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Student Participation in Online Discussion Boards in a Higher Education Setting
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Dalelio, Corinne – International Journal on E-Learning, 2013
To learn more about how learning takes place online, this study outlines and analyzes the micro-level features of the online class discussions of students in a college course. A positive relationship between online participation and student performance was found, in which higher-graded students submitted more messages and engaged in more…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Computer Mediated Communication, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement
Road Maps for Learning: A Guide to the Navigation of Learning Progressions
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Black, Paul; Wilson, Mark; Yao, Shih-Ying – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
The overall aim of this article is to analyze the relationships between the roles of assessment in pedagogy, the interactions between curriculum assessment and pedagogy, and the study of pupils' progression in learning. It is argued that well-grounded evidence of pupils' progressions in learning is crucial to the work of teachers, so that a method…
Descriptors: Evidence, Learning Strategies, Program Effectiveness, Grade 8
The Relationship between College Students' Executive Functioning and Study Strategies
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Petersen, Rebecca; Lavelle, Ellen; Guarino, A. J. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2006
Working from a cognitive perspective, a range of studies have supported the relationship between study strategies and academic performance of college students (e.g., Peverly, Brobst, Graham, & Shaw, 2003). In particular, self-regulatory processes comprised of learner-directed activities geared toward promoting academic achievement have been…
Descriptors: College Students, Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement, Self Management
With History-Social Science for All: Access for Every Student.
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1992
This paper describes six strategies for California teachers to consider in teaching the state's history-social science curriculum to educationally disadvantaged students. The six strategies are: (1) enriching history through literature; (2) connecting history with other learnings; (3) connecting history to personal experience; (4) adapting to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Learning to Learn. Tierra de Oportunidad Module 30. LAES: Latino Adult Education Services Project.
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Kissam, Ed; Dorsey, Holda – 1997
This module, which may be used as the basis for a workshop or as a special topic unit in adult basic education or English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses, addresses learning to learn. It is designed to help instructors explain and demonstrate how learning is part of life and provide a valuable opportunity for them to engage their students in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Knowing What You Know and What You Don't: Further Research on Metacognitive Knowledge Monitoring. Research Report No. 2002-3
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Tobias, Sigmund; Everson, Howard T. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2002
To date the authors have completed 23 studies of knowledge monitoring and its relationship to learning from instruction. Their earlier work, 12 studies in all, is summarized and reported elsewhere (see Tobias and Everson, 1996; Tobias and Everson, 2000). In this paper they continue this line of research and summarize the results of 11 studies that…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Knowledge Level, Learning, Academic Ability