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The return of behaviourist epistemology: A review of learning outcomes studies
<p>Learning outcomes as a concept has encountered a revival since the beginning of the Bologna process in 1999. The concept itself has a longer history with its roots in the behaviourist tradition of the 1960s. The goal ...
Understanding students’ game experiences throughout the developmental process of the Number Navigation Game
<p>Serious games for learning have received increased attention in recent years. However, empirical studies on students’ gaming experiences throughout the developmental process of serious games and discussions regarding ...
Predicting adaptive expertise with rational number arithmetic
<p><strong>Background.</strong> Adaptive expertise is a highly valued outcome of mathematics curricula. One aspect of adaptive expertise with rational numbers is adaptive rational number knowledge, which refers to the ...
Retention of University Teachers and Doctoral Students in UNIPS Pedagogical Online Courses
<p>Online education provides learning opportunities to a global audience. Most popular MOOC platforms have millions of users and MOOC designers are already competing with each other on how to spark and retain the interest of students. However, currently in popular MOOCs, roughly 90% of enrolled students yield their participation and previous research has identified that the dropouts occur mostly in the very early stages of the courses. This study explores student retention and engagement in pedagogical online courses aimed for university staff members and doctoral students, with quantitative data (N = 404) collected between the years 2016–2019. In addition, this study looks at differences in dropout rates between students of different age, gender, teaching position and department. Based on the conducted statistical analysis, age, gender, teaching position or department have no significant correlation with dropout rates. The majority of participants who drop out from the courses do so in the beginning without completing a single task. University teachers and doctoral students behave in online courses similarly as other students, and the results of the current study fits well with predictions from previous studies. However, this study found two anomalies: (1) A relatively low dropout rate (38,1%) and (2) Over 22% of students yielding their participation return to the courses (n = 31) after which over 50% of them complete the courses. The results highlight the importance of the beginning of online courses for reducing the overall dropout rates and suggest that students yielding their participation are likely to complete the courses the second time, if they enroll again.</p><div><h2>Keywords</h2>Staff development Online learning University pedagogy Student retention Engagement </div>...
Adaptive number knowledge and its relation to arithmetic and pre-algebra knowledge
<p>Traditionally measured skills with arithmetic are not related to later
algebra success at levels that would be expected given the close
conceptual relation between arithmetic and algebra. However, adaptivity
with ...
The Number Navigation Game: An Overview of an Iterative Development Process
The present chapter provides an overview of the iterative development and testing of the Number Navigation Game (NNG), a game-based learning environment which aims to strengthen primary school students' flexibility and ...
Designing a game-based environment for enhancing rational number knowledge
<p> <span>Rational number knowledge is an important factor in students’ mathematical development. However, many students face difficulties with rational number concepts. This study describes a new educational game, ...
Learning to see like an expert: On the practices of professional vision and visual expertise
Goodwin's notion of professional vision suggests that learning to see in professionally relevant ways includes appropriating the visual practices within a domain. This observational study aimed to analyze how experts ...