Effects of a modelling example for teaching information problem solving skills.
Although students often appear to be skilled in retrieving and making use of information from the internet, research shows that their information problem solving skills are overestimated. They show deficiencies in many of the necessary skills, such as generation of search terms, selection of sources...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 34; no. 6; pp. 688 - 701 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=132914535&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 132914535 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 02664909 6M1 jtl: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning issn: 02664909 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec2018 vid: 34 iid: 6 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 132914535 132914535 132914535 10.1111/jcal.12276 132914535 ppf: 688 ppct: 13 formats: tig: atl: Effects of a modelling example for teaching information problem solving skills. aug: au: Frerejean, J. Strien, J.L.H. Kirschner, P.A. Brand‐Gruwel, S. affil: Welten Institute, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands sug: subj: Problem Solving Education Learning Methods Problem Solving Evaluation Internet Teaching Methods Human Students, College Computer-Assisted Instruction Male Female Adolescence Adult Pretest-Posttest Design Questionnaires Analysis of Covariance Cognition Role Playing Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Male Female ab: Although students often appear to be skilled in retrieving and making use of information from the internet, research shows that their information problem solving skills are overestimated. They show deficiencies in many of the necessary skills, such as generation of search terms, selection of sources, and critical processing of information. It is therefore necessary to design and develop effective instruction to foster information problem solving skills. Research shows that learning from examples can be an effective approach for teaching complex cognitive skills in ill‐structured domains, such as writing or communicating. To explore whether this also holds for information problem solving, this study investigates the effects of presenting a modelling example in an online information problem solving training. Results of two experiments show that viewing a modelling example, presented as a screencast of an expert thinking out loud and interspersed with cognitive prompts, leads to a higher posttest performance than performing a practice task. The effect persisted on a delayed posttest 1 week later. The results imply that information problem solving instruction in an online setting can benefit from employing video‐based modelling examples. Lay Description: What is currently known?: Example‐based learning is effective for initial skill acquisition.Information problem solving (IPS) is a complex cognitive skill often underdeveloped.No research was found investigating effects of example‐based learning on IPS. What this paper adds?: Two experiments investigate effects of a video‐based modelling example on IPS performance.The modelling example was compared with a practice task in a short online training.Results show a modelling example leads to higher IPS performance than the practice task. What are implications for practitioners?: Findings corroborate the effectiveness of example‐based learning on an ill‐structured domain, specifically IPS.Teachers and researchers should consider using modelling examples in IPS instruction. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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