Adapting the delivery of learning materials to student preferences: Two studies with a course model based on ‘cases’     

Renate Limbach  Hilda G. Weges  Martin M.A. Valcke 《Distance Education》1997,18(1):24-43

Current printed courses of the Open universiteit (Ou) have been designed according to a variety of course models; for example the ‘learning unit model’ or the ‘textbook‐workbook model’ (van den Boom & Schlusmans 1991). Considering the potential of the ILCE approach (Valcke & Martens, this issue), one can imagine new and innovative course models that build on the interactivity and flexibility possibilities of such an environment An essential feature of the ILCE approach is that developers can consider student differences when designing and producing learning materials.

In this article we will explore the problem of adapting the delivery of learning materials to student characteristics in relation to a course based on ‘cases’ in the law domain. Two different study modes are researched: a study mode that starts with the theory and next moves to practical work with the cases versus a study mode that starts with the practical work and next moves to the theoretical base.

Two studies are presented. Within the exploratory study, the research questions focus on the potential interrelations between student characteristics and the preference/choice for one of the two study modes. From the results can be concluded that almost all students from the Open universiteit prefer a theory‐based study mode, because they have a relatively large amount of experience with this study mode and because they find it a successful study mode.

In the second study, an experimental design is adopted with students studying in one of four different conditions: two study modes of printed learning materials and two study modes of interactive learning materials. In contrast with the exploratory study students clearly indicate a more diverse preference for certain study modes. Students also differ in their preference for the delivery mode. However the more traditional study and delivery mode (theory‐based and printed learning material) remains more popular. Again this might again be due to the greater experience students have with this approach. Only two student characteristics are significantly related to opting for the practice‐based study mode: the experience level with a study mode and one's prior knowledge with the subject matter. Comparable results were detected regarding the preferred delivery mode: students with little prior knowledge more readily prefer a printed book, probably because they have a better overview.  相似文献   

Secondary-school students' motivation for portfolio reflection     

H.L. De Bruin  A.E. Oosterbaan  F.J. Prins 《Irish Educational Studies》2013,32(4):415-431

Several studies concluded that deep reflection is infrequently reached in student portfolios. An explanation for these disappointing conclusions might be that motivation for portfolio reflection determines the quality of reflection. This study aimed to examine the relationship between motivation for using digital portfolios and reflection. Participants were 156 eleventh-grade students in secondary education, whose motivation for composing a digital portfolio was measured by the motivation part of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire. Portfolios of 37 of the 156 students were examined in terms of the amount and nature of reflection by means of a coding scheme based on Mezirow's model of transformative learning. On average, one-fifth (19.5%) of the paragraphs in a portfolio contained reflection, and paragraphs with deep reflection were hardly found (0.8%). It was concluded that motivation for composing a portfolio was fair, but not related to the amount and nature of reflection. This exploratory study gives rise to further research into factors that might influence the quality of portfolio reflection.  相似文献   

University Councils: An Institutional Innovation in German Universities     

Renate Mayntz 《European Journal of Education》2002,37(1):21-28

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Book reviews     

Pierre Furter  Vanilda Paiva  Udo Bude  Marcela Gajardo  Edwin Keiner  Antoine Gennaoui  Traian Vraşmaş  Vivian L. Gadsden  Renate Nestvogel 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1992,38(5):553-572

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The Design of Competency-Based Performance Assessment in E-Learning     

Dominique M. A. Sluijsmans  Frans J. Prins  Rob L. Martens 《Learning Environments Research》2006,9(1):45-66

This article focuses on the design of competency-based performance assessment in e-learning. Though effort has been invested in designing powerful e-learning environments, relatively little attention has been paid to the design of valid and reliable assessments in such environments, leaving many questions to educational developers and teachers. As a solution to this problem, a systematic approach to designing performance assessments in e-learning contexts is presented, partly based on the 4C/ID model. This model enables the construction of realistic whole tasks instead of advocating education that is restricted to more isolated skills. A new assessment procedure also implies an alternative view of instructional design, learning and assessment. The requirements for the learning environment are addressed. Examples from a virtual seminar are presented to illustrate the design approach. The article concludes with the identification of possible pitfalls related to the approach and gives directions for future research.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Renate Nestvogel  Harold J. Noah  Sixten Marklund  Richard Noonan  John Nisbet  Desmond J. Keegan  Jeremy Greenland  Robert G. Thomas  Douglas Thom  Mina J. Moore-Rinvolucri  Wolfgang Tietze  A. Harry Passow  Michael A. White  D. S. Anderson  Philip G. Altbach  R. Gardner  Bogdan Suchodolski  Malcolm Rosier  Ronald H. Wilson  David H. Partington 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1983,29(4):493-521

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Frauen,Bildung und Entwicklung     

Renate Nestvogel 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1987,33(4):467-484

Zusammenfassung Die Verfasserin stellt Ansätze eines entwicklungsorientierten Konzeptes für Frauenbildung in Industrieländern vor. Elemente dieses Konzeptes sind: (1) Denken und Handeln in weltgesellschaftlichen Zusammenhängen, (2) die lokale/regionale Verankerung von Bildung, (3) die Förderung eines interkulturellen Blickwinkels und (4) der Abbau von Unterdrückung reproduzierenden Machtstrukturen. Ihren Ausführungen liegen u.a. folgende Thesen zugrunde: Die Entwicklung der Industrieländer hat katastrophale weltweite Auswirkungen, die es notwendig machen, daß auch Frauen ihre Rolle in diesem Zerstörungsprozeß überdenken. Denn sie sind Teil des Systems und tragen, ihrer geschlechtsspezifischen Sozialisation entsprechend, zur Reproduktion derzeitiger Verhältnisse bei. In dem Anliegen, die blinden Flecken im Selbstverständnis von Frauen zu erhellen, werden Bezüge zwischen Umwelt- und Innenweltzerstörung, Opfer und Täter sowie Rassimus und Sexismus hergestellt. Des weiteren wird die Rolle von europäischen Frauen im Kolonialismus, der derzeitige Umgang europäischer Frauen mit Frauen aus fremden Kulturen und schließlich die Ausübung von Macht und Gewalt in Familie und Gesellschaft thematisiert.

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The author presents first steps towards a development-based concept of women's education in the industrialized countries. Some elements of this concept are: (1) planning and action in a global context, (2) the local or regional bias given to education, (3) promotion of an intercultural perspective, (4) reducing the power of structures that encourage oppression. The author's observations are based on the following propositions: the development process in the industrialized countries has had terrible effects all over the world and it is necessary that women also consider their roles in what the author considers to be a process of destruction. This is because women are part of the overall system and contribute to its perpetuation in the measure of their own socialization. Connections are established between the destruction of the environment and the individual, as also between the victims and assailants of racism and sexism with a view to clarifying unidentified parts of the female consciousness. Beyond this, the role of European women in the context of colonialism and the present contact between European women and their counterparts from other cultures are examined with particular attention being paid to the exercise of power and force in the family and society.

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Résumé L'auteur présente tout d'abord les étapes menant vers un concept d'éducation des femmes basé sur le développement dans les pays industrialisés. Quelquesuns des éléments de ce concept sont: (1) la planification et l'action dans un contexte global, (2) la direction locale ou régionale donnée à l'éducation, (3) la promotion d'une perspective interculturelle, (4) la réducation ou pouvoir des structures qui encouragent l'oppression. Les observations de l'auteur se basent sur les propositions suivantes: le processus de développement des pays industrialisés a eu des effets négatifs dans le monde entier et il est nécessaire que les femmes également analysent leurs rôles dans ce que l'auteur appelle un processus de destruction, car les femmes font partie du système global et contribuent à sa perpétuation dans la mesure de leur propre socialisation. Des rapports sont établis entre la destruction de l'environnement et l'individu, comme entre les victimes et les assaillants du racisme et du sexisme en vue de faire la lumière sur les domaines non-identifiés de la conscience de la femme. L'auteur examine ensuite le rôle des femmes européennes dans le contexte du colonialisme et le contact qui existe actuellement entre elles et leurs homologues des autres cultures, une attention particulière est accordée ici à l'exercice du pouvoir et de la force au sein de la famille et de la société.

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Linguistic and cultural factors in the readability of mathematics texts: the Whorfian hypothesis revisited with evidence from the South African context     

Elise Prins  Jan Ulijn 《Journal of Research in Reading》1998,21(2):139-159

South Africa is a country of many languages and cultures. Education is mostly in English which implies that about 80% of all secondary school students are second language learners. Currently many mathematical problems are posed in real-life contexts. This not only introduces more language in mathematics texts, but also more issues related to culture. When considering the influence on readability, it is difficult to disentangle the role of linguistic and cultural factors and this in turn seems to be a manifestation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. The study was therefore guided by research questions such as: what linguistic and cultural factors in the ordinary language of mathematics texts influence readability? Protocol analysis was used with students aged 17–18 years to establish readability problems. Linguistic as well as cultural factors were identified and the hypothesis that improved readability of mathematics assignments improves achievement was confirmed in a number of cases. Writers of mathematics texts should therefore consider linguistic as well as cultural factors when writing for different reading audiences. Other conclusions address teaching and examination practice.  相似文献   

Effects of conceptual knowledge and availability of information sources on law students’ legal reasoning     

Fleurie Nievelstein  Tamara van Gog  Henny P. A. Boshuizen  Frans J. Prins 《Instructional Science》2010,38(1):23-35

Due to the complexity of the legal domain, reasoning about law cases is a very complex skill. For novices in law school, legal reasoning is even more complex because they have not yet acquired the conceptual knowledge needed for distilling the relevant information from cases, determining applicable rules, and searching for rules and exceptions in external information sources such as lawbooks. This study investigated the role of conceptual knowledge in solving legal cases when no information sources can be used. Under such ‘unsupported’ circumstances, novice and advanced students performed less well than domain experts, but even experts’ performance was rather low. The second question addressed was whether novices even benefit from the availability of information sources (i.e., lawbook), because conceptual knowledge is prerequisite for effective use of such sources. Indeed availability of the lawbook positively affected performance only for advanced students but not for novice students. Implications for learning and instruction in the domain of law are discussed.  相似文献   

A coaches’ perspective on the contribution of anthropometry,physical performance,and motor coordination in racquet sports     

Kamasha Robertson  Johan Pion  Mireille Mostaert  Mohd Rozilee Wazir Norjali Wazir  Tamara Kramer  Irene Renate Faber 《Journal of sports sciences》2018,36(23):2706-2715

ABSTRACT

Differences and similarities between table tennis and other racquet sports exist, but are not well documented in the literature, in spite of the relevance for talent identification. In this study we aimed at identifying the key characteristics of table tennis in comparison with tennis and badminton based upon a survey in coaches. A total of 177 licensed coaches from all across the world and with diverse professional backgrounds completed a survey on anthropometric measures, physical performance, and motor coordination skills. On a scale from 1 to 10, coaches indicated to what extent a talent characteristic was important for their sport. MANOVA identified key differences as well as similarities between all three racquet sports and a subsequent discriminant analysis allocated coaches correctly for table tennis, tennis, and badminton 81.01%, 55.6%, and 71.4% respectively. Our results show that table tennis and other racquet sport coaches are well aware of differences between the racquet sports and also the importance and value of testing and assortment of skill components. These findings can assist coaches in future talent orientation and transfer in racquet sports.  相似文献