Investigating prompts for supporting students' self-regulation – A remaining challenge for learning analytics approaches?

To perform successfully in higher education learners are considered to engage in self-regulation. Prompts in digital learning environments aim at activating self-regulation strategies that learners know but do not spontaneously show. To investigate such interventions learning analytics approaches ca...

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Main Authors: Schumacher, C., Ifenthaler, Dirk
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2021
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86967
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description To perform successfully in higher education learners are considered to engage in self-regulation. Prompts in digital learning environments aim at activating self-regulation strategies that learners know but do not spontaneously show. To investigate such interventions learning analytics approaches can be applied. This quasi-experimental study (N = 110) investigates whether different prompts based on theory of self-regulated learning (e.g., cognitive, metacognitive, motivational) impact declarative knowledge and transfer, perceptions as well as online learning behavior, and whether trace data can inform learning performance. Findings indicate small effects of prompts supporting the performance in a declarative knowledge and transfer test. In addition, the prompted groups showed different online learning behavior than the control group. However, trace data in this study were not capable of sufficiently explaining learning performance in a transfer test. Future research is required to investigate adaptive prompts using trace data in authentic learning settings as well as focusing on learners' reactions to distinct prompts.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-869672022-01-07T01:49:38Z Investigating prompts for supporting students' self-regulation – A remaining challenge for learning analytics approaches? Schumacher, C. Ifenthaler, Dirk To perform successfully in higher education learners are considered to engage in self-regulation. Prompts in digital learning environments aim at activating self-regulation strategies that learners know but do not spontaneously show. To investigate such interventions learning analytics approaches can be applied. This quasi-experimental study (N = 110) investigates whether different prompts based on theory of self-regulated learning (e.g., cognitive, metacognitive, motivational) impact declarative knowledge and transfer, perceptions as well as online learning behavior, and whether trace data can inform learning performance. Findings indicate small effects of prompts supporting the performance in a declarative knowledge and transfer test. In addition, the prompted groups showed different online learning behavior than the control group. However, trace data in this study were not capable of sufficiently explaining learning performance in a transfer test. Future research is required to investigate adaptive prompts using trace data in authentic learning settings as well as focusing on learners' reactions to distinct prompts. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86967 10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100791 restricted
spellingShingle Schumacher, C.
Ifenthaler, Dirk
Investigating prompts for supporting students' self-regulation – A remaining challenge for learning analytics approaches?
title Investigating prompts for supporting students' self-regulation – A remaining challenge for learning analytics approaches?
title_full Investigating prompts for supporting students' self-regulation – A remaining challenge for learning analytics approaches?
title_fullStr Investigating prompts for supporting students' self-regulation – A remaining challenge for learning analytics approaches?
title_full_unstemmed Investigating prompts for supporting students' self-regulation – A remaining challenge for learning analytics approaches?
title_short Investigating prompts for supporting students' self-regulation – A remaining challenge for learning analytics approaches?
title_sort investigating prompts for supporting students' self-regulation – a remaining challenge for learning analytics approaches?
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86967