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Casanova de Vilalta, Lydia
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Treball fi de màster de: Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive MediaDirectors: Patricia Santos, Marc BeardsleyApplied cognitive psychology has been a center topic for a number of research works
in last decades. In particular, there are studies conducted on memory, cognition
and on the science of learning. The latter are meant to find new methods in order
to improve the process of learning. The use of the Retrieval Practice (RP) and
Distributed Learning (DL) has been proved to be improving the efficiency of learning
when compared to Massive Learning (ML) practices (which is the most used method
in formal education). Even though there are studies which proved the advantages
of using DL, different patterns can be found and it is not clear which one is the best
to apply to get the best students’ results.
This study was conducted in the last 3 courses of primary education and the learning
topic was Computational Thinking (CT). CT is one of the 21st century skills that
gained more attention and it is progressively being incorporated in formal learning
since the early stages of education. CT refers to understanding how to develop stepby-step solutions of problems, helping students to use and improve logical thinking,
pattern recognition and decomposition skills. New generations are likely to live in
a technologically integrated society, hence, CT might become an essential skill that
will enable them to understand and manipulate the technology that surrounds them.
Thus, the main goal of this project is to find out how the learning process is affected
by different patterns of distributed practice and discover which is the distribution
that leads to a better performance in the latter, as well as being suitable to apply
in formal learning contexts. In order to do that, two different patterns of DL and
a ML group (as a control group) will be compared with the aim to find which one
of the two reaches the best performance using RP as a constant in all groups. As
a result, I expect that DL groups will perform better than the ML groups, and I
forsee to find out whether there is a significant difference in performance between
the two DL patterns tested.
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Distributed Learning
Computational Thinking
Massive Learning
Retrieval Practice
Formal Education
Effects of distributed learning patterns on elementary student learning of computational thinking
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