TY - GEN
T1 - Improving students' scientific reasoning skills via virtual experiments and worked examples
AU - Liu, Shiyu
AU - Varma, Keisha
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This work looks at how to improve students' scientific reasoning. The findings suggest that neither worked examples alone nor interactive visualization experiences alone are as helpful as the combination. While worked examples are effective instructional devices to assist learning, due to students' limited self-explanation skills, virtual experiments are needed to elicit more metacognitive efforts when studying the examples. At the same time, worked examples provide direct guidance that can prevent potential frustration with the visualization.
AB - This work looks at how to improve students' scientific reasoning. The findings suggest that neither worked examples alone nor interactive visualization experiences alone are as helpful as the combination. While worked examples are effective instructional devices to assist learning, due to students' limited self-explanation skills, virtual experiments are needed to elicit more metacognitive efforts when studying the examples. At the same time, worked examples provide direct guidance that can prevent potential frustration with the visualization.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84878698840
SN - 9780578107042
T3 - 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Future of Learning, ICLS 2012 - Proceedings
SP - 483
EP - 484
BT - 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences
T2 - 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Future of Learning, ICLS 2012
Y2 - 2 July 2012 through 6 July 2012
ER -