161 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80454216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenging learning conventions","authors":"Elizabeth Koh, H. So","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1512220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1512220","url":null,"abstract":"This is the final draft, after peer-review, of a manuscript published in Learning: Research and Practice. The published version is available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/23735082.2018.1512220","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"32 1","pages":"127 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82911360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew W. Easterday, Daniel G. Rees Lewis, E. Gerber
{"title":"The logic of design research","authors":"Matthew W. Easterday, Daniel G. Rees Lewis, E. Gerber","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2017.1286367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2017.1286367","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since the first descriptions of design research (DR), there have been calls to better define it to increase its rigour. Yet five uncertainties remain: (1) the processes for conducting DR, (2) how DR differs from other forms of research, (3) how DR differs from design, (4) the products of DR, and (5) why DR can answer certain research questions more effectively than other methodologies. To resolve these uncertainties, we define educational design research as a meta-methodology conducted by education researchers to create practical interventions and theoretical design models through a design process of focusing, understanding, defining, conceiving, building, testing, and presenting, that recursively nests other research processes to iteratively search for empirical solutions to practical problems of human learning. By better articulating the logic of DR, researchers can more effectively craft, communicate, replicate, and teach DR as a useful and defensible research methodology.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"74 1","pages":"131 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85717749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mindfulness for adulting","authors":"H. Bai, A. Cohen, M. Miyakawa, T. Falkenberg","doi":"10.1080/23735082.2018.1428081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2018.1428081","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper calls for ethical responsibility to manifest a holistic, embodied, and deeply relational vision of what it means to actualise fuller human flourishing than how we, humanity as a whole, are behaving currently. A thesis is presented that humanity is experiencing an arrest within the trajectory of species’ psychological development and that mindfulness cultivation can facilitate transformation. This thesis comes with a proviso that mindfulness needs to be taken up differently from the dominant discourse around it. A case is made that contemporary mindfulness is most often implicitly and explicitly fuelled by conventional “ordinary consciousness” whose primary function is survival supported by the fear-driven fight–flight–freeze neural assemblage. Suggestions are made that mindfulness be understood as a way of accessing non-ordinary consciousness that sees the world relationally in terms of expansive self-other integration. For this, further suggestions are made that mindfulness be placed back into a larger context, for example, practice-based Buddhist philosophy and psychology, that addresses existential suffering and proffers a comprehensive holistic educational programme. Such a programme cultivates human potential and supports relationally generous and generative human flourishing. As a concrete practice proposal for transitioning into a relational paradigm, inner work is proposed and illustrated with examples.","PeriodicalId":52244,"journal":{"name":"Learning: Research and Practice","volume":"38 1","pages":"12 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82090465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}