Thomas Martens
Jul 052011
Sep 022019
Hurricane Dorian crawls slowly but with unmatchted power …
Climate activists have predicted this for a long time, starting in the early eighties, that the average temperature would rise. But they were wrong. It turns out that climate change will faster progress than predicted in the eighties.
One of the very obvious results of climate change is the rising surface level temperature of tropic oceans. This may not automatically result in more hurricanes because of the complex weather dynamics. But there is an association proved by the observed rise of the Power Disspation index within the last years.
So Dorian is very probable also a result of climate change.
I think the inhabitants of the Bahamas will suffer greatly, because the eye of the hurricane Dorian is moving very slowly. Sadly it will bring very strong winds and a lot of rainfall to the Bahamas in the next two days.
Projected track of Dorian: https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/wirbelsturm-tracks/euro/521e26e30d5bd578cbebd672be4f040f/2019090200-240-dorian.html
Satellite image of Dorian: https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/sat/786-w-268-n/satellit-superhd-1min.html#play8
Weather forecast for the Bahamas: https://weather.us/forecast/3572375-freeport/essentials
May 282019
EARLI 2019 program
The 18th Biennial EARLI Conference will be hosted by RWTH Aachen, Germany. All participants are encouraged to present results and ideas on state-of-the-art research in learning and instruction, specifically around the topic “Thinking Tomorrow’s Education: Learning from the past, in the present and for the future“.
In times of constant changes, the future is a moving target – difficult to predict and prepare for. Yet, education is doing just that. At the 18th Biennial EARLI Conference and the accompanying 23rd Conference of the Junior Researchers of EARLI, researchers in learning and instruction from all over the world come together to discuss current research findings. In order to think tomorrow’s education and education research, it is crucial to relate new findings to what we already know and elaborate how this will help foster sustainable learning processes and navigating what is yet to come.
Dates: August 10th-11th (JURE 2019) and 12th -16th (EARLI 2019)
Website: https://earli.org/EARLI2019
Full Program: here
Conference App guidebook (IOS): https://apps.apple.com/de/app/guidebook/id428713847 PASSPHRASE: earli2019
Conference App guidebook (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.guidebook.android&hl=de PASSPHRASE: earli2019
May 222019
Meet the EARLI Journal Editors at the EARLI Conference 2019
Session E: 1 Meet the EARLI Journal Editors
Date: 13.8.2019
Time: 10:15 – 11:45
Room: Lecture Hall – H06
Conference Website: https://www.earli.org/EARLI2019
EARLI Journal editors
The EARLI journal editors will introduce the EARLI journals and the EARLI book series. They will inform the audience about specific services and goals of each journal and how to select the right journal for publishing their work. Additionally, some basic guidelines for potential authors will be presented.
EARLI Journals
EARLI publishes three peer-referred journals which are all available for free readership to all members; Learning and Instruction, Educational Research Review and the newest open access journal Frontline Learning Research. Additionally, the EARLI book series, New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction is designed to communicate the high quality research on learning and instruction to a broader audience of researchers and post-graduate students in education and psychology. Earli members are fully encouraged to submit their current research on the association’s journals.
May 162019
The next International Conference on Motivation 2020 will be held at TU Dresden, Germany. The chair will be Susanne Narciss.
This will also be the first joint conference of the EARLI SIGs 8 and 16 in Dresden. The joint conference will be a place to go beyond disciplinary boundaries by sharing and discussing research issues and findings from all fields of Motivation, Emotion, and Metacognition. It will also offer great opportunities for detecting new pathways for collaborations that will contribute to empowering smart learning and instruction in a world of rapid and complex changes.
The ICM 2020 will be held from Thursday 3.9. untill Sunday 6.9.2020, preceded by the Summer School. The conference has one overlapping day with the conference of SIG16 (Metacognition), held from Sunday 6.9. – Tuesday 8.9.2020.
17th International Conference on Motivation (SIG 8): 3. – 6. September 2020
Summer School 2020: 31. August – 2. September 2020
9th International Conference on Metacognition (SIG 16): 6. – 8. September 2020
Location: Dresden – DGUV-Conference Center
Organizers: Faculty of Psychology – TU Dresden, SIG 8 – Motivation and Emotion, SIG 16 – Metacognition
Programm: to be anounced
Website: https://sig8meetssig16-dresden.de/
Registration: to be anounced
May 152019
May 152019
Motivation to Study: 24 Tips for Teachers
Do you experience this sometimes? The students in your seminars are bored, lethargic and have no desire to follow your lessons? You do not know how to increase the motivation to study?
Then I have 24 tips for you, how to increase the motivation to study! These tips are derived from my recent research projects and the Integrated Learning and Action from:
Motivation to study: The beginning
In the beginning, students need to realize what to expect. You can support this internalization process by providing in-depth information about the learning topic. The students can then establish a first learning orientation for themselves. They should be more or less aware of where their own strengths and weaknesses lie. The focus should be on the learning process and not so much on the content. Learning should always be a self-transformation. Another favorable prerequisite for a motivation to study are free choices, such as the learning topic. This promotes the autonomy experience and increases the basic motivation to learn by assuming responsibility.
Workshop on Motivating to Study: Tips for Teachers
Are you interested in this topic? You can book an one-day Workshop for university teachers.
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May 102019
reMarkable Test – What is a reMarkable?
A reMarkable looks and feels like a big E-book reader. The display of the reMarkable is a very readable LCD liquid crystal display: black writing on a light gray background. The real secret of the reMarkable lies in the nature of its surface: it is a rough plastic. In combination with the fiber tip of the reMarkable pen, this results in a writing feeling that is very close to writing with a pencil on paper.
What can you do with a reMarkable?
Mainly writing – and in all variations: with line support or blank or on a number of other templates. It would also be possible to draw – such as small mind maps. The writing process is supported by different types of pencils and three eraser functions – also with a very practical aera fuction. You can use different planes for editing – this is especially handy for commenting PDF documents or E-books in E-PUB format.
How does the reMarkable fit into the “normal” workflow?
With the reMarkable APP, which runs equally well on PC and mobile phone and tablet, the documents are synchronized (tested with Windows 10 and lOS) The documents that were created on the reMarkable are immediately assssible on the PC and can be exported as picture or PDF. Conversely, you can drag and drop PDF documents and e-pub files into the reMarkable app and then immediately process them on the reMarkable. On the reMarkable there is also a fonts recognition feature available (this text was also created on the reMarkable).
The results of this text recognition is very good with normal wording and works almost as well for the German language as for the English. However, the results of the speech recognition can not be saved so far and must be further processed by mail.
reMarkable Test Technique
Inside the reMarkable is a 1GHz ARM -19 with 512MB DDR 3L RAM and 8GB memory. The Codex operating system, which is based on Linux, masters all tasks without delay. The e-ink display works with a resolution of 1827 × 1404 dots on a 10.3 “diagonal, which corresponds to a resolution of 226 DPI A beautiful display that is completely sufficient for writing A backlight is not present The speed of the E-ink displays is of course – due to the design – something sluggish, which is noticeable in the construction of new pages – something like an e-book reader.The battery with 3000 mA can be charged via micro USB and lasts for several days, the pen does not need power, and at the end has a small storage for a replacement tip – very handy.
reMarkable Test – Conclusion
All the details of the reMarkable are really well thought out. You realize that the developers have gone to great lengths to think about everything.
But most importantly, it’s fun to write with. And although I can type with 10 fingers quickly, I prefer writing with a pen. The reMarkable has replaced all my notebooks after a short time. ☺ And that actually says it all. A clear buy recommendation for those who need a lot of writing and prefer to work with a pen rather than a keyboard.
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Apr 302019
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Jul 262018
Presentations from the fifth biennial SIG22 Neuroscience and Education conference
Monday 4th – Wednesday 6th June 2018
London, United Kingdom
SIG 22 brings together researchers from the fields of educational science, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, genetics, and neuroscience as well as interdisciplinary people with training in each of these fields, all of which investigate human learning and development. Taking interdisciplinarity as a basic principle, the SIG conceives the relation between educational research and neuroscience as a two-way street with rich bi-directional and reciprocal interactions between educational research and (cognitive) neuroscience.
10 Presentations in total:
INTRODUCING NEUROSCIENCE INTO INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION
Paul Howard-Jones, Konstantina Ioannou and the PGCE team, Shu Yau and *Tim Jay
University of Bristol, Sheffield-Hallam University
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Jul 252018
Motivated learning
First of all, one might wonder if motivated learning is necessary at all. Is is not possible to learn without motivation? At least as far as short-term learning success is concerned, this question must be answered positively: it is possible to successfully learn without motivation. However, the empirical results from our “Zeitlast” (workload) studies also show that such a learning outcome without motivation is usually accompanied by a greater perceived effort and a higher objective time requirement. It may also be assumed that the acquired knowledge content is less accessible – in particular, that the transfer to new situations is disrupted resulting in some inertia of the knowledge thus acquired.
Conversely, it can be inferred that motivated learning requires less personal effort, is more time-effective and the resulting knowledge is more universally applicable.
These advantages of motivated learning are directly related to the fact that intrinsic motivation is linked to the self-system “extension memory” already described in the blogpost 1 “Descartes’ Error“. The right hemispheric extension memory accompanies and enables the internalization processes necessary to perform a learning task with intrinsic motivation.
Here, the extension memory has a threefold function:
- It allows feeling the fit between learning tasks and the learner and thus creating a first internalization of the learning task. Subsequently, an ascription of responsibility for the learning task can be developed.
- The extension memory also accompanies the experience of self-efficacy. In particular, whether a particular learning method or learning strategy really suits you.
- In the actual performing of the learning action, the extension memory will assess whether I continue to feel comfortable with the concrete learning processes.
The activation of the extension memory in the learning process is thus the prerequisite for a holistic association of the self with all phases of the learning process. A large correspondence between the self and the learning regulation will trigger the effects of an intrinsic motivation:
- Learning is easy and time flies by (flow experience).
- Through a high degree of associations with the self-system many methods can be associated that can be used flexibly during the learning process.
- A close connection with the self-system also enables a better self-motivation, which allows a constructive handling of setbacks and, if necessary, guarantees a longer study of the subject matter.
- Finally, strong associations of the acquired knowledge with the self-system result in a more flexible retrieval of the knowledge content in different situations and thus promotes a high retention performance.
The next blog post will explain how a learning environment can be designed in such a way that the highest possible intrinsic motivation for learning can emerge (motivated design).
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Jul 172018
Ivan Blažetić Šumski
Let’s do a simple thought experiment: when I think of violence, am I a criminal? When I think of giving presents to someone else, am I a benefactor?
Even in this simple thought experiment, it becomes clear that conscious thinking can always focus on just one point – just as speaking does. Does this one focus defines human being? Hardly likely.
Balthasar Moncornet
What constitutes humanity much more is the sum of the experiences of a human being. This wealth of experiences could therefore be considered as being human.
The exciting question is now how we draw on this wealth of experience. Certainly, we can consciously remember a single event in our past. However, does that help us to recognize who we are?
There is one system that is able to assess the vast majority of personal experiences at once. Personality psychologist Julius Kuhl calls this system “extension memory”. This system can assess a person’s wealth of experience in a parallel and holistic way and gives a feeling as a result of this assessment.
This self-system or so-called extension memory becomes especially important when it comes to assessing and evaluating social interaction in a matter of seconds. For example, when I meet a person I did not know before, after a very short time I know how to judge that person.
Maybe this first assessment is not very accurate. But at least it gives an indication of how I should deal with this person in the future. Thus, the extension memory is capable of retrieving all associations with a new person within a very short period of time and of pooling those associations in a feeling for that person. Therefore, if everything goes well, within a few moments I know if I can trust this person. Or if I’d rather avoid this new person.
The extension memory is also responsible for a whole series of processes, such as the intrinsic motivation for learning, which we just demonstrated in the current research project Sensomot – read this in the next blog post “motivated learning“.
So we can say with certainty that Descartes was wrong. This sentence might be much more accurate:
“Sentio, ergo sum.” (I feel, therefore I am)
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Jul 042018
The Emerging Field Group initiative is intended to support researchers active in innovative and exciting fields. EARLI Emerging Field Groups (EFG) consist of a small group of internationally active researchers working in the field of learning and instruction active within a new, emerging field of research. EARLI offers these researchers the opportunity to work together during a short but intense period of time to explore the possibilities in their shared field of interest.
EFGs are intended for exploratory, innovative and risk-taking approaches. Being part of an Emerging Field Group allows for its participants to focus on experimental and new fields of research, with an emphasis on exploration and process rather than output and product.
Following a lengthy evaluation procedure, four applications have been granted the EARLI Emerging Field Group funding for 2018 – 2020.
Portable Brain Technologies in Educational Neuroscience Research
led by Nienke van Atteveldt, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The Potential of Biophysiology for Understanding Learning and Teaching Experiences
led by Lars-Erik Malmberg, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Unifying Cognitive Load and Self-Regulated Learning Research: Monitoring and Regulation of Effort (MRE)
led by Anique de Bruin, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
EarlyWritePro: Developing Methods for Understanding Early Writing through Analysis of Process Dysfluencies
led by Mark Torrance, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
The first two EARLI emerging field groups nominees show that triangulation and combination of new data sources like portable EEG and other physiological data promise new insights into learning and regulation processes. It can be expected that these emerging fields will gain strength within in the scientific community for the next years.
Jun 052018
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Dec 012017
It is creeping back … always.
The Concept of Learning Outcomes Often Follows Behaviourist Tradtion
Learning outcomes as a concept has encountered a revival since the beginning of the Bologna process in 1999. The concept itself has a longer history with its roots in the behaviourist tradition of the 1960s. The goal of this review is to study how the historical roots of learning outcomes are noted in current research articles since the launch of the Bologna process and whether the concept of learning outcomes is used critically or uncritically. The review of 90 articles shows that the behaviourist tradition is still evident in the 21st century research with 29% of the articles directly and 11% indirectly referring uncritically to the respective publications or to the behaviourist epistemology.
Citation: Murtonen, M., Gruber, H., & Lehtinen, E. (2017). The return of behaviourist epistemology: A review of learning outcomes studies. Educational Research Review, 22(Supplement C), 114-128.
Find the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2017.08.001
Find more interesting articles here.
Nov 202017
Test-taking behavior is influenced by both the to-be assessed competency and individual test-taking engagement. Test-taking behavior is used to draw inferences about competency (response data) and can also be used to judge test-taking engagement (response time data). The expectancy of solving an item successfully and the personal value of taking the test are considered antecedents of test-taking engagement.
Conditioning factors of test‑taking engagement in PIAAC: an exploratory IRT modelling approach considering person and item characteristics
Background
A potential problem of low-stakes large-scale assessments such as the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is low test-taking engagement. The present study pursued two goals in order to better understand conditioning factors of test-taking disengagement: First, a model-based
approach was used to investigate whether item indicators of disengagement consti-tute a continuous latent person variable by domain. Second, the effects of person and item characteristics were jointly tested using explanatory item response models.
Methods
Analyses were based on the Canadian sample of Round 1 of the PIAAC, with N= 26,683 participants completing test items in the domains of literacy, numeracy, and problem solving. Binary item disengagement indicators were created by means of item response time thresholds.
Results
The results showed that disengagement indicators define a latent dimension by domain. Disengagement increased with lower educational attainment, lower
cognitive skills, and when the test language was not the participant’s native language. Gender did not exert any effect on disengagement, while age had a positive effect for problem solving only. An item’s location in the second of two assessment modules was positively related to disengagement, as was item difficulty. The latter effect was negatively moderated by cognitive skill, suggesting that poor test-takers are especially likely to disengage with more difficult items.
Conclusions:
The negative effect of cognitive skill, the positive effect of item difficulty, and their negative interaction effect support the assumption that disengagement is
the outcome of individual expectations about success (informed disengagement).
Full Article:
Goldhammer, F., Martens, T. & Luedtke, O. (2017). Conditioning factors of test-taking engagement in PIAAC: an exploratory IRT modelling approach considering person and item characteristics. Large-scale Assessments in Education, 5, 18. DOI: 10.1186/s40536-017-0051-9 [html, pdf]
Please find other publications here.
Nov 102017
This new and free Handbook of Learning Analytics covers a broad sprectrum of topics including Emotion (from Sidney D’Mello) and Self-Regulated Learning (from Philip Winne).
This book is edited by Charles Lang, George Siemens, Alyssa Wise & Dragan Gašević
The full book can be downloaded for free here (CC BY 4.0)
Citation: Lang, C., Siemens, G., Wise, A., & Gašević, D. (Eds.). (2017). The Handbook of Learning Analytics. Society for Learning Analytics Research.
ISBN: 978-0-9952408-0-3
DOI: 10.18608/hla17
Find the table of content here.
Nov 082017
Buildung on the central contributions of Julius Kuhl like the PSI Theory leading researchers including Charles S. Carver and Richard M. Ryan reflect the implications for their own work.
This book is edited by Nicola Baumann, Miguel Kazén, Markus Quirin & Sander L. Koole
The first chapter can be dowloaded here.
The book ISBN: 9780889375406 can be bought here.
Citation: Baumann, N., Kazén, M., Quirin, M., & Koole, S. L. (Eds.). (2018). Why People Do the Things They Do. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Please find the table of content here.
Apr 062017
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Aug 032016
Please find some RSS feeds from important journals in the field of motivation, learning, higher education and computer here.
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Jul 282016
Thomas Martens conducted a workshop on 30 June 2016 at the TU Dresden with the title “Fostering Learning at University: the Heterogeneity of Motivational Processes”. This workshop showed different ways of learning motivation and how the individual learning processes of students can be promoted. 
As theoretical basis served the Integrated Model of Learning and Action (IMLA) which divides the typical processes of learning in three main phases (motivation, intention and volition phase) and defines the relationship to the findings in neuro science from Julius Kuhl (2000).
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Jul 272016
At the conference of “Bildung und Begabung” [Education & Giftedness] 31 May 2016 with the title “Perspektive Begabung: Diversität als Chance” [Future of Giftedness: Diversity as an Opportunity] Thomas Martens delivered a keynote entitled “Motivation and Educational Perspectives of Gifted Children”.
While one child follows his interests and develops remarkable skills herein, the other child seems rather lackluster and disinterested. Researcher have long been agreed that motivation is a driving factor when giftedness is translated into performance. As different as young people are so different are their motivation profiles. Family, friends, and teachers – they all influence the development of motivation. This can be promoted by empathetic caregivers or be attenuated in critical phases of life. How can we, in the face of these different conditions, support children and young people developing motivation and regulating them properly? How can school or other learning environments handle these motivation processes? What help can be offered?
A podcast of this talk is online (german only):
Jul 262016
This chapter discusses transitions towards learning at university from a perspective of regulation processes. The Integrated Model of Learning and Action is used to identity different patterns of motivational regulation amongst first-year students at university by using mixed distribution models. Five subpopulations of motivational regulation could be identified: students with self-determined, pragmatic, strategic, negative and anxious learning motivation. Findings about these patterns can be used to design didactic measures to support students’ learning processes.
Please find a preview of this chapter here.
Please cite this chapter as: Martens, T. & Metzger C. (in press). Different Transitions of Learning at University: Exploring the Heterogeneity of Motivational Processes. Erscheint in E. Kyndt, V. Donche, K. Trigwell & S. Lindblom-Ylänne (Eds.), Higher Education Transitions: Theory and Research. EARLI Book Series “New Perspecitves on Learning and Instruction”. London: Routledge.
Jun 132016
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Apr 012016
New research projekt started: Sensor Measures of Motivation for Adaptive Learning (SensoMot)
Motivation is one major factor for facilitating deep learning processes. The goal of the research project „SensoMot“ is to predict critical motivational conditions using sensor measures. By deriving adaptive mechanisms, the learning process can subsequently be tailored to the motivational needs of the learner (project description).
Jul 032015
This article examines conditions for a successful motivation for education and training: Why can many teenagers and young adults easily motivate themselves for schools and education, while other show serious motivational difficulties? On the base of identified motivational processes measures are suggested that educational institutions can provide.
[http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-109762] [pdf]
(available in German language only – sorry!!!)