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Winstone, Naomi; Balloo, Kieran; Gravett, Karen; Jacobs, Daniel; Keen, Harry – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Students' engagement in extra-curricular activities can play a significant role in their development of a student identity, as well as leading to a greater sense of belonging and wellbeing. However, individual characteristics such as sociability may influence the likelihood of students engaging in extra-curricular activities. We collected mixed…
Descriptors: Well Being, Sense of Community, Equal Education, Barriers
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Medaille, Ann; Usinger, Janet – College Teaching, 2019
Quiet students are sometimes misunderstood in the college classroom. Students may be quiet for reasons related to personality traits, learned behaviors, or situational factors, but regardless, their silences may be misinterpreted by their instructors as a lack of engagement in their courses. In fact, quiet students are often very engaged in the…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Characteristics, Student Participation, Student Behavior
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Kelsen, Brent; Flowers, Simeon – International Journal on E-Learning, 2018
Personality traits are believed to affect both learner ability and group dynamics and cohesion. Another central element influencing how individuals perform in group settings stems from their motivation to collaborate. This article explores the relationship between personality traits, motivation for collaboration and participation of university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Student Motivation, Cooperative Learning
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Soo, R. S.; Goh, H. S. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
Reticence has always been regarded as a problematic phenomenon among students in the ESL classrooms. Many instructors have expressed their frustrations to decode the reticent behaviour and work out suitable strategies to help students with such behaviour. Whenever such students do not engage in the classroom discourse, they are usually regarded as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Classroom Environment, College Students, Class Activities
Ezen-Can, Aysu; Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
The tremendous effectiveness of intelligent tutoring systems is due in large part to their interactivity. However, when learners are free to choose the extent to which they interact with a tutoring system, not all learners do so actively. This paper examines a study with a natural language tutorial dialogue system for computer science, in which…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Processing, Computer Science Education, Problem Solving
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Shertzer, John E.; Schuh, John H. – NASPA Journal, 2004
This study investigated college student perceptions of leadership and beliefs that both empower students towards and constrain students from involvement in leadership. Interviews were conducted with student leaders (students who held leadership positions) and disengaged students (students who had not held leadership positions). The student…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Student Empowerment