Using a distributed systems laboratory to facilitate students' cognitive, metacognitive and critical thinking strategy use.
Background: Recent research in online settings reports that supporting self‐regulated learning (SRL) strategy use could lead to greater online academic success. A growing number of studies have started to investigate SRL supports in online environments recently, which indicates a great interest in t...
| Published in: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 209 - 223 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=154497194&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 154497194 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 02664909 6M1 jtl: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning issn: 02664909 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Feb2022 vid: 38 iid: 1 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 154497194 152029766 154497194 154497194 10.1111/jcal.12605 154497194 ppf: 209 ppct: 14 formats: tig: atl: Using a distributed systems laboratory to facilitate students' cognitive, metacognitive and critical thinking strategy use. aug: au: Marquès Puig, Joan Manuel Daradoumis, Thanasis Arguedas, Marta Calvet Liñan, Laura affil: Department of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain sug: subj: Online Education Utilization Learning Methods Students, College Student Assignments Cognition Critical Thinking Student Experiences Human Experimental Studies Questionnaires Male Female Adult Middle Age Descriptive Statistics Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Male Female ab: Background: Recent research in online settings reports that supporting self‐regulated learning (SRL) strategy use could lead to greater online academic success. A growing number of studies have started to investigate SRL supports in online environments recently, which indicates a great interest in this matter. Though several systems for automatic assessment of programming have been developed, there is hardly any study that has investigated how an automated assessment tool for distributed programming could facilitate students' SRL strategies. Objectives: This study examined the ways our online Distributed Systems Laboratory (DSLab) tried to enhance students' SRL strategies in an authentic long‐term online educational experience. Methods: We applied an experimental research design, involving 111 university students who performed a programming assignment using DSLab. A customized questionnaire was used to collect data from all students. Results and Conclusions: The statistical analyses revealed that DSLab tool managed to facilitate students' cognitive and meta‐cognitive strategy use to a certain extent and critical thinking strategy use to a fairly large extent. Implications: Though more experimental results are needed to delve more deeply into these findings, this study provides relevant implications for online distributed (or general) programming course teachers who seek to increase students' SRL strategies in this field. Lay Description: What is currently known about the this topic: Facilitating students SRL in programming learning and assessment was hardly studied.A variety of studies have started to investigate SRL supports in online environments.Employing SRL and metacognitive strategies leads to good programming skills.Critical thinking strategies correlate positively with academic outcomes. What this paper adds: It examines how to enhance SRL through Distributed Systems Laboratory (DSLab).DSLab facilitates students' cognitive and metacognitive strategies to a certain extent.DSLab encourages critical thinking strategy use to a fairly large extent. Implications for practitioners: DSLab is a valuable support to teachers and students in complex programming tasks.Our study guides programming course teachers who seek to increase students' SRL.Automated assessment tools designers are given useful insights for better design. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: algorithm pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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