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The 2016 Student Academic Experience Survey
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Neves, Jonathan; Hillman, Nick – Higher Education Academy, 2016
The Higher Education Policy Institute and Higher Education Academy (HEPI-HEA) "Student Academic Experience Survey" has been running since 2006 and shows how full-time undergraduates rate their time in higher education and their attitudes towards policy issues that impact upon them. The Survey has been designed and developed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, National Surveys, Higher Education
Writing Apprehension: Implications for Teaching, Writing, and Concept Clarity.
Weiss, R. H.; Walters, S. A. – 1980
A study of the relationship between the quantity of writing assignments and writing apprehension involved 352 college students enrolled in 20 classes in eight discipline areas. Writing apprehension was measured by using the Daly-Miller writing apprehension inventory as a pretest and posttest. Tasks involving learning-centered writing (writing…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Higher Education, Learning Theories, Student Attitudes
The Effectiveness of Verbal Self-Guidance as a Transfer of Training Intervention: Its Impact on Presentation Performance, Self Efficacy and Anxiety
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Brown, Travor; Morrissey, Lynn – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2004
We developed a verbal self-guidance (VSG) training program as a transfer of training intervention (i.e., an intervention designed to enhance the application and usage of skills learned in a training session post-training). We then assessed the impact of this training on presentation performance, self-efficacy (i.e., task-specific confidence) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Training Methods, Transfer of Training, Anxiety
The Relationship between Foreign Language Anxiety and Learning Difficulties
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Chen, Tsai-Yu; Chang, Goretti B. Y. – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
This study investigated the possible existence of causal links between anxiety and language learning difficulties by using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) (Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope, 1986) to examine anxiety and the Foreign Language Screening Instrument for Colleges (FLSI-C) (Ganschow & Sparks, 1991) to explore learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Higher Education
Problems of Undergraduate Students on a Large University Campus: Comparisons on the Basis of Sex, Grades, Year in School, and Help Seeking.
Sandling, Gery T.; Stafford, Thomas H., Jr. – 1976
During the 1974-75 academic year at the North Carolina State University, the frequency and types of difficulties experienced by undergraduates enrolled at the school were investigated. Other study objectives were to determine whether different subgroups within the student population would exhibit more problems in a particular area than in others,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Career Planning, Counseling Services
The American College Teacher: National Norms for the 1995-96 HERI Faculty Survey.
Sax, Linda J.; And Others – 1996
This report summarizes the highlights of a national survey, part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, which examined college faculty demographic and biographic information, how faculty members spend their time, how they interact with students, their preferred methods of teaching and examining students, their perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Aging in Academia, Anxiety, Biographical Inventories, Church Related Colleges