Estimation of optimal degree of student autonomy in laboratory and classroom
2013
Romanenko, V., North-Western Inst. of Printing Matters (Russian Federation) | Nikitina, G., Academy of Information Technologies in Education (Russian Federation). North-Western Branch
Creativity of students in the laboratory and classroom depends on the degree of his or her autonomy in the period of solving different educational problems. This degree is connected with the number of independent decisions which the student makes in the period of his or her training. It means the path of problem solving can be divided in several steps. The student has to choose the way of solving each step. This choice can be fully independent or can use any prompt. The fraction of solutions which are fully independent permits one to estimate the degree of student autonomy. This degree depends on the complexity of each choice and the sequence of independent decisions in their set, too. The total number of decisions is connected with the time given by the instructor for problem solving. It is not very high, really. To get success of his or her work the students’ independent decisions must be correct no less than in 80 % cases. The total number of necessary decisions in the laboratory settings in several universities was investigated. The complexity of these decisions was also taken in account. It was found that the degree of student autonomy was practically the same in all studied institutions. That is why we can say that this degree may be determined as the optimal one.
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