What makes an online learning journal powerful for VET? Distinguishing productive usage patterns and effective learning strategies

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 5 Contributions to the learners’ overall grades at the final exams by various groups of variables extracted from LearnDoc

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Intercept	4.713	4.585	4.586
Precocity of use of LearnDoc^a	.223**	.228**	.222**
Richness of use^b		.195**	.149
Reflection on one’s mastery^c			.163
Adjusted R2	.042	.073	.091
N	132	132	132
F-statistic	6.812***	6.195***	5.394***

Italic values indicate significance of p value (p < 0.05) **p < .05; ***p < .01
^aRatio between the number of recipes completed halfway in the training and the final number of recipes in the recipe book at the end of training
^bFinal number of recipes with ideal pictures in the recipe book
^cTotal number of metacognitive learning strategies in learners’ learning journals at the end of their training