Many teacher educators have enthusiastically embraced case-based instruction in teacher education programs. However, the research base on whether pre-service and inservice teacher educators’ case-based reflections on educational issues is comprehensive and critical manner is equivocal. This study explores the use of a metacognitive strategy, the Case Decision Making Scaffold (CDMS), in the cont...

This paper reported on the findings of research into innovation in e-learning design and assessment through the development and implementation of online learning activities (e-tivities). The focus of the study was on Carpe Diem as a process to enable academic course teams to seize 2 days to design and embed pedagogically appropriate e-tivities into their courses. The study also addressed the us...

The human psyche is equipped with the capacity to solve similar problems in different ways. Social psychologists describe the different, complementary mental states that enable a person to reach a given end as mindsets. Mindset theories rest on the assumption that people can and do switch mindsets and that doing so requires a drastic change in perspective. Given the importance of being able to ...

This paper shows a microanalysis of episodes of therapeutic change and ruptures of the alliance using Dialogic Discourse Analysis as a method that makes it possible to detect discursive strategies in psychotherapeutic dialogue. Four relevant episodes, two of therapeutic change and two of ruptures of the alliance, from different sessions of a long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy were analyzed ...

In hidden-profile (HP) problems, groups squander their potential to make superior decisions because members fail to capitalize on each other’s unique knowledge (unshared information). A new self-regulation perspective suggests that hindrances in goal striving (e.g., failing to seize action opportunities) contribute to this problem. Implementation intentions (if–then plans) are known to help dea...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of two forms of concept mapping, hand-drawn and computer-generated, on the descriptive essay writing of middle-level students with learning disabilities. Twelve eighth-grade students composed descriptive essays under three conditions: no-map support, handmap support, and computer-map support. The essays were compared on four measures: number ...

Winne' s (1995) thoughtful and proactive article stressed the role of metacognitive processes in self-regulated learning. Although metacognition and forms of knowledge are important, they provide an incomplete picture of the processes involved in self-regulation. Theoretical and empirical evidence support the inclusion of student perceptions and motivational processes as integral components of ...

Regulations that govern the social and environmental impacts of global firms and markets without state enforcement are a relatively new dimension of global business regulation. The growth of such voluntary “civil regulations” reflects both the expansion of legitimate authority in the global economy outside the state and the increasing use of alternative regulatory instruments to govern firms, i...

People often regulate their feelings by striving for particular emotional states. The self-regulation of emotions should be influenced by self-awareness, which is a primary instigator of self-regulation. Because the outcome of self-regulation depends, in part, on the relevant comparison standards, self-focus will have a flexible effect on emotional intensity depending on the standard. But an ea...

Many would agree that learning on the Web – a highly autonomous learning environment – may be difficult for less motivated individuals (Hartley & Bendixen, 2001). Using a social cognitive view of self-regulated learning (Bandura, 1997; Schunk & Zimmerman, 1998), the objective of the present study was to investigate the relations between two motivational constructs, prior experience, and several...