Instruction often spans multiple phases (e.g., phases of discovery learning, instructional explanations, practice) with different learning goals and different pedagogies. For any combination of multiple phases, we use the term composite instructional design (CID). To understand the mechanisms underlying…
Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2025-12
Background In example‐based learning, examples are often combined with generative activities, such as comparative self‐explanations of example cases. Comparisons induce heavy demands on working memory, especially in complex domains. Hence, only stronger learners may benefit from comparative self‐explanations.…
Self-explanation prompts in example-based learning are usually directed backwards: Learners are required to self-explain problem-solving steps just presented ( retrospective prompts). However, it might also help to self-explain upcoming steps ( anticipatory prompts). The effects of the prompt type may…
Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2023-11-16
Background Students often show unfavourable attribution: they attribute poor school performance to stable factors such as lack of ability and good school performance to variable factors such as effort. However, attribution can be influenced by individualized digital re‐attributional feedback leading…
In dieser quasi-experimentellen Feldstudie untersuchten wir die Auswirkungen eines digitalen Unterstützungstools auf das Wissen über selbstreguliertes Lernen (SRL), das Diagnostizieren von SRL und Feedback zu SRL. Lehramtsstudierende ( N = 119) übernahmen die Rolle der Lernenden und Lehrenden. Als Lernende…
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2023-10-11
A worked-out or an open inventing problem with contrasting cases can prepare learners for learning from subsequent instruction differently regarding motivation and cognition. In addition, such activities potentially initiate different learning processes during the subsequent (“future”) learning phase.…
Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2022-03-16