Dimensions Of Learning Research Articles

Conceptualisation of learning to learn competence and the challenges of implementation: The Estonian experience

AbstractThe importance of students' learning to learn competence for academic achievement, as well as their well‐being at school and in life, is increasingly emphasised by educators and policy makers in national curricula and educational strategies. In an uncertain and complex world, learners need to become autonomous, be able to analyse challenges and apply knowledge in different contexts, address complex tasks, and create new knowledge. This article explores concepts and approaches to the development of students' learning to learn competence in the context of education in Estonia. First, the conceptualisation, model and dimensions of learning to learn competence are described and related challenges for teachers are analysed. Second, an overview of Estonian teachers' current practices, beliefs, knowledge, skills and occupational standards relevant to students' learning to learn competence is provided. We discuss how Estonian teacher education policy may enhance or inhibit the work of teachers when supporting students to develop learning to learn competence. Future directions for teacher educators and how to prepare teachers to support the development of students' learning to learn competence are suggested.

Learning preference among accounting students of the University of Mindanao

Learning preferences are a way to enhance the learning experiences. Students can adjust learning processes and techniques if they understand the impact of different experiences. This study utilized cluster analysis to categorize the learning dimensions on the index of learning preferences of first-year accounting students at the University of Mindanao. A survey was conducted on accounting students, and a method of quantitative correlation was employed. Data were collected using a modified research questionnaire. To determine the learning preferences of first-year accounting students, the researchers use gender, age, and socio-economic status as indicators. The statistical treatments used to analyze and interpret data were principal component analysis and clustering analysis. The study's results indicated the following: (a) most students gain the most knowledge from what they hear; (b) the method that the students utilized is Auditory and Visual. In contrast, group and kinesthetic learning preferences are the students' least preferred.

Learning Loss Typology: A Proposed Framework for Categorizing Learning Loss During COVID-19 Pandemic

Learning loss has been a global issue around educational scope lately. This study aimed at proposing a framework for categorizing learning loss during the covid-19 pandemic based on article review results. A qualitative approach has been employed utilizing systematic and qualitative-critical reviews as the research design. The main subject involved 26 articles that were selected purposively. All data were analyzed interactively before the objective was set, and the results were portrayed through grounded theory by Anderson & Krathwohl's dimensions of learning. The results show that learning loss in the affective domain includes a lack of learning motivation, social interaction, self-esteem, engagement, and interest. The sources of learning loss in the affective domain are geographical factors, socio-economic factors, and the digital divide; and in the psychomotor domain are educational inequality and low competence to adapt to situations. The mitigation of learning loss in the affective domain is improving learning facilities and mental care for students in the cognitive domain is adjusting the curriculum and adapting learning methods; in the psychomotor domain is an enhancing literacy skill.

The Right Way to Teach Lefties – Exploring the Experiences of Left-Handed Trainees and Surgeons

This study describes the educational experiences of left-handed (LH) surgeons and provides recommendations for educating LH trainees, who face challenges due to their handedness. A mixed methods analysis was performed. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with LH trainees, LH attendings, and right-handed (RH) attendings representing 4 hospitals within a large academic hospital system. Questions were curated from current literature to explore the educational experiences of LH trainees. Inductive and iterative coding techniques were employed to manually generate themes. Laterality questionnaires for skills in daily life and surgery were collected and analyzed. Laterality questionnaires demonstrate that LH trainees and surgeons are more mixed-handed and use their nondominant hand to a greater extent in surgery compared to daily life than RH attendings. Key themes were identified in the dimension of learning, including that initial decisions for which hand to use remain fixed throughout career, LH learning is largely self-directed, forced conformation to RH norms and microaggressions are common, LH instruments are rarely practical, and LH surgeons are advantaged with situational ambidexterity. Key themes related to teaching include that communication regarding handedness is lacking, RH surgeons are often unaware of/resistant to a LH approach, the onus is on the trainee to suggest accommodations to use their left hand, and attendings rarely effectively mentor LH learners in using their left hand. Left-handed surgeons face challenges in an environment designed for RH individuals, represented by themes regarding learning and teaching experiences of LH surgeons told by themselves and their teachers. Recommendations were created for LH trainees in learning, all attendings in teaching, LH attendings in their opportunity to mentor, and surgical societies in supporting LH trainees. Development of resources for LH trainees could fill a substantial gap. Exploration of how LH surgeons evolve situational ambidexterity could benefit all surgeons.

How Immersion and Self-Avatars in VR Affect Learning Programming and Computational Thinking in Middle School Education.

We present an empirical evaluation of immersion and self-avatars as compared to desktop viewing in Virtual Reality (VR) for learning computer programming and computational thinking in middle school education using an educational VR simulation. Students were asked to programmatically choreograph dance performances for virtual characters within an educational desktop application we built earlier called Virtual Environment Interactions (VEnvI). As part of a middle school science class, 90 students from the 6th and 7th grades participated in our study. All students first visually programmed dance choreography for a virtual character they created in VEnvI on a laptop. Then, they viewed and interacted with the resulting dance performance in a between-subjects design in one of the three conditions. We compared and contrasted the benefits of embodied immersive virtual reality (EVR) viewing utilizing a head-mounted display with a body-scaled and gender-matched self-avatar, immersive virtual reality only (IVR) viewing, and desktop VR (NVR) viewing with VEnvI on pedagogical outcomes, programming performance, presence, and attitudes towards STEM and computational thinking. Results from a cognition questionnaire showed that, in the learning dimensions of Knowledge and Understanding (Bloom's taxonomy) as well as Multistructural (SOLO taxonomy), participants in EVR and IVR scored significantly higher than NVR. Also, participants in EVR scored significantly higher than IVR. We also discovered similar results in objective programming performance and presence scores in VEnvI. Furthermore, students' attitudes towards computer science, programming confidence, and impressions significantly improved to be the highest in EVR and then IVR as compared to NVR condition.

Emotions of CLIL Preservice Teachers in Teaching Non-Linguistic Subjects in English

This paper reports an exploratory, descriptive study on the emotions of content and language-integrated learning preservice teachers. The study, carried out in a Spanish university, aimed at analysing the internship experience of 19 preservice teachers in the context of a master’s degree in bilingual education (Spanish–English) for primary and secondary school teachers to determine the emotions experienced and the causative factors. The participants completed a questionnaire which showed that positive emotions were more frequent than negative ones. The variable causing such feelings included the subject taught, the sex of the teaching staff, previous experience, attitudes of educational centre tutors, and the students themselves. Therefore, the study highlights the affective dimension of teaching content and language-integrated learning.

The relationship between patient safety culture and adverse events in Iranian hospitals: a survey among 360 nurses

BackgroundAdverse events have become a global problem and are an important indicator of patient safety. Patient safety culture is essential in efforts to reduce adverse events in the hospital. This study aimed to investigate the status of the patient safety culture, the frequency of adverse events, and the relationship between them in Qazvin's hospitals in Iran.MethodsThe present study is a descriptive-analytical study conducted in six hospitals in Qazvin, Iran, in 2020. The study population was nurses working in Qazvin hospitals. We collected data via a patient safety culture questionnaire and an adverse event checklist. Three hundred sixty nurses completed questionnaires. Multiple logistic regression was used to investigate the relationship between variables.ResultsThe highest mean of patient safety culture was related to the organizational learning dimension (3.5, SD = .074) and feedback and communication about errors (3.4, SD = 0.82). The participants gave the lowest score to dimensions of exchanges and transfer of information (2.45,=0.86) and management support for patient safety (2.62,Sd = 0.65). Management's support for patient safety, general understanding of patient safety culture, teamwork within organizational units, communication and feedback on errors, staff issues, and information exchange and transfer were significant predictors of adverse events.ConclusionThis study confirms patient safety culture as a predictor of adverse events. Healthcare managers should provide the basis for improving the patient safety culture and reducing adverse events through methods such as encouraging the reporting of adverse events and also holding training courses for nurses.

The Mediating Role of Emotional Labor in Linking Organizational Learning and Organizational Identification in the Aviation Industry

In our study examined the mediating role of emotional labor in the effect of organizational learning on organizational identification. The purpose of the study is to measure the effect of organizational learning on organizational identification and to examine the mediating effect of emotional labor on the dimensions of learning. There are studies showing that organizational learning has a direct effect on organizational identification, but the mediating role of emotional labor has not been investigated.
 The population of the study was the employees of ground services in the aviation sector of the Marmara region, 400 employees were reached through random sampling and data were collected through questionnaires. According to the results of the research, organizational learning is effective on organizational identification and emotional labor plays mediating role in this effect. In this context, emotional labor has a mediating role in the effect of managerial commitment, systemic perspective, transparency and experimentation and informational transaction and integration on organizational identification, which are sub-dimensions of organizational learning.

Addressing Emotions and Beliefs for Vulnerable Jobseekers with Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) technologies have been shown to impact the affective and motivational dimensions of learning, for example increasing learners’ enjoyment, confidence, and self-efficacy beliefs. While VR is increasingly being used for workforce development, research on these dimensions of learning in authentic workforce development contexts remains thin. This mixed-method case study addressed the need for more research on VR’s affordances for engaging affective dimensions of learning. We investigated the impact of a job interview VR simulation on the emotions, confidence, and self-efficacy beliefs of jobseekers who have been impacted by the criminal justice system. By observing the implementation of this application in an authentic workforce development context, we also addressed questions about how VR use and facilitation vary among participants. We find compelling evidence that a VR job interview simulation tailored to the experiences of people impacted by the criminal justice system can alleviate some of the emotional toll the job search takes on this vulnerable population, but we did not find evidence of changes in their self-efficacy beliefs. We discuss ways participants described the simulation as authentic practice, and how its facilitation and use varied, emphasizing the importance of VR design as a tool within a broader instructional context.

Survey of learning motivation of elementary school students starting face-to-face learning after the covid 19 pandemic in Bangli regency

This study aims to determine the level of learning motivation of elementary school students when starting face-to-face learning. This type of research is quantitative research, using survey methods. This research on students' learning motivation in elementary schools took Bangli Regency. Data collection is done by distributing surveys using Google Forms. The results showed that the dimension of persistence in learning was in the very good category with an average of 82.59%, the dimension of achievement in learning was included in the good category with an average of 76.55%, the independent dimension in learning was included in the very good category with an average percentage of 83.66%. Meanwhile, the dimensions of rewards and punishments in learning are included in the good category with an average percentage of 71.73%. The average percentage of the four dimensions is 78.63%, this result is included in the category of good learning motivation.

River science: an educational resource for understanding and learning to survive flooding and environmental change

ABSTRACT Integrated river science provides decision-making life-skills for individuals and communities facing environmental change; it is a variant of critical physical geography through its socio-political dimensions. As an example, the frequency and magnitude of river flooding are amplified by climate change: society needs to understand how to cope through learning, adaptative behaviour and planning. Choices should be informed by trusted science that can only be delivered by education, to avoid “knee jerk” post-hazard reactions. We examine curricula and resources in physical geography for England to judge if they make river science more pervasive and persuasive. Scales of causation and impact remain a central geographical focus. The concept of “place” is revitalized: environmental processes harnessed to improve resilience. Literacy and numeracy skills to communicate and predict need improving, to ensure that students understand problems sufficiently well to identify the best long-term, rigorously assessed options. Higher education has a hub role for empowering lay individuals, communities and professionals but the core learning principles need to be set at school. We conclude the current physical geography river science content is not fit for future needs, notably at A-Level. Weaknesses include naivety about river processes (water and sediment movement), arcane jargon, absence of a catchment-wide approach to river management, and inadequate links between disciplined fieldwork and databases. Contemporary community dimensions of social learning, argument and countering myths are also weakly developed.

Debriefing to improve interprofessional teamwork in the operating room: A systematic review.

Debriefing has been pivotal in medical simulation training, but its application to the real-world operating room environment has been challenging. We reviewed the literature on routine surgical debriefing with special reference to its implementation, barriers, and effectiveness. Descriptive systematic review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. Inclusion criteria were papers pertaining to debriefing in routine surgical practice. Excluded were papers reporting simulation training. We searched Google Scholar, CINAHL, Web of Science Core Collection, PsychINFO, Medline, Embase, and ProQuest Theses & Dissertations Global. The last search was performed on March 14, 2022. Quality was assessed on a 21-point checklist adapted from a standard reporting guideline. Synthesis was descriptive. The search process resulted in 19 papers. Publication dates ranged from 2007-2022. Study methods included surveys, interviews, and analysis of administrative data. Five papers involved a specific intervention. Quality scores ranged from 12-19 out of 21. On synthesis, we identified five topics: explanations of how debriefing had been implemented; the value of coaching and audit; the learning dimensions of debriefing, both team learning and quality improvement at the organizational level; the effect of debriefing on patient safety or the organization's culture; and barriers to debriefing. Successful implementation programs were characterized by strong commitment from management and support by frontline workers. Integration with administrative quality and safety processes, and information feedback to frontline workers are fundamental to successful debriefing programs. Debriefing can improve teamwork, learning, and psychological safety but is difficult to practice in the operating room environment. It is relevant to review the benefits and barriers to debriefing, and to learn from the experience of others, in order to run better debriefing models in our own hospitals.

Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of an Educational Application in the Quality of Students’ Learning in the Cardiac Surgery Technology Course

Background: There are various methods for teaching content, which is the most common lecture method with the most minor retention in teaching. Innovation in basic science teaching methods is needed to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of technology. The purpose of this study was to design, implement, and evaluate an educational application (gamification) on students’ learning in the course of cardiac surgery technology. Methods: This study is applied research in this project in which we intended to make the concepts of cardiac surgery technology understandable, enjoyable, and easy for students using an educational application (gamification) method. In this study, an educational application was created and provided to the students. Finally, three areas of student perception of learning, their scientific ability, and their educational atmosphere were evaluated via the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire. Results: According to the demographic findings, out of 110 samples, 65 (59%) were female students, and the mean age of the participating students was 21.23±2. The application was compatible with the Android operating system. It consisted of three parts investigating anatomy, surgical procedure, and cardiac surgical instruments and other parts investigating search, game guide, and participants’ points. Students’ learning and learning environment were evaluated as high (good picture of learning). Regarding the learning dimension and educational atmosphere, the highest score was related to the learning dimension (45.1). Moreover, there was no statistically significant difference between the mean perception scores of male and female students. Conclusion: With the advancement of technology and industrialization of different societies, the use of new learning methods will be highly effective in educating students. According to the results of this study, students’ satisfaction with this educational application in cardiac surgery technology course indicated that this application upgrades and improves the learning of new teaching methods and motivates students to participate in the classroom. In other words, applying educational content can be fruitful.

Transformative learning in clinical reasoning: a meta-synthesis in undergraduate primary care medical education

ABSTRACT Clinical reasoning is a vital medical education skill, yet its nuances in undergraduate primary care settings remain debated. This systematic review explores clinical reasoning teaching and learning intricacies within primary care. We redefine clinical reasoning as dynamically assimilating and prioritising synthesised patient, significant other, or healthcare professional information for diagnoses or non-diagnoses. This focused meta-synthesis applies transformative learning theory to primary care clinical reasoning education. A comprehensive analysis of 29 selected studies encompassing various designs made insights into clinical reasoning learning dimensions visible. Primary care placements in varying duration and settings foster diverse instructional methods like bedside teaching, clinical consultations, simulated clinics, virtual case libraries, and more. This review highlights the interplay between disease-oriented and patient-centred orientations in clinical reasoning learning. Transformative learning theory provides an innovative lens, revealing stages of initiation, persistence, time and space, and competence and confidence in students’ clinical reasoning evolution. Clinical teachers guide this transformation, adopting roles as fortifiers, connoisseurs, mediators, and monitors. Patient engagement spans passive to active involvement, co-constructing clinical reasoning. The review underscores theoretical underpinnings’ significance in shaping clinical reasoning pedagogy, advocating broader diversity. Intentional student guidance amid primary care complexities is vital. Utilising transformative learning, interventions bridging cognitive boundaries enhance meaningful clinical reasoning learning experiences. This study contributes insights for refining pedagogy, encouraging diverse research, and fostering holistic clinical reasoning development.

Exploring the Affordances of Place-Based Education for Advancing Sustainability Education: The Role of Cognitive, Socio-Emotional and Behavioural Learning

The present paper explores the affordances of place-based education (PBE) to enhance the goals of sustainability education (SE). UNESCO, the leading international body responsible for advancing SE, assigns a central role to the three dimensions of cognitive, socio-emotional and behavioural learning as a means for advancing sustainability and the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals. Thus far, little research attention has been given to examining pedagogical approaches that may be effective in supporting these learning dimensions. PBE has risen over the past years as a holistic educational approach that may be well situated for supporting SE goals. To evaluate its affordances, the study put forward the objectives to (i) examine the application of cognitive, socio-emotional and behavioural learning dimensions in empirical studies employing PBE; and (ii) examine the overall contribution of PBE to developing students’ sustainability awareness, as reflected in the PBE case-study literature. Multiple case-study analysis was employed for examining secondary resources, comprised of four PBE case studies reported in the literature. It was found that the implementation of PBE in the context of SE produced holistic learning outcomes across the three dimensions, as early as in kindergarten students. Through direct content with nature and the local community, students’ agency, voice and action competence increased, having ripple effects across the community, connecting the local with the global. PBE advanced inter-cultural sensitivity and promoted the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in SE.

Moderasi dalam Pembelajaran Agama Islam di Madrasah dan Perguruan Tinggi

Moderation is the best choice to be applied in the world of education or in the learning process considering that acts of violence and bullying disturb the community and tolerance is the right choice to practice in social life. To create a more tolerant social life, education is needed that initiates moderation in learning, especially in Islamic religious learning because Islam is one of the subjects in schools/madrasas and tertiary institutions which makes it possible to be directed to learning that contains moderation, especially in context of religious moderation. Islamic religious learning with a concentration of religious moderation is expected to minimize acts of radicalism, considering that Indonesian society is known for its pluralism and diversity of religions, ethnicities, customs, languages, and cultures. The method used in this research is to use a qualitative type with a literature study approach. The results of this study indicate that moderation in Islamic religious learning in schools/madrasah and universities must be demonstrated by utilizing learning dimensions that are rich in religious moderation values, while the learning dimensions are, 1) Direct learning strategies in the form of drills and indirect strategies in the form of relaxation, 2) Learning models with a multidisciplinary approach, inquiry methods, discussion and question and answer techniques as well as learning objectives based on religion and Indonesianness.

Engaging diverse experts in the global science-policy interface: Learning experiences from the process of the IPBES Values Assessment

This longitudinal study explores evidence of learning and reflexivity among experts involved in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment from 2018 to 2022. As part of an online survey administered at yearly intervals, experts self-reported their views on: i) the aims they attributed to the Values Assessment, ii) their epistemic worldviews, iii) the definition of the multiple values of nature, and iv) their personal learning experiences in the assessment process. The represented epistemic worldviews corresponded to Constructivist, Transformative, Pragmatist, and Post-positivist. Across the three surveys, 59% of the respondents shifted their epistemic worldviews. However, these same experts did not change their core perspectives regarding the motivation behind the Values Assessment. At the same time, experts holding a Post-positivist worldview came to express more engagement-inclined themes and openness to dialogue with diverse knowledge systems. While enhanced reflexivity stimulated overall learning, cutting across all learning dimensions, it was itself a multilayered learning outcome. This study illustrates how diverse experts critically reflected and changed their own underlying assumptions during the inter- and transdisciplinary process of the Values Assessment. It further reveals that learning experiences in the Values Assessment were embedded in epistemic worldviews and connected to cognitive, relational, and transformative dimensions of learning. Our findings have broader implications for the design of inclusive and reflexive learning processes in future work of organisations aiming to facilitate inter- and transdisciplinary practices at the science-policy interface.

들뢰즈의 장치론을 활용한 학습관리장치 개념 탐색

Learning Management Apparatus (LMA) is a concept that explains the mechanism of conditioning learners (Kang et al., 2017). While research on LMA has been accumulating, discussions concerning its theoretical aspects are still ongoing. This article complements the concept of LMA, drawing upon Deleuze's dispositif theory. In the field of social science, the concept of dispositif explains the mechanisms that mediate ideology, power, and governmentality to (re)produce subjects. Educational research has demonstrated the role of dispositif in subjectivation, emphasizing how educational practices function as a dispositif that subjects learners to power and (re)produces them. However, Deleuze's dispositif theory indicates that the line of subjectivation within a dispositif is not completely predetermined, suggesting an incomplete process of conditioning. By adopting Deleuze's dispositif theory, LMA can be understood as a mechanism that conditions learners while also allowing for the emergence of new subjectivities. The contradictory nature of conditioning as (re)production and the emergence of new subjectivities inherent in LMA becomes a fundamental driving force that influences its maintenance, transformation, creation, or dissolution. This article, which explains the conditioning and incompleteness of LMA through Deleuze's dispositif theory, provides a perspective to examine learner transformation in terms of learner (re)production and directs attention to the micro and macro dimensions of education and learning.

Reframing places, communities and identities: social learning in urban experimentation

A central promise of urban experiments (UEs) is to create sites for social learning. However, research on such learning in sustainability transitions still lacks conceptual clarity and empirical evidence. This article helps to close this gap by analyzing how social learning emerges from urban experimentation. It adopts a transactional understanding of learning induced by disruptions of everyday habits and distinguishes cognitive, normative, and relational learning processes. Further, the additional dimension of socio-material learning is derived to account for changes in understanding or interpreting material realities. These concepts serve an analytical framework for a case study of two transition experiments carried out as part of the transdisciplinary research project “Dresden – City of the Future.” The two UEs strive to initiate local sustainability transitions pertaining to participatory governance of urban districts and co-creation of a livable schoolyard. The empirical results illustrate how interventions by the two UEs induced learning in the sense of changes of cognitive understandings, norms, relations among people, as well as between people and their socio-material environments. The experiments encouraged individual and collective learning and in particular the formation of collective identities and interpretations of specific places. By comparing two UEs, we further show differences in learning regarding the actor groups, namely that the majority of learning processes in the first experiment dealt with bridging the gap between prevalent routines of the school community and novel habits introduced by the initiators of the experiment. Participants of the second experiment were socio-ecologically minded from the outset and therefore fewer learning processes took place in this regard.

Effects of EMI-CLIL on secondary-level students’ English learning: A multilevel meta-analysis

This meta-analysis synthesized the effects of the English medium instruction and content and language integrated learning (EMI-CLIL) approach on secondary-level students’ English learning. The dataset included 44 samples (N = 7,434) from 38 primary studies. The results revealed EMI-CLIL’s overall effectiveness for the development of English competence compared to the mainstream condition in the short term (d = 0.73, SE = 0.06, 95% CI [0.61, 0.86]) and longer term (d = 1.01, SE = 0.06, 95% CI [0.88, 1.15]). Additionally, we found that EMI-CLIL’s overall effectiveness was influenced by several moderator variables. Its effectiveness was significantly: (1) higher for learners whose first language (L1) was linguistically related to English; (2) lower for primary studies which confirmed the homogeneity of the EMI-CLIL and comparison groups; (3) lower when studies targeted the productive (rather than receptive or overall) dimension of English learning; and (4) higher when outcome measures focused on vocabulary. Implications for pedagogy and future research are discussed.