Theoanthropocentric: Learning Strategies for Improving Students’ Conceptual Understanding

The role of academic self-efficacy in improving students’ metacognitive learning strategies

Introduction: Metacognitive strategies play an essential role instudents’ learning and achievement; therefore, identifying theirantecedents should be considered. This study indicated howself-efficacy, as motivational beliefs, affects the meta-cognitivestrategies of medical students using a SEM approach.Method: The present study was a quantitative cross-sectional<br...

Improving Students’ Understanding in Scientific Processes by Conceptual Web-based Models

Federated Learning: Strategies for Improving Communication Efficiency

Federated Learning is a machine learning setting where the goal is to train a highquality centralized model with training data distributed over a large number of clients each with unreliable and relatively slow network connections. We consider learning algorithms for this setting where on each round, each client independently computes an update to the current model based on its local data, and ...

Learning to Assess Low-Level Conceptual Understanding

This paper analyzes the impact of several lexical and grammatical features in automated assessment of students’ finegrained understanding of tutored concepts. Truly effective dialog and pedagogy in Intelligent Tutoring Systems is only achievable when systems are able to understand the detailed relationships between a student’s answer and the desired conceptual understanding. We describe a new m...

Learning in friendship groups: developing students’ conceptual understanding through social interaction

The role that student friendship groups play in learning was investigated here. Employing a critical realist design, two focus groups on undergraduates were conducted to explore their experience of studying. Data from the "case-by-case" analysis suggested student-to-student friendships produced social contexts which facilitated conceptual understanding through discussion, explanation, and appli...