TY - JOUR A1 - Schünemann, Nina A1 - Spörer, Nadine A1 - Voellinger, Vanessa A. A1 - Brunstein, Joachim Clemens T1 - Peer feedback mediates the impact of self-regulation procedures on strategy use and reading comprehension in reciprocal teaching groups JF - Instructional Science N2 - The goal of this research was to highlight the role social regulatory processes play in making students’ teamwork in reciprocal teaching (RT) groups (a classroom activity in which students take the teacher’s role in small group reading sessions) effective. In addition to teamwork quality, we expected peer feedback to be a key factor in enhancing students’ reading comprehension achievements. Because previous research (Schünemann et al. in Contemp Educ Psychol 38:289–305, 2013) has shown that procedures of self-regulated learning (SRL) augment the effects of RT methods, we further assumed that such procedures would promote the quality of students’ collaborative efforts. In a cluster-randomized trial, students in 12 fifth-grade classes practiced a strategic approach to reading either in a RT condition or in a RT + SRL condition. In one of the 14 sessions, students’ interactive behavior was videotaped. Strategy use and reading comprehension were assessed at pretest, posttest, and maintenance. Performance differences between conditions were reliable only at maintenance. A multilevel mediation analysis showed that relative to RT students, RT + SRL students were better able to provide their teammates with informative feedback and organize their group work in a task-focused manner. Only feedback quality mediated the sustainability of treatment effects on strategy use and reading comprehension. In essence, this research suggests that effective reading comprehension trainings should integrate explicit instruction and practice in reading strategies, SRL, and focus on supportive peer processes in small groups with extensive instruction and practice in peer feedback. KW - Reading comprehension KW - Self-regulated learning KW - Co-regulation KW - Reading strategies KW - Feedback Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-017-9409-1 SN - 0020-4277 SN - 1573-1952 VL - 45 SP - 395 EP - 415 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schünemann, Nina A1 - Spörer, Nadine A1 - Brunstein, Joachim Clemens T1 - Integrating self-regulation in whole-class reciprocal teaching - a moderator-mediator analysis of incremental effects on fifth graders' reading comprehension JF - Contemporary educational psychology N2 - In this classroom intervention study, reciprocal teaching (RI) of reading strategies was combined with explicit instruction in self-regulated learning (SRL) to promote the reading comprehension of fifth-grade students (N = 306). Twelve intact classes were randomly assigned either to an RT + SRL condition or to an RI condition without explicit instruction in self-regulation. Three additional classes served as a no-treatment comparison group. Strategies instruction was delivered by trained assistants in conventional German language lessons. Students practiced the application of these strategies in small groups. Both at posttest and at maintenance (8 weeks after the intervention), students in the two intervention conditions (RT and RI + SRL) outperformed comparison students in measures of reading comprehension, strategy-related task performance, and self-efficacy for reading. Relative to RI students, students in the RI + SRL condition were better able to maintain training-induced performance gains over the follow-up interval. A moderated mediation analysis revealed that this difference in the sustainability of the two treatments was (a) mediated by the successful mastery of the learned strategies and (b) most evident among students with poor reading fluency skills. KW - Reciprocal teaching KW - Reading comprehension KW - Self-regulated learning KW - Reading fluency KW - Reading strategies Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2013.06.002 SN - 0361-476X SN - 1090-2384 VL - 38 IS - 4 SP - 289 EP - 305 PB - Elsevier CY - San Diego ER - TY - THES A1 - Ehmann, Tanja T1 - Erfassung und Förderung metakognitiver und motivationaler Fähigkeiten : ein halbstandardisiertes Lerntagebuch für Schülerinnen und Schüler mit Migrationshintergrund T1 - Assessing and fostering metacognitive and motivational skills : a semi-standardized learning diary for students with a migrational background N2 - Das folgende Forschungsprojekt beschäftigt sich mit metakognitiven und motivationalen Fähigkeiten als Teilbereiche des selbstgesteuerten Lernens. Es untersucht den Nutzen und die Grenzen von Lerntagebüchern, die zugeschnitten wurden auf Grundschülerinnen und Grundschüler mit Migrationshintergrund. Das Ziel der Studie war es herauszufinden, ob und wie selbststeurungsbezogene Lernprozesse durch den Einsatz von Lerntagebüchern gemessen und verändert werden können. Hierzu führten 28 Grundschülerinnen und Grundschüler 14 Wochen lang während des Unterrichts ein halbstandardisiertes Lerntagebuch in Anlehnung an Wohland/Spinath (2004). Zur Messung von Veränderungen in metakognitiven und motivationalen Fähigkeiten füllten 43 Schülerinnen und Schüler zweier Experimentalgruppen und einer Kontrollgruppe vor und nach der Lerntagebuch-Intervention standardisierte Fragebögen aus. Weiterhin wurden die 28 Lerntagebücher der Experimentalgruppen inhalts- und prozessanalytisch ausgewertet. Außerdem wurden Interviews mit den Lehrkräften über ihre Unterrichtspraxis geführt und einige Schülerinnen und Schüler zu ihrer Wahrnehmung der Lerntagebucharbeit befragt. Die Ergebnisse der Analyse der Lerntagebuchdaten zeigen, dass die 28 Schülerinnen und Schüler mit Migrationshintergrund erfolgreich ihren Lernprozess bei der Bearbeitung einer Aufgabe verbalisierten. Sie haben weiterhin erfolgreich Vorhersagen über ihre Vorgehensweisen zur Lösung einer Aufgabe getroffen. Die Lerntagebücher unterstützten sie darin, ihre metakognitiven Erfahrungen (Efklides/Petkaki 2005) zu kalibrieren (Desoete/Roeyers 2006). Den Lernenden ist es gelungen, ihre Repräsentationen über das Lösen einer Aufgabe aufeinander (fein-) abzustimmen, während sie daran arbeiteten. Mit Hilfe von Zeitreihenanalysen konnte gezeigt werden, dass die Schülerinnen und Schüler die Fragen im Lerntagebuch gegen Ende der Intervention oberflächlicher beantworteten und die Lerntagebücher tendenziell weniger häufig ausgefüllt wurden (negative Trends). Eine Erklärung für die geringere Antworthäufigkeit, die zu negativen Verlaufskurven über die Zeit führten, könnte sein, dass die Instruktionsdichte durch den Mix an offenen und geschlossenen Fragen im Lerntagebuch zu hoch war. Die Lernenden haben sich möglicherweise so an die Fragen bzw. Antwortformate gewöhnt, dass die Motivation, in das Lerntagebuch zu schreiben, geringer wurde. N2 - The following research project focuses on metacognitive and motivational skills as aspects of self-regulated learning. It studies the usability and the limitations of learning diaries that are designed to foster those skills for elementary school students with a migrational background. The goal of the study is to know whether and how self-regulated learning processes can be measured and changed through the use of learning diaries. Therefore 28 students of an elementary school in Berlin worked for 14 weeks with a semi-standardized learning diary which was designed in accordance to Wohland/Spinath (2004) and which was integrated in classroom teaching. To measure the changes in metacognitive and motivational skills 43 students in two experimental groups and one control group had to fill in self-report questionnaires before and after the diary-intervention. The 28 learning diaries of the two experimental groups were content and process analyzed. Furthermore interviews were conducted with teachers about their classroom teaching and with students about their perception of working with a diary. The questionnaire data showed that the learning diary could be useful for fostering metacognitive but not motivational skills. The results of the diary data showed that the 28 students with a migrational background were able to verbalize their learning process when working on a specific task. They were also able to make predictions about their own approach towards solving a task. The learning diaries supported the calibration (Desoete/Roeyers 2006) of their metacognitive experiences (Efklides/Petkaki 2005). Students were able to fine-tune their representations about solving a task as they went on with task processing. Time-series-analysis showed that towards the end of the intervention there was a tendency to answer with superficial and lower frequency responses (negative trends). One explanation for the lower frequency of responses, which led to negative curves over time, could be that too much instructional support was elicited through the learning diary's mix of open and closed questions. The learners may have adjusted to the prompts and answer formats leading to a decrease in motivation to write. KW - Selbstgesteuertes Lernen KW - Lerntagebücher KW - Schülerinnen und Schüler mit Migrationshintergrund KW - Self-regulated learning KW - Learning Diary KW - Students with a migrational background Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51227 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spörer, Nadine A1 - Schuenemann, Nina T1 - competence: Analyzing effects on reading comprehension, reading strategy performance, and motivation for reading JF - Learning and instruction : the journal of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction N2 - In this study, reciprocal teaching (RT) was combined with specific self-regulation procedures to promote the reading comprehension of fifth grade students. Twenty four classes with N = 534 students were assigned to RT plus strategy implementation procedures (RT +SIP), RT plus outcome regulation procedures (RT + ORP), RT plus strategy implementation and outcome regulation procedures (RT+ SRL), or RT without explicit instruction in self-regulation. At maintenance students assigned to the three self-regulation conditions outperformed RT students according to a standardized measure of reading comprehension. RT+ SIP and RT + SRL students outperformed RI as well as RI + ORP students using a measure of reading strategy performance. However, reading comprehension was only mediated by strategy performance under the RT + SRL condition. Among students assigned to the RI + ORP condition, an improvement in reading motivation between pretest and posttest and between posttest and maintenance was observed. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. KW - Reading comprehension KW - Self-regulated learning KW - Reading strategies KW - Educational intervention research Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2014.05.002 SN - 0959-4752 VL - 33 SP - 147 EP - 157 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER -