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Exploring the relationship between students’ information problem solving patterns and epistemic beliefs: a mixed methods sequential analysis study
Information problem solving (IPS) is an important twenty-first century skill, but it is lacking at all age levels. One type of information problem, those of an ill-structured nature that require multiple itera...
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Assessing student learning in a guided inquiry-based maker learning environment: knowledge representation from the expertise development perspective
A qualitative study was conducted in a secondary school to evaluate student learning processes and outcomes by examining their inquiry questions, journals, and maker artifacts in a curriculum-based maker learn...
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Emotion matters for academic success
This paper is in response to the published article entitled “Success, failure and emotions: examining the relationship between performance feedback and emotions in diagnostic reasoning” (Jarrell, Harley, Lajoi...
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Metaconceptually-enhanced simulation-based inquiry: effects on eighth grade students’ conceptual change and science epistemic beliefs
This study investigated the effects of metaconceptually-enhanced, simulation-based inquiry learning on eighth grade students’ conceptual change in science and their development of science epistemic beliefs. Tw...
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The Development of a Self-regulation in a Collaborative Context Scale
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Towards innovation in complex problem solving research: an introduction to the special issue
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Validation study of a method for assessing complex ill-structured problem solving by using causal representations
The important but little understood problem that motivated this study was the lack of research on valid assessment methods to determine progress in higher-order learning in situations involving complex and ill...
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Investigating the influences of a LEAPS model on preservice teachers’ problem solving, metacognition, and motivation in an educational technology course
This paper discusses a qualitative study which examined students’ problem-solving, metacognition, and motivation in a learning environment designed for teaching educational technology to pre-service teachers. ...
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Self-processes and learning environment as influences in the development of expertise in instructional design
A major challenge for learning theories is to illuminate how particular kinds of learning experiences and environments promote the development of expertise. Research has been conducted into novice-expert diffe...
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Scaffolding students’ problem-solving processes in an ill-structured task using question prompts and peer interactions
This study examined the effects of question prompts and peer interactions in scaffolding undergraduate students’ problem-solving processes in an ill-structured task in problem representation, develo** soluti...