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An Experimental Test of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect Using an Immersive Virtual Reality Classroom
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Direct linkLisa Hasenbein; Ulrich Trautwein; Jens-Uwe Hahn; Stephan Soller; Richard Göllner – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Academic self-concept plays a central role in successful learning and is substantially shaped by social comparisons. Research on the so-called Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect (BFLPE) has yielded a highly robust and generalizable pattern of negative effects of higher class/school average achievement on students' self-concept when controlling for…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Academic Achievement, Grade 6, Student Behavior
Download full textLi, Haiying; Gobert, Janice; Dickler, Rachel – Grantee Submission, 2019
Prior studies on scaffolding for investigative inquiry practices (i.e. forming a question/hypothesis, collecting data, and analyzing and interpreting data [21]) revealed that students who received scaffolding were better able to both learn practices and transfer these competencies to new topics than were students who did not receive scaffolding.…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Questioning Techniques, Performance Factors, Active Learning
Nourse, David – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Recent estimates show nearly 90% of school districts nationwide offer some form of online credit recovery. Additionally, credit recovery services have become one of the fastest growing areas of educational software. Despite the widespread adoption of these programs, there is a lack of scholarly research on the effectiveness, rigor, and suitability…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Repetition, Required Courses, Academic Achievement
Waddell, Sherrill – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2017
The trend and demand for virtual education has grown nationwide. With an increase in students choosing this type of education, inevitably the demand for schools of this type of educational instruction has increased in number. The purpose of this study is to determine the extent of the relationship between virtual school size and student…
Descriptors: Correlation, Virtual Classrooms, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Sherrill Waddell – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between virtual school size and student achievement in virtual schools in a southwestern state. Enrollment size and the following areas were studied in an attempt to determine student achievement: STAAR English Language Arts/Reading, STAAR Math, STAAR Science, and STAAR Social Studies…
Descriptors: Correlation, Virtual Classrooms, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
