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Nugteren, Michelle L.; Jarodzka, Halszka; Kester, Liesbeth; Van Merriënboer, Jeroen J. G. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Secondary school students often learn new cognitive skills by practicing with tasks that vary in difficulty, amount of support and/or content. Occasionally, they have to select these tasks themselves. Studies on task-selection guidance investigated either procedural guidance (specific rules for selecting tasks) or strategic guidance (general rules…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Guidance, Task Analysis
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Hsiao, Ya Ping; Brouns, Francis; van Bruggen, Jan; Sloep, Peter B. – Educational Studies, 2015
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of training tutors in content knowledge of a particular domain versus training them in tutoring skills of pedagogical knowledge when tutoring on a complex tutee task. Forty-seven tutor--tutee pairs of fourth-year secondary school students were created and assigned to one of the two treatments.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutor Training, Peer Teaching, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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van den Berge, Kees; van Gog, Tamara; Mamede, Silvia; Schmidt, Henk G.; van Saase, Jan L. C. M.; Rikers, Remy M. J. P. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2013
Research has shown that for acquiring problem-solving skills, instruction consisting of studying worked examples is more effective and efficient for novice learners than instruction consisting of problem-solving. This study investigated whether worked examples would also be a useful instructional format for the acquisition of visual perceptual…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Visual Perception, Diagnostic Tests, Heart Disorders
Schouten, Tony; Van Der Sanden, Johan – 1986
Two studies were conducted to determine how students perform psychomotor tasks and how teacher behavior influences performance. Study 1, conducted with about 100 technical students in a metal working class in a technical school in The Netherlands, showed that a process-based heuristic approach, stimulating students to perform complex psychomotor…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Classroom Techniques, Educational Needs, Electronics