Science laboratories are disposed to enhance students’ motivation for science classrooms in school. The present study was carried out to investigate this assumption for a particular chemistry lab. We received data on motivational variables of N = 272 ...

This article addresses the connection of self-regulation and the acquisition of content knowledge in science education. A quasi-experimental design with 199 seventh graders in a ...

The present study investigates the impact of the perceived support of three ...

Is the advantage of auditory over visual text presentation in multimedia learning caused by the picture and the visual text both being processed in the visuo-spatial system of working memory, which is thus overloaded? In the present paper, we consider an ...

It is controversially discussed whether and how learning experience through various sensory modalities supports concept acquisition. Based on modality-specific semantic memory accounts, we investigated this issue exemplarily by assessing the role of motor ...

Starting from difficulties that students display when they deal with correlation analysis, a computer-based learning environment («Koralle») was developed ...

In this study the psychometric properties and the factor structure of the German Test Anxiety Inventory TAI-G () were tested in a sample of 720 students from different courses. The known factor ...

By using an inductive reasoning training the present experiment tests the hypotheses (1) that the effect of ...