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Anas Hajar; Mehmet Karakus – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
This mixed-methods study explored the nature, effectiveness, and policy implications of the fee-charging private supplementary tutoring (PT)--including online--that first-year Kazakhstani university students attended over the last 12 months. The data were collected from 952 participants using a close-ended questionnaire followed by semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Tutoring, Fees
Nicole Kasbary; Géza Máté Novák – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
Drama in Education (DiE) has been a well-known teaching technique for an active learning approach for students. It utilizes different forms of conventions to enhance a student's learning experience in the classroom, offering alternatives instead of the traditional teaching approaches. Drama can encourage students to learn and think critically and…
Descriptors: Drama, STEM Education, Art Education, Student Attitudes
Naia Robinson; Sarah Walker – Student Success, 2024
Strengths-based initiatives for university students to identify and develop their strengths are increasing in popularity in the tertiary sector. An understanding of strengths provides students with greater resilience in their transition in and out of university. While such strengths-based initiatives have been studied among first-year student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, College Freshmen, Student Characteristics
Victoria S. Glena; Aislin R. Mushquash; John K. Gotwals; Kathryn E. Sinden; Erin S. Pearson – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To determine the impact of four classroom-based sessions on mindfulness and symptoms of psychological distress among first-year students. A secondary objective was to explore participants' involvement experiences. Participants: First-year undergraduate students at a Canadian university were recruited. Methods: A mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mental Health, College Freshmen, Intervention
Dawn Lyken-Segosebe; Michael Sparrow – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2025
Academic and social deficits, a nine-month secondary school-to-university learning loss, a readiness gap for university-level coursework, and limited cultural capital characterize the transition to university for Botswana's secondary school completers seeking a STEM qualification. This study investigated internationally implemented developmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Transition, Transitional Programs, College Preparation
Günter, Tugçe – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023
The present study was to teach metabolic syndrome (MetS) disease through a scenario developed according to the problem-based learning (PBL) approach in the biochemistry class. The study was designed as a single group pre-test and post-test research. The study group consisted of first-year students (N = 183) from the nursing department within the…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Diseases, Problem Based Learning, Biochemistry
Markus Knöpfel; Marco Kalz; Patric Meyer – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Future students are confronted with a complex world that demands the ability to solve problems in unstructured, undefined, and unfamiliar situations. The aim of the present study was to investigate the development of problem-solving skills through the implementation of Problem-Based Learning (PBL). While previous research has primarily focused on…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Problem Based Learning, Program Effectiveness, Skill Development
Tatchakrit Matyakhan; Treenuch Chaowanakritsanakul; Joey Andrew Lucido Santos – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Gamification is one of the innovative teaching approaches implemented in English classrooms nowadays. However, using gamification to enhance reading engagement and reading comprehension in language classrooms at the university level has not been much explored. This present study investigated gamification's effects on enhancing reading engagement,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gamification, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Pablo Chust-Hernandez; Emelina Lopez-Gonzalez; Joan Maria Senent-Sanchez – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2024
Introduction: Academic stress is a major problem in higher education and can be a risk factor for future academic and mental health problems. Programs to reduce it have focused on psychological interventions (mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral therapy, etc.), ignoring interventions focused on promoting study and learning skills. High academic…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Self Efficacy, College Freshmen, Nursing Students
Chung-Chi Wu; Cheng-Wei Li – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
This study aims to evaluate the effect of adventure education programs on resilience enhancement among first-year undergraduate students. The researchers designed adventure education courses using a benefits-based management activity planning model. An analysis is conducted using quasi-experimental and pre- and post-test non-equivalent group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adventure Education, College Freshmen, Resilience (Psychology)
Hill, Dilshara; Valckenborgh, Frank – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
A carefully constructed method of assessment using short, formative, invigilated in-tutorial quizzes is investigated to see how successful this method is compared to previous assessment tasks. We look at whether student engagement increased, given that students who enter university often face issues with the transition from school, and engagement…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, College Freshmen, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries
Lee, I-Jui – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Taiwan's vocational wood-furniture schools still focus only on the traditional manual training strategy, and so students' knowledge of the furniture-manufacturing process is fragmented. Moreover, they possess limited manual skills without learning the workflows and strategies of furniture production, which is inadequate for satisfying the direct…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Woodworking, Computer Simulation
Ann Celestini; Agnieszka Palalas – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Diversity in age, background, circumstances, and abilities among post-secondary learners has become increasingly common in online nursing education. Thus, there is a need for educators to build an inclusive environment that is responsive to this variety, to optimize learner achievement. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) offers educators a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Nursing Education, Student Attitudes, Educational Technology
Patcharin Katsatasri; Nattapon YoTha; Phamornpun Yurayat – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
The purposes of the current study were to 1) develop a learning burnout assessment for Thai undergraduate students and 2) examine the effects of a positive thinking training program on Thai undergraduate students' learning burnout. The study was divided into two parts: the instrumental development of the assessment tool and the implementation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Burnout, Test Construction, Positive Attitudes
Shaaban, Khaled; Reda, Ranya – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
In many cases, students are unaware of some parts of their study plans or do not have enough information about utilizing available college resources that may help them through their study years. The purpose of this study was to propose and evaluate a method to improve engineering students' understanding of their study plans and available resources…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Engineering Education, College Freshmen, First Year Seminars