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Stefan Denis Merchant; Don Klinger; John Kirby – Canadian Journal of Education, 2022
Many school systems ask teachers to assess and report upon aspects of student performance beyond academic achievement. In Ontario, K-12 teachers assess a common set of six Learning Skills and Work Habits. How well teachers are able to undertake these assessments is not well studied. This study examines Grade 9 and 12 report card data from two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Grade 12, Report Cards
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Jackson, Helen – Learning, Media and Technology, 2019
This paper positions the photographic image of the self (the 'selfie') as the reflexive indicator on which students are prompted to reveal their learning behaviours, and uses this mode of reflexivity to construct a qualitative study of engagement in a higher education setting. The study leverages the intensified processes of self --reflection…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Photography, Learner Engagement, College Students
Pekrun, Reinhard – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2014
The classroom is an emotional place. Students can be excited during studying, hope for success, feel pride in their accomplishments, be surprised at discovering a new solution, experience anxiety about failing examinations, feel ashamed over poor grades, or be bored during lessons. In addition, social emotions play a role and students also bring…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Social Influences, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior
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Bembenutty, Hefer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
This chapter highlights the major contributions of this volume on self-regulation of learning and provides new directions for cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work that could serve to facilitate self-regulation of learning in postsecondary education. "Self-regulation of learning" refers to learners' beliefs about their ability to engage in…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Learning, Self Control, Self Efficacy
Lim, Kyu Yon – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of concept mapping strategies with different levels of generativity in terms of knowledge acquisition and knowledge representation. Also, it examined whether or not learners' self-regulated learning (SRL) skills influenced the effectiveness of concept mapping strategies with different…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Representation, Program Effectiveness
Zimmerman, Jeff; Handfield, Victoria – 1976
The concept and training procedures of a university-based, student-operated program designed to help other students in the area of academic effectiveness is described in this training manual. The manual offers the guidelines for training peer counselors in the techniques of individual academic counseling, group leadership skills in a co-leadership…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Assertiveness, Behavior Change, College Students
Handfield, Victoria; And Others – 1976
The "Manual for Staff Members" describes the Techniques of Learning Program, a part of the Peer Environmental Analysts, Counselors, Educators (PEACE) Program at American University. PEACE is a large, student-operated peer counseling program that consists of six services and related academic courses. Techniques of Learning is a program that teaches…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, College Students, Counselor Training
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers