How to Improve Students' Academic Performance: A Perspective of Learning and Teaching Strategies

doi:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2020.03.009

Abstract

Abstract: From the perspective of learning and teaching strategies, and based on a large-scale evaluation data of a province in eastern China, this paper explores what kind of teaching and learning strategies can more effectively improve the academic performance of primary and secondary school students. The results of the multi-level linear regression models show that cognitive strategies (CS), metacognitive strategies (MS) and inquiry strategies (IS) can significantly improve students' performance, among which CS have the greatest effect; individualized teaching strategies (ITS), participatory teaching strategies (PTS) and guided-inquiry teaching strategies (GTS) can significantly improve students' performance, and GTS have the greatest effect. The quasi-experimental design of CEM shows that teaching strategies can significantly promote the improvement of various learning strategies, especially for primary students' CS and MS and junior students' MS.

Key words: academic performance, learning strategies, teaching strategies, Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM)

Tang Yipeng, Wang Chuang, Hu Yongmei. How to Improve Students' Academic Performance: A Perspective of Learning and Teaching Strategies[J]. Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences), 2020, 38(3): 93-105.

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