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Zwanenburg, Judith (2022)

Het effect van voorspellingen op leerprestaties bij kinderen vs. volwassenen

Master thesis | Education and Child Studies (MSc)

The goal of this study is to do a follow-up study of the research that Brod and Breitwieser (2019) did to get a better understanding of the added value of prediction as a learning strategy and the part that curiosity seems to play. In this study a comparison will be made between early adolescents and adults. This was done with a computer task where participants learned facts in two conditions. A prediction condition where they made predictions and a postdiction condition in which the participants, after seeing the correct answer, answered what they would have thought the answer was. The participants also completed a questionnaire to measure their curiosity as a trait. In this study was found that adults overall scored higher than the early adolescents. Beside this, there were no significant findings about the difference between prediction and postdiction. There were also no significant findings about curiosity as trait. In future research it seems important to include factors as...Show moreThe goal of this study is to do a follow-up study of the research that Brod and Breitwieser (2019) did to get a better understanding of the added value of prediction as a learning strategy and the part that curiosity seems to play. In this study a comparison will be made between early adolescents and adults. This was done with a computer task where participants learned facts in two conditions. A prediction condition where they made predictions and a postdiction condition in which the participants, after seeing the correct answer, answered what they would have thought the answer was. The participants also completed a questionnaire to measure their curiosity as a trait. In this study was found that adults overall scored higher than the early adolescents. Beside this, there were no significant findings about the difference between prediction and postdiction. There were also no significant findings about curiosity as trait. In future research it seems important to include factors as surprise into the study.Show less

learning strategies

prediction

education

Author

Zwanenburg, Judith

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Educational Science

Supervisors

Jolles, D.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

nl