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Abraham E. Flanigan; Jordan Wheeler; Tiphaine Colliot; Junrong Lu; Kenneth A. Kiewra – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Many college students prefer to type their lecture notes rather than write them by hand. As a result, the number of experimental and quasi-experimental studies comparing these two note-taking mediums has flourished over the past decade. The present meta-analytic research sought to uncover trends in the existing studies comparing achievement and…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, College Students, Notetaking, Handwriting
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Yi Zhang; Jiumin Yang; Chenyan Dai; Zhongling Pi – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
Previous studies have shown that encouraging students to use self-explanation strategies has proven effective in text-focused learning contexts. However, no study to date has focused on how students' strategy preference moderates the effect of self-explanation strategies on learning from video lectures. The current study investigated how students'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Lecture Method, Preferences
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Pankaj Chavan; Ritayan Mitra; Abhinav Sarkar; Aditya Panwar – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
The use of Experience Sampling Methods (ESM) to assess students' experiences, motivation, and emotions by sending signals to students at random or fixed time points has grown due to recent technological advances. Such methods offer several advantages, such as capturing the construct in the moment (i.e., when the events are fresh on respondents'…
Descriptors: Reliability, Validity, Student Attitudes, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
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McQueen, Heather A.; Colegrave, Nick – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Quectures are flipped lectures with embedded 'quecture questions', which employ metacognitive reflection as an active learning intervention. Quecture questions are students' own questions, identified and constructed by students around learning objectives during lectures. The quecture question intervention aims to support each student to engage…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Low Achievement, Learner Engagement, Individualized Instruction
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Bernacki, Matthew L.; Vosicka, Lucie; Utz, Jenifer C.; Warren, Carryn Bellomo – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Many science, engineering, technology, and math (STEM) majors fail to complete their degrees, and those who leave report they lack learning skills required for STEM coursework. In 2 studies, we examined the effects on students' exam performances when they were assigned to complete a brief digital learning skills training program we embedded into…
Descriptors: Training, Electronic Learning, Skill Development, Metacognition
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Lai, Ting-Ling; Lin, Fang Ting; Yueh, Hsiu-Ping – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of team-based flipped learning classes on students' learning achievement and motivation. Eighty-two students in two economics classes at a vocational high school participated in the study. This study adopted a pre-test and post-test quasi-experiment design with two teaching approaches…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teamwork, Vocational High Schools, Economics Education
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Nkoala, Sisanda B. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2020
Background: The year 2020 will mark five years since the watershed #FeesMustFall protests in South Africa. This was a student-led series of protests, at campuses across the country, calling for higher education to be made accessible through free decolonised education for black people. In light of this, the time has come to ascertain how students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Multilingualism, Journalism Education, Higher Education
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Luttenberger, Silke; Macher, Daniel; Maidl, Verena; Rominger, Christian; Aydin, Nilüfer; Paechter, Manuela – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
Lecture podcasts are considered an efficient means for passing on learning contents to students, most notably in lectures with large numbers of students. Here, the lecturer's presentation, combined with lecture slides, is recorded and broadcasted in video form. The present study investigates how students organize learning when they have the choice…
Descriptors: College Students, Lecture Method, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices
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Rambocas, Meena; Sastry, Musti K. S. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2017
Some education specialists are challenging the use of traditional strategies in classrooms and are calling for the use of contemporary teaching and learning techniques. In response to these calls, many field experiments that compare different teaching and learning strategies have been conducted. However, to date, little is known on the outcomes of…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Engineering Education, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Killian, Mark; Bastas, Hara – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
Relevant in many academic contexts, recent scholarship in sociology has challenged departments to improve the public face of the discipline through introductory classes. However, this scholarship has not addressed how departments can improve the discipline's public face while maintaining student performance. It is one thing to create an engaging…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Sociology, Introductory Courses, Teaching Methods
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Kim, ChanMin; Park, Seung Won; Huynh, Niem; Schuermann, Ryan Thomas – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
We investigated how high-performers and low-performers differ with regard to motivation and engagement in a university-level, large-format general education geography course. One hundred and ten students participated in the study. A self-report measure was administered three times (at the beginning, middle and end of the semester). Performance…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement
Kiliçkaya, Ferit – Online Submission, 2016
The aim of the study presented in this paper was to compare undergraduate students' information comprehension under conditions where they took notes in longhand during traditional lectures and lectures given through slides. A quasi-experimental approach was adopted to collect the data from 42 participants enrolled in a compulsory course at a state…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Comprehension, Notetaking
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Pindiprolu, Sekhar – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2015
Students with high incidence disabilities (i.e., specific learning disabilities, emotional disturbance, intellectual disability, etc.) exhibit impairments in the areas of attention, memory, perception, processing linguistic information, and reasoning that affects their ability to learn. Hence, the ability to design and deliver explicit, enhanced…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Academic Achievement, Instructional Materials, Special Education
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Witecki, Gwendolyn; Nonnecke, Blair – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2015
Universities have experienced increases in technology ownership and usage amongst students entering undergraduate programs. Almost all students report owning a mobile phone and many students view laptops and tablets as educational tools, though they also report using them for nonacademic activities during lectures. We explored the relationship…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Handheld Devices, Laptop Computers, Learner Engagement
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Colthorpe, Kay; Zimbardi, Kirsten; Ainscough, Louise; Anderson, Stephen – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2015
It is well established that a student's capacity to regulate his or her own learning is a key determinant of academic success, suggesting that interventions targeting improvements in self-regulation will have a positive impact on academic performance. However, to evaluate the success of such interventions, the self-regulatory characteristics of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research, Self Control
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