Analysis of cognitive learning strategies and computer attitudes, according to college students’ gender and locus of control

Supporting learning of variable control

Supporting learning of variable control in a computer-based biology environment: Effects of prompting college students to reflect on their own thinking

✍ Xiaodong Lin; James D. Lehman 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 99 KB 👁 2 views

While instruction on control of variables has been shown to be effective, especially when it encourages students to focus explicitly on rules or procedures, little evidence of application to novel problems has been obtained. We hypothesized that prompting students to understand their own learning pr