Learner profiles in secondary education: Occurrence and relationship with performance and student characteristics |
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Authors: | Amélie Rogiers Emmelien Merchie Hilde Van Keer |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Educational Studies, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;2. Department of Educational Studies, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6679-2907 |
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Abstract: | The authors explore the occurrence of different learner profiles in secondary education, as well as their relationship with test performance and student characteristics. Based on a cluster analysis of 1,931 secondary school students’ self-reported text-learning strategy use and study traces, the authors identified and validated four distinct learner profiles: integrated strategy users, information organizers, mental learners, and limited strategy users. Integrated strategy users engaged in different text-learning strategies and obtained the highest scores on the performance test. Limited strategy users generally used only a limited number of text-learning strategies and scored the lowest. In addition, a significant difference was established in gender and reading ability distribution across learner profiles, but home language distribution was not found to be significant. |
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Keywords: | Text-learning strategies learner profiles study traces secondary education |
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