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Download full textRungsinanont, Sathirasak – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2020
The objectives of the study are to investigate the most significant contributory factors affecting Engineering students' reading ability in regard to journals, and to identify the problems thus encountered when they read English language journals. The participants in this study consisted of 60 Engineering students who were majoring in Industrial…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Content Area Reading, Reading Ability
Direct linkZou, Yan; Schunn, Christian Dieter; Wang, Yanqing; Zhang, Fuhui – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
Peer assessment has been widely applied to actively engage students in learning to write. However, sometimes students resist peer assessment. This study explores reviewers' attitudes and other underlying factors that influence students' participation in online peer assessment. Participants were 234 Chinese undergraduates from two different…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Participation, Peer Evaluation, Predictor Variables
Hartshorn, K. James; Evans, Norman W.; Egbert, Jesse; Johnson, Amy – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2017
English-medium institutions of higher education host increasing numbers of English-as-a second-language (ESL) learners in the US. English language skill is vital to their progress. Previous research examined reading challenges and expectations faculty have for their first-year students within five popular majors for international students…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Students, College Faculty
Lee, Jia-Ying – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The main purpose of this study was to compare the strategies used by Chinese-speaking students when confronted with familiar versus unfamiliar topics in a multiple-choice format reading comprehension test. The focus was on describing what students do when they are taking reading comprehension tests by asking students to verbalize their thoughts.…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Teaching Methods, Statistical Analysis, English (Second Language)
