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Valdez, Alfred – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
This study investigated how a goal intervention influences the learning effects gained from feedback when acquiring concepts and rules pertaining to the topic of descriptive statistics. Three feedback conditions; knowledge of correct response feedback (KCRF), principle-based feedback (PBF), and no-feedback (NF), were crossed with two goal…
Descriptors: Intervention, Objectives, Feedback (Response), Computer Uses in Education
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Dwyer, Christopher P.; Hogan, Michael J.; Harney, Owen M.; O'Reilly, John – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2014
Critical thinking (CT) is a metacognitive process, consisting of a number of sub-skills and dispositions, that, when used appropriately, increases the chances of producing a logical solution to a problem or a valid conclusion to an argument. CT has been identified as a fundamental learning objective of third-level education; however, students…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Case Studies, Metacognition, Thinking Skills
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Jere-Folotiya, Jacqueline; Chansa-Kabali, Tamara; Munachaka, Jonathan C.; Sampa, Francis; Yalukanda, Christopher; Westerholm, Jari; Richardson, Ulla; Serpell, Robert; Lyytinen, Heikki – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2014
This intervention study was conducted to document conditions under which a computer based literacy game (GraphoGame™) could enhance literacy skills of first grade students in an African city. The participants were first grade students from Government schools (N = 573). These students were randomly sampled into control (N = 314) and various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Control Groups