Triple scheme of learning support design for scientific discovery learning based on computer simulation: experimental research.

Learning support studies involving simulation-based scientific discovery learning have tended to adopt an ad hoc strategies-oriented approach in which the support strategies are typically pre-specified according to learners' difficulties in particular activities. This article proposes a more integra...

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Publicado en:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 269 - 283
Autores principales: Zhang J, Chen Q, Sun Y, Reid DJ
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Aug2004
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          Chen Q
          Sun Y
          Reid DJ
        affil: Educational Technology Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; zhangjw@tsinghua.edu.cn
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          Computer-Assisted Instruction
          Learning Environment
          Learning Methods
          Adolescence
          Descriptive Statistics
          Experimental Studies
          Intelligence Tests
          Multivariate Analysis of Variance
          Pretest-Posttest Design
          Simulations
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          Adolescent: 13-18 years
      ab: Learning support studies involving simulation-based scientific discovery learning have tended to adopt an ad hoc strategies-oriented approach in which the support strategies are typically pre-specified according to learners' difficulties in particular activities. This article proposes a more integrated approach, a triple scheme for learning support design on the basis of the systematic analysis of the internal conditions of scientific discovery learning. The triple learning support scheme involves: (a) interpretative support that helps learners with knowledge access and the generation of meaningful and integrative understandings; (b) experimental support that scaffolds learners in systematic and valid experimental activities; and (c) reflective support that increases learners' self-awareness of the discovery processes and prompts their reflective abstraction and integration. Two experiments were conducted with eighth graders (13-year-olds) to examine the effects of these learning supports embedded into a simulation program on floating and sinking. The overall results support the main hypotheses that learning supports in a simulation environment should be directed towards the three perspectives to invite meaningful, systematic, and reflective discovery learning.
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