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Katrina E. Forbes-McKay; Pauline A. M. Bremner; Pamela Johnston; Carol Air – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This study addresses gaps in the existing literature on students' understanding of Independent Learning (IL), whilst exploring the link between levels of IL, growth mindset, motivated strategies for learning and academic performance. Design/methodology/approach: Three hundred and eighty-six university students recruited via opportunistic…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies
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Langanani Rakhunwana; Angelique Kritzinger; Lynne A. Pilcher – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
During their first year of study at university, many students encounter challenges in developing learning strategies that align with success in the courses in which they are enrolled. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic heightened the challenges as universities were compelled to transition to online learning. Therefore, this study investigated…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Online Courses, College Freshmen
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Rocío Giselle Fernández Da Lama; María Elena Brenlla – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: The present research was based on an online questionnaire. A total of 256 undergraduate psychology students aged 18-44 (M = 23.61; SD = 0.57) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina took part in the study (137 women; 53.3%). A sociodemographic and academic survey and the locally adapted versions of the Zimbardo Time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
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Kolburan Geçer, Aynur; Topal, Arzu Deveci – Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, 2023
The aim of this study is to conduct a validity and reliability study for adaptation of the scale of learning strategies (the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire) to Turkish, which was developed by Pintrich, Smith, Garcia and McKeachie (1991) and adapted by Meijs et al. (2019) for distance education students. The Scale of Learning…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Distance Education, Test Construction, Turkish
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Zalazar-Jaime, Mauricio Federico; Medrano, Leonardo Adrián – Journal of Education, 2021
Self-regulated learning (SRL) has gained increasing interest in educational research. Although SRL models agree on the dynamic interplay between forethought, performance, and self-reflection processes, they differ in the subprocesses implied at each phase. The main objectives of this study were to develop and test an SRL model by integrating main…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Undergraduate Students, Structural Equation Models
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Nacaroglu, Oguzhan; Bektas, Oktay; Tüysüz, Mustafa – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2021
The study aimed to examine and compare the science self-regulation skills of gifted and non-gifted students in this study. Survey design, one of the quantitative methods, was utilized in the research. The sample of the study consisted of 263 gifted students enrolled in science and art center and 482 non-gifted students located in the Eastern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Science Education, Critical Thinking
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Bull, Harold; Premkumar, Kalyani; Acharibasam, Jeremiah Wezenamo – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
We found that actively engaging students in our introductory microbiology course was a challenge given our large class sizes and many non-majors taking the course as a program requirement. Therefore, we introduced a novel active learning strategy to our course. Students grouped into teams of three had to create PowerPoint virtual posters on one of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Active Learning, Introductory Courses, Class Size
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Tong, Fuhui; Guo, Haitao; Wang, Zhuoying; Min, Yue; Guo, Wenhong; Yoon, Myeongsun – Educational Studies, 2020
This study investigated the psychometric properties of an adapted Chinese version of Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) using exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. Data were collected from 611 college students from two Chinese universities on the scales of Motivation and Learning Strategies. Results…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Psychometrics
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Mouratidis, A.; Michou, A.; Aelterman, N.; Haerens, L.; Vansteenkiste, M. – Educational Psychology, 2018
In this prospective study, we recruited a sample of Belgian adolescents (N = 886) to investigate to what extent perceived teachers' motivating style relates to quality of motivation in the beginning of the school year and, in turn, changes in study effort and procrastination by the end of the school year. After controlling for initial levels of…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Time Management, Adolescents, Student Motivation
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Alnafea, Tahany; Curtis, David D. – Issues in Educational Research, 2017
Much of the research on self-regulation has investigated the influence of school settings. However, fewer studies have concentrated on the home environment and its influence on student's academic behaviour in school. The present research investigates the influence of mothers' parenting styles on students' self-regulated learning behaviours in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Elementary School Students, Self Efficacy, Family Environment
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Ng, Betsy – New Waves-Educational Research and Development Journal, 2016
Considerable evidence indicates the importance of motivation and self-regulated learning in educational settings. However, there is an insufficient understanding about the influences of social elements and educational factors on students' motivation and self-regulated learning, as well as how motivation for academic learning contributes to…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Profiles, Time Management, Independent Study
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Engin, Gizem; Dikbayir, Ahmet; Genç, Salih Zeki – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2017
The research was carried out with 41 people educated in Ege University, Faculty of Education, Social Studies Teacher Training Department during the fall semester of 2015-2016 academic year. Quasi-experimental design was used in the study. Within the scope of the research, prospective teachers were taught learning strategies lasting for ten weeks.…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Critical Thinking, Help Seeking, Time Management
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Tetteh, Godson Ayertei – Journal of International Education in Business, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to clarify the relationship between the student's study time and the learning process in the higher education system by adapting the total quality management (TQM) principles-process approach. Contrary to Deming's (1982) constancy of purpose to improve the learning process, some students in higher education postpone their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Business Schools
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Everaert, Patricia; Opdecam, Evelien; Maussen, Sophie – Accounting Education, 2017
Previous literature calls for further investigation in terms of precedents and consequences of learning approaches (deep learning and surface learning). Motivation as precedent and time spent and academic performance as consequences are addressed in this paper. The study is administered in a first-year undergraduate course. Results show that the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Learning Motivation
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Sen, Senol; Yilmaz, Ayhan – Science Education International, 2016
The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between preservice teachers' time and study environment management, effort regulation, self-efficacy beliefs, control of learning beliefs and metacognitive self-regulation. This study also investigates the direct and indirect effects of metacognitive self-regulation on time and study…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Self Control
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