Learning from errors: A model of individual processes

Errors bear the potential to improve knowledge acquisition, provided that learners are able to deal with them in an adaptive and reflexive manner. However, learners experience a host of different—often impeding or maladaptive—emotional and motivational states in the face of academic errors. Research...

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Main Authors: Maria Tulis, Gabriele Steuer, Markus Dresel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EARLI 2016-04-01
Series:Frontline Learning Research
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Online Access:https://journals.sfu.ca/flr/index.php/journal/article/view/168
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Gabriele Steuer
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description Errors bear the potential to improve knowledge acquisition, provided that learners are able to deal with them in an adaptive and reflexive manner. However, learners experience a host of different—often impeding or maladaptive—emotional and motivational states in the face of academic errors. Research has made few attempts to develop a theory that focuses on learning from errors (with the exceptions of the theory of impasse-driven learning and the theory of negative knowledge) and, in particular, a theoretical framework that focuses on antecedent motivational processes. By integrating theories of self-regulated learning, volition, attributions, and appraisals, we propose a model that highlights individual processes that are characteristic of this specific learning phenomenon. More precisely, our theoretical framework aims to explain how emotional, motivational and self-regulatory processes—influenced by personal and contextual conditions—interact in order to facilitate or impede adaptive dealing with errors and appropriate metacognitions and cognitive activities. Our objective is to provide a framework that allows for the systematic integration of various aspects that have been targeted in previous research and to guide and stimulate future research on learning from errors. As a first evidence for validation, we summarise research findings that address specific parts of the proposed model.
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spelling doaj.art-796a05e59d8f42f4884fd8a7c14bf79b2022-12-22T00:14:35ZengEARLIFrontline Learning Research2295-31592016-04-014210.14786/flr.v4i2.168Learning from errors: A model of individual processesMaria Tulis0Gabriele Steuer1Markus Dresel2University of Augsburg Universitätsstr. 10 86159 Augsburg, GermanyUniversity of AugsburgUniversity of AugsburgErrors bear the potential to improve knowledge acquisition, provided that learners are able to deal with them in an adaptive and reflexive manner. However, learners experience a host of different—often impeding or maladaptive—emotional and motivational states in the face of academic errors. Research has made few attempts to develop a theory that focuses on learning from errors (with the exceptions of the theory of impasse-driven learning and the theory of negative knowledge) and, in particular, a theoretical framework that focuses on antecedent motivational processes. By integrating theories of self-regulated learning, volition, attributions, and appraisals, we propose a model that highlights individual processes that are characteristic of this specific learning phenomenon. More precisely, our theoretical framework aims to explain how emotional, motivational and self-regulatory processes—influenced by personal and contextual conditions—interact in order to facilitate or impede adaptive dealing with errors and appropriate metacognitions and cognitive activities. Our objective is to provide a framework that allows for the systematic integration of various aspects that have been targeted in previous research and to guide and stimulate future research on learning from errors. As a first evidence for validation, we summarise research findings that address specific parts of the proposed model. https://journals.sfu.ca/flr/index.php/journal/article/view/168Learning from ErrorsSelf-regulationMotivationEmotion
spellingShingle Maria Tulis
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Emotion
title Learning from errors: A model of individual processes
title_full Learning from errors: A model of individual processes
title_fullStr Learning from errors: A model of individual processes
title_full_unstemmed Learning from errors: A model of individual processes
title_short Learning from errors: A model of individual processes
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topic Learning from Errors
Self-regulation
Motivation
Emotion
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