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Francesco C. Ugolini; Panagiotis Kakavas – Research on Education and Media, 2024
This study consists of a 17-year (2006-2021) systematic literature review on the effective instructional strategies for developing Computational Thinking (CT) in primary school students (K-5). The aim of this paper is to identify instructional strategies that have been implemented and evaluated by means of a pre- and post-test, with the aim of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
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Ragazou, Vasiliki; Karasavvidis, Ilias – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2021
Video tutorials substantially support demonstration-based training where the main goal is to enhance procedural knowledge by observing various understandable examples of performing a task. Although video tutorials are broadly popular nowadays, little attention is given to the design features of an instructional tutorial. The aim of this study is…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Video Technology, Educational Technology, Cues
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Hayashi, Yugo; Takeuchi, Yugo – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
This study investigated the factors underlying the estimation of learner self-confidence during explanations with a conversational agent in an online explanation task. Based on reviews of previous studies, we focused on how factors such as the learner's task activities and personal characteristics can be predictors. To examine these points, we…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Task Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Individual Characteristics
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Gurlitt, Johannes; Renkl, Alexander – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
Two experiments investigated the effects of characteristic features of concept mapping used for prior knowledge activation. Characteristic demands of concept mapping include connecting lines representing the relationships between concepts and labeling these lines, specifying the type of the semantic relationships. In the first experiment,…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Self Efficacy, Semantics, Protocol Analysis
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Wells, Gregory D.; Esopenko, Carrie – Educational Gerontology, 2008
The relative importance of mental effort, as indicated by strategy use, and persistence as potential mediators of the memory self-efficacy (MSE)/memory performance relationship was investigated within a sample of 26 adults aged 65 years and older. It was found that persistence but not strategy use was predictive of performance on a free-recall…
Descriptors: Intervention, Self Efficacy, Persistence, Memory
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Sins, Patrick H. M.; van Joolingen, Wouter R.; Savelsbergh, Elwin R.; van Hout-Wolters, Bernadette – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
Purpose of the present study was to test a conceptual model of relations among achievement goal orientation, self-efficacy, cognitive processing, and achievement of students working within a particular collaborative task context. The task involved a collaborative computer-based modeling task. In order to test the model, group measures of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Computers, Student Motivation