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Design of a learning dashboard to enhance reading outcomes and self-directed learning behaviors in out-of-class extensive reading

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: Self-directed learning (SDL) requires students to take initiative to learn and control their own learning process. Literature highlights the importance of SDL for lifelong learning. Yet, little understanding is known regarding how to support SDL at the school level, specifically for out-of-class learning context. To fill up this gap, this research developed a learning dashboard and integrated SDL process management in GOAL system. It was implemented to provide support for out-of-class online self-directed extensive reading (SDER) at a high school level. A two-group study conducted during a three-week spring vacation found the experimental group (N = 35, with SDL support) achieved significantly more reading outcomes than the control group (N = 12, without SDL support). Detailed GOAL interaction behavior analysis of the experimental group showed that viewing learning dashboard was significantly correlated with reading outcomes as well as interactions related to SDL process management. These findings highlights positive effect of SDL support in GOAL on students' out-of-class SDER outcomes as well as their SDL behaviors. The study provided implications for research related to extensive reading and SDL support for out-of-class learning.

Source: Interactive Learning Environments

DOI: 10.1080/10494820.2022.2101126

Authors: Yuanyuan Yang, Rwitajit Majumdar, Huiyong Li, Brendan Flanagan, Hiroaki Ogata

Institutions: Kyoto University, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University

Language: English

Topic: Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funders: New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science