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Tuononen, Tarja; Parpala, Anna; Mattsson, Markus; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
University students often work during their studies, and working is considered to be one reason for high dropout rates or slow progress in studies. Moreover, the nature of students' work experience varies greatly. The study aimed to explore how working while studying is related to study success, and took approaches to learning and the nature of…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Student Employment, Work Experience, Education Work Relationship
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Postareff, Liisa; Parpala, Anna; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari – Learning Environments Research, 2015
The study explored factors explaining changes in a deep approach to learning. The data consisted of interviews with 12 students from four Bachelor-level courses representing different disciplines. We analysed and compared descriptions of students whose deep approach either increased, decreased or remained relatively unchanged during their courses.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Bachelors Degrees, Learning Processes, Educational Environment
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Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari; Saariaho, Emmi; Inkinen, Mikko; Haarala-Muhonen, Anne; Hailikari, Telle – Frontline Learning Research, 2015
The study explored university undergraduates' dilatory behaviour, more precisely, procrastination and strategic delaying. Using qualitative interview data, we applied a theory-driven and person-oriented approach to test the theoretical model of Klingsieck (2013). The sample consisted of 28 Bachelor students whose study pace had been slow during…
Descriptors: Time Management, Undergraduate Students, Interviews, Student Behavior