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Maya Sobel; Linden Higgins – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Students' academic performance improves when they use active study methods and discussion of study strategy efficacy can impact students' choice. Faculty often employ mid-semester wrappers to encourage student reflection on their study habits, so we explored whether exposure to research about learning embedded within post-exam wrappers was…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Study Habits, Study Skills, Learning Strategies
Abd Halim; Fitriyani Bakri; Muhammad Hasbi; Murni Mahmud; Nur Mutmainna Halim – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
This research determines the student's learning strategies based on their learning styles. This research applied qualitative study. The subject of this research is the students of English literature class A in Universitas Negeri Makassar, who were selected through a purposive sampling technique. Thirty-five students were chosen as the subjects of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Study Skills
Jennifer Eilts – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite evidence that self-regulated learning ability is a strong predictor of academic achievement, effective learning and study strategies remain largely underutilized by students in higher education. In a time of extreme nursing shortage when prelicensure programs are operating at capacity, implications for course failure reach far beyond the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Baltaoglu, Meltem Gökdag; Güven, Meral – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2020
This study aims to reveal the views of prospective teachers, who study at the faculty of education, on learning responsibility. This study is performed on the basis of the basic qualitative research method. The study group of the research is composed of a total of 48 prospective teachers whose views are received on a voluntary basis and who are…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Study Skills, Student Responsibility
Álvarez-Montero, Francisco J.; Leyva-Cruz, María G.; Moreno-Alcaraz, Flérida – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2018
Introduction: One of the many notions that have been introduced in education in the last 50 years is that of learning styles. This idea is very popular and enjoys good acceptance. However, from a scientific perspective this notion is very controversial. In this sense, Coffield, Moseley, Hall, and Ecclestone, made the first systematic review on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Test Reliability
Aboagye, Godwin Kwame; Amponsah, Kwaku Darko; Johnson, Eugene Adjei – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
This study was motivated by the desire to explore the study skills employed by science students in senior high schools (SHS) in the Cape Coast metropolis across the Central Region of Ghana. A total of 600 SHS second-year science students, 354 males, and 244 females, took part in the investigation. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Skills, High School Students, Gender Differences
Erdogan, Tolga; Ozdemir, Emrah – Online Submission, 2018
In related research, learning approaches and learning strategies have been reported as important variables influencing the quality of student learning. The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the learning approaches and the language learning strategies of higher education students. The research was conducted with…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Gender Differences
Hoffmann, Roald; McGuire, Saundra Yancy – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2016
Learning and teaching science challenges many students and instructors. From four decades of helping students learn, ourselves teaching, and aiding educators teach chemistry, we have formulated some strategies that prove effective in improving learning and teaching. Specific teaching tactics such as establishing a contract for grading, and using…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Instructional Effectiveness, College Students
Odukoya, Jonathan A.; Omole, David O.; Atayero, Aaron A.; Badejo, Joke A.; Popoola, Segun I.; John, Temitope M.; Ucheaga, Emeka – Cogent Education, 2018
In this project, 276 students at a private university in Nigeria completed a survey concerned with their personal attributes and study dispositions. First class (summa cum laude) students were compared with third class (less successful) students. Differences were not found in their goal setting habits, and declaration of healthiness. The third…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, High Achievement, Student Characteristics
Donaldson, Scott F. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Due to recent regulation, Chiropractic Colleges admit students with less than standard science courses and less than standard GPA. These students require tracking and support. How these students learn compared to standard admissions students is not understood. Researchers have demonstrated that students' learning approaches, strategies, and…
Descriptors: College Admission, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Student Characteristics
Jiménez, Patricia Kim – HOW, 2018
This manuscript reports the final findings of an exploratory, descriptive case study that aimed at exploring the perceptions of a group of English as a foreign language students in a public university regarding their English learning and the commitment level through the process. A questionnaire, a survey, and the teacher's diary were the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Public Colleges, Language Attitudes, Case Studies
Thompson, Penny – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Research suggests a negative relationship between frequent use of communication technologies, such as text messaging and social network sites, and academic performance, but the nature of the relationship needs to be explored in greater detail. This study explored the relationship between use of communication technologies and self-reported study…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Technology Uses in Education, Social Networks, Social Media
Academic Progress Depending on the Skills and Qualities of Learning in Students of a Business School
de Jesús, Araiza Vázquez María; Claudia, Dörfer; Rosalinda, Castillo Corpus – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
This research was to establish the relationship between qualities of learning; learning skills and academic performance in undergraduate students. 310 undergraduates participated in this research of which 72% are female and 28% male. All responded Scale Learning Strategies of Roman and Gallego (1994) and Questionnaire Learning Styles of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Correlation
Ensminger, David C.; Hoyt, Amy E.; Chandrasekhar, Arcot J.; McNulty, John A. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
We tested the hypothesis that medical students change their study strategies when transitioning from basic science courses to clerkships, and that their study practices are associated with performance scores. Factor scores for three approaches to studying (construction, rote, and review) generated from student (n = 150) responses to a…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Schools, Medical Students, Learning Strategies
Anderson, Anthony; Johnston, Bill; McDonald, Alexandra – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
This article presents empirical research exploring adult returner students' patterns of learning via qualitative analysis of a series of semi-structured interviews. Interviewees' comments shed light on the relation between patterns of learning on the one hand, and study skills, epistemological issues and attitudes to peer interaction on the other.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Students, Reentry Students, Qualitative Research