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Turner, Rebecca; Webb, Oliver J.; Cotton, Debby R. E. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
Traditionally, undergraduates study several 'long thin' modules at the same time. Under 'immersive scheduling', students complete a 'short fat' module (i.e. a single subject studied over a compressed period), before moving onto other modules. This piece of social research capitalised on the introduction of immersive scheduling to the first year of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Scheduling, Units of Study
Johnson-Dedeaux, Vanessa Massalyn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study was the first attempt to evaluate the college's career/technical current advising practices. The purpose of this study was to investigate career/technical students' satisfaction with academic advising at a rural community college and to investigate whether there were any relationships between students' satisfaction and various…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Student Attitudes, Humor, Community Colleges
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Carrington, Linda G. – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
Cognitive psychology research, as well as educational psychology research, suggests that learning is enhanced when new subjects are presented in spaced-out sessions rather than compressed into fewer, longer sessions (the "spacing effect"). This would suggest that students should learn better when taking courses that are scheduled over…
Descriptors: Scheduling, Accounting, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Psychology
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LaFountain, Rebecca M. – Innovative Higher Education, 1995
A study examined the relationship between course intensity and long-term retention of course material among graduate counseling students in a research and statistics course. Confirming earlier findings, it revealed no significant effect of course scheduling format. Older students performed significantly better on a 6-month follow-up test. Students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Counselor Training, Course Organization