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Andrew Sellers – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Experiential learning requirements, such as internships and practicum, are common requirements in undergraduate sports management programs. These courses typically require the sports management student to complete a set number of hours while being guided by both their internship site supervisor and their faculty advisor. Although these internships…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Employment Potential, Athletics, Time on Task
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Xu Du; Lizhao Zhang; Jui-Long Hung; Hao Li; Hengtao Tang; Miao Dai – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2024
This study aims to track college students' on-task rate during the teaching process and to analyze the influence of instructional strategies on on-task rate through the aspects of observable and internal engagement indicators. Thirty-six undergraduate students at a higher education institution in China participated in the study. Students'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Attention Control, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests
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Jiang, Juming; Kusamoto, Misaki; Tanaka, Ayumi – Frontline Learning Research, 2021
This study examined whether individual differences in causality orientation moderate the effects of monetary reward and choice on perceived competence, which affect intrinsic motivation in turn. Causality orientation refers to an individual's tendency to experience or interpret events in a social context in a specific way and to behave…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Correlation, Rewards, Incentives
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Meehan, Maria; McCallig, John – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2019
We apply Carroll's model of school learning, which theorizes about the relationship between time and learning, to motivate the design of a large, first-year, university mathematics course, where students have the choice to attend lectures and/or watch online videos. The theoretical model informs how the course and resources are designed in order…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Video Technology, Learning Processes, Correlation
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John Mingoia; Brianna Le Busque – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2022
Online higher education is experiencing growth in enrolment and development which creates a need to continually evaluate the efficacy of online course delivery. Prior research reported that performance in online education is equivalent to traditional face-to-face delivery; however, minimal research exists to identify which elements of course…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Online Courses
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Chen, Zhongzhou; Xu, Mengyu; Garrido, Geoffrey; Gunthrie, Matthew W. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
This study examines whether including more contextual information in data analysis could improve our ability to identify the relation between students' online learning behavior and overall performance in an introductory physics course. We created four linear regression models correlating students' pass-fail events in a sequence of online learning…
Descriptors: Correlation, Electronic Learning, Performance Factors, Learning Analytics
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Rawson, Kevin; Stahovich, Thomas F.; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
There is a long history of research efforts aimed at understanding the relationship between homework activity and academic achievement. While some self-report inventories involving homework activity have been useful for predicting academic performance, self-reported measures may be limited or even problematic. Here, we employ a novel method for…
Descriptors: Homework, Technology Uses in Education, Academic Achievement, Engineering Education
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Osaci-Costache, Gabriela; Cocos, Octavian; Cocos, Alina – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2017
Present-day geography is inconceivable in the absence of GIS software. The students and staff of the Faculty of Geography within the University of Bucharest use both proprietary GIS software and Open Source computer programmes. Consequently, this study aims at identifying to what extent each of them is used for various tasks and what is the…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Geography Instruction
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Cramer, Ken; Pschibul, Rebecca – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2017
The present study investigated the time usage and levels of perceived stress, academic workload, and recreation time for 177 students at the University of Windsor before, during, and after Fall Reading Week (FRW). Over a three-week span (at various times of the day), students received a message to their smartphone to complete a 20-second survey…
Descriptors: Time Factors (Learning), Time on Task, Recreational Activities, Reading Habits
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Pines, Harvey A.; Larkin, Judith E.; Murray, Molly P. – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
Two studies explored properties of psychology assignments from an atypical perspective: students' own perceptions of what they learned and their emotional reactions to the assignments, specifically feelings of pride in their work. Study 1 showed that assignments vary in their likelihood of generating prideful accomplishment and identified three…
Descriptors: Assignments, Psychology, Student Attitudes, Correlation
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List, Alexandra; Alexander, Patricia A.; Stephens, Lori A. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Three indicators of undergraduate students' (n = 197) source evaluation were investigated as students completed an academic task requiring the use of multiple texts. The source evaluation metrics examined were students' (1) accessing of document information, (2) trustworthiness ratings, and (3) citation in written responses. All three indicators…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Evaluation Methods, Information Sources, Credibility
Furr, Daniel; Williamson, Manda – Pearson, 2019
Revel is an interactive learning environment intended to help students prepare for class by reading a little, then doing a little. Within Revel, there are several different learning products. Each product consists of instructional text interspersed with videos, interactive elements and assessments. Revel for "Psychology," 1st edition by…
Descriptors: Psychology, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Blended Learning
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Andrietti, Vincenzo; Velasco, Carlos – Journal of Economic Education, 2015
The authors analyze matched administrative survey data on economics students enrolled in two econometrics courses offered in consecutive terms at a major public university in Spain to assess the impact of lecture attendance and study time on academic performance. Using proxy variables in a cross-sectional regression setting, they find a positive…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Attendance, Academic Achievement, Study Habits
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Tseng, Min-Chen – TESOL International Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between self-efficacy and time spent learning English by students in different majors in Taiwan. The participant sample was comprised of 375 students from 20 academic departments at 8 colleges in 3 universities in Taiwan. Eighty-eight students studied at an arts university, 75 at a medical…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Lovett, Benjamin J.; Lewandowski, Lawrence J.; Potts, Heather E. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2017
Students often feel time pressure when taking tests, and students with disabilities are sometimes given extended time testing accommodations, but little research has been done on the factors that affect students' test-taking speed. In the present study, 253 students at two colleges completed measures of processing speed, reading fluency, and…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Test Wiseness, Reading Skills, Standardized Tests
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