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The Effects of Using Tablet PCs on Student Self-regulated Learning and Learning Achievement

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Blended Learning: Re-thinking and Re-defining the Learning Process. (ICBL 2021)

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This study aimed to investigate the effects of using tablet PCs on junior high school students’ self-regulated learning and learning achievement in Chinese language courses. An experiment was conducted using a sample of 100 students from two classes of a junior high school in Northwest China. One class, as the experimental group, employed an instructional approach with tablet PCs. Other class, as the control group, used a traditional lecture-based approach without the tablet PCs. Students in the two classes studied Chinese language courses for two months. The results showed that the students with tablet PCs have significantly higher learning achievement and self-regulated learning abilities than those of students without tablet PCs.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61907019).

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    Yinghui Shi, Qiuyu Pu, Ling Chen, Kexin Jia & Harrison Hao Yang

  2. State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, 13126, USA

    Harrison Hao Yang

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Shi, Y., Pu, Q., Chen, L., Jia, K., Yang, H.H. (2021). The Effects of Using Tablet PCs on Student Self-regulated Learning and Learning Achievement. In: Li, R., Cheung, S.K.S., Iwasaki, C., Kwok, LF., Kageto, M. (eds) Blended Learning: Re-thinking and Re-defining the Learning Process.. ICBL 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12830. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80504-3_22

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