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Qian Huangfu; Qianmei He; Sisi Luo; Weilin Huang; Yahua Yang – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Video lectures which include the teachers' presence have become increasingly common. As teacher enthusiasm is a nonverbal cue in video lectures, more and more studies are focusing on this topic. However, little research has been carried out on the interactions between teacher enthusiasm and prior knowledge when learning from video…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Response
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Chatzopoulou, D. I.; Economides, A. A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2010
This paper presents Programming Adaptive Testing (PAT), a Web-based adaptive testing system for assessing students' programming knowledge. PAT was used in two high school programming classes by 73 students. The question bank of PAT is composed of 443 questions. A question is classified in one out of three difficulty levels. In PAT, the levels of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Prior Learning, Programming, High School Students
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Starbek, P.; Erjavec, M. Starcic; Peklaj, C. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2010
The main goal of this study was to explore whether the use of multimedia in genetics instruction contributes more to students' knowledge and comprehension than other instructional modes. We were also concerned with the influence of different instructional modes on the retention of knowledge and comprehension. In a quasi-experimental design, four…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Quasiexperimental Design, Prior Learning, Genetics
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Gurlitt, J.; Renkl, A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2008
We investigated whether and how prior knowledge activation improves learning outcomes for high school (less experienced learners) and university students (experienced learners) in a hypertext environment. Map coherence was defined as the extent to which relationships between the concepts in the map were made explicit. Therefore, we classified the…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Students, Concept Mapping, Learning Strategies