Information and Learning Sciences: Volume 123 Issue 9/10

The kids are alright: adolescents’ experiences during COVID-19 disruption

Irene Lopatovska, Radhika Garg, Olivia Turpin, Ji Hee Yoon, Laura Vroom, Diedre Brown

This study aimed to understand adolescents’ experiences, negative feelings and coping mechanisms associated with the major disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose…

Can an angry pedagogical agent enhance mental effort and learning performance in a multimedia learning environment?

Tze Wei Liew, Su-Mae Tan, Si Na Kew

This study aims to examine if a pedagogical agent’s expressed anger, when framed as a feedback cue, can enhance mental effort and learning performance in a multimedia learning…

The technical matters: young children debugging (with) tangible coding toys

Deborah Silvis, Victor R. Lee, Jody Clarke-Midura, Jessica F. Shumway

Much remains unknown about how young children orient to computational objects and how we as learning scientists can orient to young children as computational thinkers. While some…

Exploring learning opportunities for students in open data portal use across data literacy levels

Ak Wai Li, Luanne S. Sinnamon, Rick Kopak

The purpose of this study is to explore open data portals as data literacy learning environments. The authors examined the obstacles faced and strategies used by university…

School enculturation discourse: a meta synthesis from research in the learning sciences

Yotam Hod, Ornit Sagy

Enculturation is a central and defining idea within socioculturally minded research that informs the design of school learning environments. Now, three decades since the idea has…