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Raouf Hamzavi; Hannane Sharifi; Soha Kalantari; Sahar Imani – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
The purpose was to examine the relationship between cognitive appraisals of control and value, learning-related achievement emotions, and academic achievement among Iranian EFL university students. Participants included 440 senior EFL students of different ages (22-35) from 15 universities in Iran. They completed the Motivated Strategies for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement, English (Second Language)
Stephanie Lynn Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem addressed by this proposed study is that nontraditional African-American female college students in the United States experience more underlying issues with balancing the demands of work, school, and life than their non-minority peers. The proposed quantitative, correlational study investigated if and to what extent a relationship…
Descriptors: Females, African American Students, Correlation, Learning Strategies
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Barton, Bianca A.; Adams, Katharine S.; Browne, Blaine L.; Arrastia-Chisholm, Meagan C. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2021
Accessing social media is common and although concerns have been raised regarding the impact of social media on academic success, research in this area is sparse and inconsistent. Survey responses were collected from 659 undergraduate and graduate students to determine the relationship between social media usage and overall academic performance,…
Descriptors: Social Media, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Academic Achievement
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Can, Fatih – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
This study aims at examining the relationship between Turkish teacher candidates' metacognitive learning strategies and critical listening attitudes as well as determining whether their critical listening attitudes and the use of metacognitive learning strategies vary with gender, age, year in college, and grade point average (GPA). Accordingly, a…
Descriptors: Correlation, Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Mazzetti, Greta; Paolucci, Alessio; Guglielmi, Dina; Vannini, Ira – Education Sciences, 2020
Promoting academic success among undergraduate students is crucial for tackling the need to foster employability competencies. Low levels of academic attainment in higher education, along with the increasing number of persons participating in tertiary education, represent crucial trends, which need to be studied in order to develop efficient…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Undergraduate Students
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Atsunori Fujii – Discover Education, 2024
Learner autonomy is particularly important in higher education, where students are fully responsible for their own learning. Despite this, there is a lack of research on aspects of autonomy support in higher education compared with that of primary and secondary education. To address this gap, this study explored autonomy support and learning…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Personal Autonomy, Preferences, Educational Environment
Heather M. Crockett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study employed quantitative methods to analyze survey results related to the heutagogical learning preferences of undergraduate students in the United States. Heutagogy, an emerging theory focused on a self-determined and student-led approach, has shown positive benefits associated with 21st-century skills and high-level learning necessary to…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Style
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Bouiri, Oussama; Lotfi, Said; Talbi, Mohammed – Education Sciences, 2021
The main purpose of this study is determining the correlations between personality traits, academic mental skills and educational outcomes using a quantitative methodology, based on a non-experimental, correlational study. In addition, the following variables are taken into consideration: gender, grade averages and school cycle. The sample is…
Descriptors: Correlation, Personality Traits, Student Characteristics, Middle School Students
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Rezalou, Ali; Altay, Ismail Firat – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2022
In this study, the researcher investigated the impact of social, metacognitive, and cognitive strategies on developing learner autonomy in foreign language learning. 150 EFL students participated in this study. In the selection of the participants, a simple random sampling technique was used. The aim of this study was to find the relationship…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition
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Alsahafi, Morad – SAGE Open, 2023
This study investigates the relationship between depth of academic vocabulary knowledge and academic success among Saudi English-as-a-foreign-language university students. Fifty fourth-year university students majoring in English completed a vocabulary depth test, the Word Associates Test (WAT), based on the Academic Word List (AWL). Then,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Simms, Kathryn – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2021
This study takes a step toward using data-driven instruction (i.e., using data to guide instructional choices) in the accounting classroom: Evaluating which students are most likely to struggle in the first course of accounting. More specifically, it evaluates the correlations between four constructs (i.e., academic background, grit, attendance,…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Introductory Courses, Accounting
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Anthenien, Amber Maree; DeLozier, Sarah J.; Neighbors, Clayton; Rhodes, Matthew G. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2018
We examined the extent to which college students' self-reported study strategy use relates to perceived peer strategy use, allowing us to determine whether college students misperceive peers' use of different study strategies. College students (n = 195) reported their use and perceived peer use of 10 different study strategies. Study strategy use…
Descriptors: College Students, Study Habits, Learning Strategies, Student Behavior
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Veas, Alejandro; Castejón, Juan-Luis; O'Reilly, Colm; Ziegler, Albert – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2018
The underachievement of gifted students is a serious problem in gifted education. Although analytic research strategies have identified many causes of underachievement, this kind of approach still needs to be complemented by synthetic research strategies. The actiotope model of giftedness, for example, suggests that the effect of educational…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Academically Gifted, Secondary School Students, Parent Participation
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Martin, Hector; Craigwell, Renaldo; Ramjarrie, Karrisa – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
The influence of grit on engineering student's achievement has been understudied. The association between grit, self-regulated learning (SRL), and academic achievement in civil engineering students was investigated using correlation and regression analysis. One hundred and one civil engineering students from various nationalities completed a…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Correlation, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
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Zilundu, Prince L. M.; Chibhabha, Fidelis; Yu, Guangyin; Fu, Rao; Zhou, Li-Hua – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2022
Medical students' motivation and study strategies are crucial in determining academic performance. This study aimed to assess the motivation and learning strategies of medical students as well as their association with performance in anatomy examinations. The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire, two focus group discussions, and…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, Anatomy
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