STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WEB-BASED TUTORIALS AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF REGULATED LEARNING AND LEARNING PERFORMANCE USING WEB-BASED TUTORIALS

Swati Nere, Eugenia Fernandez

2010

Abstract

This study was designed to examine the effectiveness of Web Based Tutorials (WBTs) and the correlation between students’ self efficacy score for self regulated learning and their learning performance using WBTs. Participants were graduate students (N = 14) enrolled in a statistics course during a single semester. The results of this study showed that WBTs were effective for learning statistics concepts. However, there was no correlation between students’ self efficacy score for self regulated learning and their learning performance using WBTs. Additional investigation showed that the classroom instruction mode was more effective than the WBT instruction.

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Nere S. and Fernandez E. (2010). STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WEB-BASED TUTORIALS AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF REGULATED LEARNING AND LEARNING PERFORMANCE USING WEB-BASED TUTORIALS . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-674-023-8, pages 19-26. DOI: 10.5220/0002774800190026


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author={Swati Nere and Eugenia Fernandez},
title={STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WEB-BASED TUTORIALS AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF REGULATED LEARNING AND LEARNING PERFORMANCE USING WEB-BASED TUTORIALS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2010},
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doi={10.5220/0002774800190026},
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TI - STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WEB-BASED TUTORIALS AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF REGULATED LEARNING AND LEARNING PERFORMANCE USING WEB-BASED TUTORIALS
SN - 978-989-674-023-8
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DO - 10.5220/0002774800190026