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Rebecca Matson; Jo Linforth; Julie Hanna; Vikki Barnes-Brown – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2024
Student well-being is an increasing area of concern within higher education and one of the biggest causes of attrition. This study sought to investigate the potential for sensory modulation strategies as an approach to support student well-being and engagement in studies through an action research project. Sixteen second-year occupational therapy…
Descriptors: Well Being, Learner Engagement, Occupational Therapy, College Students
Pauline A. M. Bremner; Carol Air – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This study adds to the existing body of knowledge on the benefits to learners of using an interdisciplinary design thinking (DT) pedagogical approach taking the form of a micro credential with an extra curricula workshop. Design/methodology/approach: The interpretivist research examined opinion via nine semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Student Experience, Student Development
How They Did It: Homeschooled Students Share Their Top Tips to Succeed in Dual Enrollment and Beyond
Micheal Crouch – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
This article examines how personal characteristics contribute to the success of homeschooled students in dual enrollment programs and their transition to higher education, the workforce, or the military. It emphasizes the effectiveness of metacognitive strategies in improving academic achievement and challenges misconceptions about socialization…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Academic Achievement, Dual Enrollment, Success
Anton O. Tolman; Benjamin A. Johnson – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2025
Metacognition is a key to effective learning, foundational to critical thinking and fostering scholarly and professional identity. Yet many faculty are uncertain how to integrate metacognitive skill development into classes. This article describes two metacognitive instruments, the TTM-LS and the LSSA, that are short, simple to use, and discipline…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Critical Thinking, Skill Development, Student Responsibility
Lawson, Christie A.; McGuire, Stephanie; Hodges, Russ; Gray, Rosianna; McGuire, Saundra Y.; Killingbeck, Mark; Segovia, Jawn – Learning Assistance Review, 2021
The decision to explicitly teach students learning strategies and skills and how to think reflectively about their learning process is framed theoretically by the literature on self-regulation, metacognition, and social-cognitive theory. Interventions for self-regulation and metacognitive strategies can optimize the student learning process and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reflection, Learning Strategies, Study Skills
N. Nurmi; Herawati Susilo; I. Ibrohim; S. Suhadi – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2024
Metacognitive skills are important because they help people develop an understanding of effective strategies. This skill also helps improve one's critical thinking and creative thinking so as to be able to overcome problems in everyday life. The purpose of this research is to train students' metacognitive skills through biology learning using the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Learning Strategies
Burman, Sarah Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Chronically ill students have been excluded from many conversations about access in higher education. These students have conditions that impact their daily lives and can carry stigma with them, which in turn can impact their academic performance. Additionally, chronically ill students have largely been excluded from the literature in higher…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Student Attitudes, Chronic Illness, College Students
Bort-Mir, Lorena – The EUROCALL Review, 2020
Metacognition can be considered as knowledge about one's own cognitive activities and their regulation during learning processes (Flavell, 1979). Students are, then, involved in metacognitive mental activities when they think about what they have learned, how they have learned it, or how they can relate it to their personal experiences, among…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Student Journals, Metacognition, College Students
J. A. Bunn; Y. Feito – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2024
Agile, Lean, and Scrum (collectively referred to as Agile) are frameworks that help teams collaborate more effectively and transparently on complex projects. Originally developed in business and information technology, these methods have since been adapted for use in a variety of disciplines. Agile is based on iterative and incremental…
Descriptors: Student Research, Student Projects, College Students, Group Activities
Katelyn Nicolay – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Athletic training students require strong critical thinking skills in order to make decisions for the health and safety of their athletes. Research has shown that these skills are difficult to develop. Simulation learning is often used in healthcare education as a way to build these critical thinking skills. This action research study sought to…
Descriptors: Simulation, Learning Strategies, Skill Development, Critical Thinking
Chen, Ken-Zen – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2020
College learning in Asian countries has been highly structured and mandated. For example, students are asked to complete a series of required courses, attend weekly face-to-face lectures, and take summative midterms and finals. However, traditional practices are unlikely to prepare self-directed learners to meet future challenges. Partly supported…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), College Students, Independent Study, Electronic Learning
Petural Shelton – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The conventional educational system is experiencing substantial challenges, preparing post K-12 students for future professions. These challenges include a limited talent pool of skilled and technically proficient employees. Tracking educational and trade skill proficiency has been a norm in educational settings and has adapted over time to…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Recognition (Achievement), Skill Development, Learning Strategies
O'Connor, Emily; Roy, Kevin; O'Hagan, Fergal; Brown, Elizabeth Campbell; Richard, Gisèle; Walsh, Ellyssa; Flynn, Alison – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
We developed and launched an online, course-integrated module called Growth & Goals aimed to help students better develop evidence-based learning skills. The module focuses on five main concepts: self-regulated learning, goal-setting, metacognition, mindfulness, and mindsets (growth and fixed continuum). Growth & Goals is an open education…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Units of Study, Learning Strategies, Skill Development
Burkholder, Eric; Blackmon, Lena; Wieman, Carl – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Much work has been done to characterize the reasoning of students as they solve mathematics-intensive problems and characterizing differences in expert and novice problem solving. In this work, we characterize the problem-solving strategies in a classroom setting of "transitioning novices," students who have completed an introductory…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Learning Strategies, Problem Solving, Knowledge Level
Diehl, Tara E.; Hamman, Karen J.; Rivera, Serina – Learning Assistance Review, 2020
Students taking developmental mathematics often struggle with dedicating adequate time to engage with material outside of class. The institution in this study requires participation in out-of-class support and has utilized a variety of models of support. The goal of these support programs is to increase the pass rates for students and aid in the…
Descriptors: Study, Group Activities, Communities of Practice, Remedial Mathematics