Novice students selecting their own tasks choose more examples than practice problems, with example selection decreasing as the learning phase progresses¶

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q2 i? Participants selected more examples (64.3%) than practice problems (35.7%) on average, and the proportion of selected examples depended on task order, decreasing as the learning phase progressed. → Milou van Harsel 2022

Evidence¶

Milou van Harsel 2022¶

Milou van Harsel, Vincent Hoogerheide, Eva Janssen, Peter Verkoeijen, Tamara van Gog. (2022). How do higher education students regulate their learning with video modeling examples, worked examples, and practice problems? Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-022-09589-2

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Descriptive analysis of the task selections of 147 technical higher education novices during a self-regulated learning phase in a computer-based environment, in which each participant selected six tasks from a database of 45 tasks. The article reports "participants selected more examples to study (64.3%) than practice problems to solve (35.7%)".

"On average, participants selected more examples to study (64.3%) than practice problems to solve (35.7%)."

Milou van Harsel 2022 (2)¶

Milou van Harsel, Vincent Hoogerheide, Eva Janssen, Peter Verkoeijen, Tamara van Gog. (2022). How do higher education students regulate their learning with video modeling examples, worked examples, and practice problems? Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-022-09589-2

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Chi-Squared Test on the order of the six selected tasks in the same sample showed the proportion of selected examples depended on task order (χ2(5) = 92.48, p < .001), which the authors read as students selecting fewer examples and more problems as the phase progressed.

"Chi-Squared Tests revealed that the proportion selected examples depends on the order of the tasks, χ 2 (5) = 92.48, p < .001."

Discussion¶

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