Student control over learning

Overview

Influence: Student control over learning
Domain: Student Learning Strategies
Sub-Domain: Student-focused interventions
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
Influence Definition: Involves students taking responsibility for their own instruction, their pace of learning, how much time they spend on learning each step, and control over where to go next in their learning.

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Journal of Educational Computing Research	Niemiec, Sikorski, & Walberg	Learner-control effects: a review of reviews and a meta-analysis	1996	Student control over learning in ICT	24	NA	24	-0.03
Psychological Bulletin	Patall, Cooper, & Robinson	The effects of choice on intrinsic motivation and related outcomes: a meta-analysis of research findings	2008	Control over learning on subsequent control	41	NA	14	0.10
Review of Educational Research	Karich, Burns, & Maki	Updated meta-analysis of learner control within educational technology	2014	Control over learning in ICT	18	3,618	29	0.05
Human factors	Carolan, Hutchins, & Wickens	Costs and benefits of more learner freedom: Meta-analyses of exploratory and learner control training methods.	2014	Control over learning	40	NA	144	0.02
Dissertation	Parsons	A meta-analysis of learner control in computer-based learning environments.	1992	Control over learning in ICT	41	4,375	94	-0.04
Journal of Business Psychology	Landers & Reddock	A meta-analytic investigation of objective learner control in web-based instruction.	2017	Control over learning in ICT	62	2,014	78	0.02
TOTAL/AVERAGE						226	10,007	383	0.02