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Yeseul Choi; So Hee Hyun; Seunghyeop Lee – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2025
In higher education research, it is critical to identify and explore factors, experiences, and institutional environments influencing students' academic performance and success. Korean students have the international image as higher achievers and a model minority in their academic performance, and several studies have explained that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, High Achievement, Confucianism
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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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Tam, Angela Choi Fung – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This two-year longitudinal study explores whether a professional learning community (PLC) helps shift language teachers' beliefs about implementing play-based learning. Ten practitioners from a preschool participated in this case study. Data were collected through interviews and observations of participants' practices engaged in the PLC. The…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Preschool Education, Beliefs, Play
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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DeMink-Carthew, Jessica; Netcoh, Steven – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2019
While providing choice can be a powerful way to personalize learning for young adolescents, there is also evidence that choice can be challenging for learners. This study investigated middle school students' (N = 72) feelings about making choices in how they learn during a personalized project. Findings include students' self-reported enjoyment…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Individualized Instruction
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Leber, Jasmin; Renkl, Alexander; Nückles, Matthias; Wäschle, Kristin – Learning: Research and Practice, 2018
According to the model of constructive alignment, learners adjust their learning strategies to the announced assessment (backwash effect). Hence, when teaching for understanding, the assessment method should be aligned with this teaching goal to ensure that learners engage in corresponding learning strategies. A quasi-experimental field study with…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Testing Problems, Educational Objectives, Learning Motivation
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Hopper, Mari K.; Kaiser, Alexis N. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2018
The primary aim of this study was to determine whether levels of student engagement, higher order skill proficiency, and knowledge acquisition demonstrated by medical students would differ when completing the same course in three diverse learning environments. Following Institutional Review Board approval, 56 first-year medical students,…
Descriptors: Physiology, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills, Learner Engagement
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Barnes, Meghan E.; Caprino, Kathryn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Reflection is an increasingly essential component of experience-based learning in higher education to encourage students to draw connections between theoretical and practical knowledge and experiences. This qualitative study examines the reflections of undergraduate students in a service-learning course for secondary English teacher candidates.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Reflection, Taxonomy, Experiential Learning
Coleman, Katherine; Mills, Bethany – Online Submission, 2014
This psychoeducational counselling group is designed to explore the many facets of the emerging female adolescent identity and foster a high level of self-esteem. According to Powell (2004) adolescence is a time, and even more so for females, which can be marked by many identity conflicts and low levels of self-esteem. As such, this 14 week…
Descriptors: Group Counseling, Self Esteem, Adolescents, Females
Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S.; Mohammad, Marwa M. M. – Online Submission, 2016
The general secondary stage in Egypt is a vital educational phase since it plays an essential role in developing students' thinking and learning styles to prepare them for life in general and higher education in particular. Accordingly, it has become urgent and persistent to develop secondary-stage students' critical thinking styles while…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Lifelong Learning, Models, Learning Strategies
Liu, Yunzhen – Online Submission, 2012
This study investigates motivation that influences heritage and non-heritage students' learning of Chinese, and its relationship with Chinese language learning strategies (LLS). The study uses Deci and Ryan's typology--"Intrinsic Motivation" and "Extrinsic Motivation", for the investigation, examining issues such as: (1) What…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Motivation, Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies
Killion, Joellen – Learning Forward, 2013
A professional learning plan is the navigation system for the comprehensive professional learning system. Professional learning plans establish short- and long-term guidance for professional learning and its implementation. This workbook offers information and tools to walk educators through seven planning steps--from data analysis, to setting…
Descriptors: Workbooks, Professional Education, Educational Planning, Educational Research
Thu, Tran Hoang – Online Submission, 2009
This study examines the language learning strategies employed by successful learners of English as a foreign and second language. Two successful English learners whose first languages are Mandarin were interviewed, and asked to complete a questionnaire and a self-evaluation measure to indicate their perceived level of language proficiency as well…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Vocabulary Development
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Seifert, Edward H.; Beck, John J. – NASSP Bulletin, 1984
After noting classroom techniques that made a difference in student learning, the authors focus on reducing the distractions of a school environment and providing principals a classroom observation instrument. They suggest a student observation form to be used by principals, analyzing six student behavior categories. (JW)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Course Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement
Mazzio, Frank – 1988
This report provides suggestions on how a language arts study skills assessment program could be structured to ensure that school districts meet the Common Curriculum Goals of the public elementary and secondary schools in Oregon. This report includes: (1) a list of Common Curriculum Goals that relate to study skills; (2) general implications for…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Evaluation
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