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Biwer, Felicitas; de Bruin, Anique; Persky, Adam – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Recent research shows the importance to teach students the self-regulated use of effective learning strategies at university. However, the effects of such training programs on students' metacognitive knowledge, use of learning strategies, and academic performance in the longer term are unknown. In the present study, all first-year pharmacology…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Training, Study Habits, Student Behavior
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Rebecca Clayton Bernard; Gilles Kermarrec – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
This study examined how peer assessment and self-assessment influence higher education students' use of three modes of regulation of learning (self-regulation, co-regulation, and socially shared regulation) in an online collaborative task during the COVID-19 epidemic. Twenty-one first-year undergraduate students were assigned to one of three…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Peer Evaluation, Peer Relationship, Student Evaluation
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Lishchynska, Maryna; Palmer, Catherine; Lacey, Seán; O'Connor, Declan – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
Taught to non-mathematics undergraduates (business, science, engineering, and other technical programs), service mathematics is commonly associated with poor exam performance and low skill/knowledge attainment. The primary objective of the present study was to examine the range of factors thought to impact mathematics performance in higher…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Mathematics Achievement, College Freshmen, Introductory Courses
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Marley, Scott C.; Wilcox, M. Jeanne – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study examines family and peer academic social supports as correlates of academic motivation and first-semester GPA. Design/methodology/approach: Using a correlational design, 468 first-semester college students completed an online survey. Demographic characteristics, high school GPA and first-semester GPA were gathered from…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Peer Relationship, College Freshmen, Student Motivation
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Langanani Rakhunwana; Angelique Kritzinger; Lynne A. Pilcher – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
During their first year of study at university, many students encounter challenges in developing learning strategies that align with success in the courses in which they are enrolled. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic heightened the challenges as universities were compelled to transition to online learning. Therefore, this study investigated…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Online Courses, College Freshmen
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Martinie, Marie-Amélie; Potocki, Anna; Broc, Lucie; Larigauderie, Pascale – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
Procrastination could be conceptualized as a self-regulation failure. However, it is still not clear what type of self-regulation processes are precisely underlying the students' tendency to procrastinate. The main objective of our study was therefore to predict variations in academic procrastination by considering two constructs related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Time Management, Predictor Variables
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Sihan Zhou; Gene Thompson; Sirui Zhou – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This longitudinal study explores changes in self-efficacy and motivational beliefs for learners beginning to study via English-medium instruction (EMI) at a transnational university in China. Following first-year local Chinese students over their first semester of learning via EMI, the study focuses on changes in learner self-efficacy beliefs…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen
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Elcin, Deniz; Sahinkarakas, Sehnaz – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
This study aimed at finding self-regulatory capacity and habits of 3 learners with differing proficiency levels at Translation and Interpretation department of a State university in Turkey. This is a multiple case study and longitudinal in nature in which the process of vocabulary learning was observed in three subsequent school terms. The…
Descriptors: Self Management, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Noordzij, Gera; Wijnia, Lisette – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of perceived problem quality in the relationship between students' (N = 226) achievement goals and autonomous motivation to study in a problem-based learning (PBL) environment. Specifically, the relationships between students' achievement goals (mastery-approach, performance-approach,…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Problem Based Learning, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement
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Krsmanovic, Masha – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2021
This research examined the role of a first-year seminar course in promoting international student learning and academic transition. Through interviews with international students representing different countries and majors, the author investigated how the course can best be designed and taught to overcome the common learning barriers encountered…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes
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Insua, Glenda M.; Lantz, Catherine; Armstrong, Annie – Communications in Information Literacy, 2018
Effectively integrating the ACRL "Framework for Information Literacy" into existing instructional models requires that librarians first understand the host of challenges that many first-year students encounter when conducting research for the first time. This study employs qualitative analysis of semi-structured student interviews to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Information Literacy, Student Research, Freshman Composition
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Barbosa, Joselina; Silva, Álvaro; Ferreira, Maria Amélia; Severo, Milton – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2018
One of the most important factors that makes the transition from secondary school to medical school challenging is the inability to put in the study time that a medical school curriculum demands. The implementation of regulated learning is essential for students to cope with medical course environment and succeed. This study aimed to investigate…
Descriptors: Correlation, Longitudinal Studies, Secondary School Students, Medical Students
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Van den Broeck, L.; De Laet, T.; Lacante, M.; Pinxten, M.; Van Soom, C.; Langie, G. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
To stimulate a flexible lifelong learning system students can enter university via lateral entry. Unlike traditional first-year students, lateral entrance students are not well-studied. Therefore this study focuses on comparing first-year students with a specific group of lateral entrants, namely bridging students at the Faculty of Engineering…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, College Freshmen, Engineering, Engineering Education
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Hahn, Bryan – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2018
English language learners seek strong speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills. When it comes to the last it is commonly assumed that if students have many opportunities to hear spoken English then that exposure will improve their ability to comprehend it. Unfortunately, this is often not the case since many second language learners do not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Listening Skills, Connected Discourse
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Junus, Kasiyah; Suhartanto, Heru; R-Suradijono, Sri Hartati; Santoso, Harry Budi; Sadita, Lia – Journal of Educators Online, 2019
An online discussion forum has the potential to facilitate collaborative learning that improves students' critical thinking. To explain the collaborative online learning experience, the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model has been proposed by a group of researchers. The model captures an in-depth and meaningful collaborative online learning process…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking
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