Cindy De Smet's portfolio

Category: PhD

  • Differential impact of learning path based versus conventional instruction in science education

    This article ‘Differential impact of learning path based versus conventional instruction in science education‘, analyzes the differential impact of the instructional formats on learning outcomes, considering variations in group setting and group composition. Given the focus on science learning, gender was also considered. Multilevel analysis was applied, and the results show empirical evidence for superior…

  • A Qualitative Study on Learning and Teaching With Learning Paths in a Learning Management System

    This article, ‘A Qualitative Study on Learning and Teaching With Learning Paths in a Learning Management System‘, presents the findings of a qualitative study (carried out between 2011 and 2013) about the adoption and implementation of learning paths within a Learning Management System (LMS). Sixteen secondary school biology teachers of the GO! Network in Flanders…

  • What are the biggest design challenges you faced? #OutstandingMOOC

    I’m enrolled in a MOOC where we are encouraged to reflect upon questions such as: “What’s the biggest design challenge that you have ever faced? Did you overcome it? How? “ I have experience with design projects on two educational levels: secondary education and higher education. My experience with both levels is more or less the same:…

  • Ontwerp- en implementatiekenmerken van leerpaden binnen een Elektronische Leeromgeving

    Deze paper, gepresenteerd tijdens de Onderwijs Research dagen, beschrijft de vier studies die werden uitgevoerd in het kader van mijn doctoraatsonderzoek naar de ontwerp- en implementatiekenmerken van leerpaden binnen een ELO (Elektronische Leeromgeving). Please cite as: Cindy De Smet, Martin Valcke, Tammy Schellens & Bram De Wever. Design and implementation characteristics of learning paths in…

  • Download my dissertation

    Don’t know what to read this summer? How about reading a dissertation? If this sounds like heaven to you, you are welcome to journey yourself through this incredibly exciting work 🙂 “Using a learning management system in secondary education: Design and implementation characteristics of learning paths”

  • Doctor of Educational Sciences

        It has been a great adventure. But now, 7 years later, I’m happy I finally arrived at my destination and became doctor of educational sciences! I’ve got lots of ideas for the future, but first things first. I will take some days off to rest and to celebrate after all those years of…

  • The design and implementation of learning paths in a learning management system

    This article, ‘The design and implementation of learning paths in a learning management system’, investigates whether a particular design and implementation of learning paths has a beneficial impact on learning outcomes, and gender as a co-variables. It reports on the results of empirical research about using learning paths in a secondary education setting. The quasi-experimental study…

  • Researching instructional use and the technology acceptation of learning management systems

    This paper researches the technology acceptation of LMS by secondary school teachers, based on a conceptual acceptance model including: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and subjective norm (traditional TAM2 components), personal innovativeness towards IT (Agarwal & Prasad, 1998), internal ICT support (Tondeur, Van Keer, van Braak, & Valcke, 2008), and experience (Sun & Zhang,…