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Carolyn Anne Bancroft Andrews – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Online learning continues to widen in popularity by providing greater access and flexibility in time and location the learning occurs. There is a shift in the profile of a traditional college student. Almost half of the students who are enrolled in online classes are 24 or older and tend to carry increased time constraints due to external factors…
Descriptors: Assignments, Intervention, Higher Education, Online Courses
Boothe, Casey M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
When transitioning to higher education, students need to develop the skills to become self-regulated learners capable of setting their own learning goals and planning and monitoring their learning. Self-regulated learning and academic performance have been shown to positively correlate with effective time management and study skills. There are…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Learning Processes
Khoo, Elaine; Huo, Xiangying – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2022
International students with low academic English proficiency face challenges with reading their course materials and writing assignments. Their challenges are exacerbated during remote learning, as they remain in their home countries, immersed in their home languages, which may be quite distant from academic English. To investigate the effects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Eisnaugle, Eva N. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Learning outcomes within the context of assessing general education competencies have gained increasing attention within higher education. Accrediting bodies have increased standards for the assessment of general education competencies, employers continue to indicate graduates from higher education institutions are not prepared for success in the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, General Education, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education
Oostendorp, Marcelyn – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2017
The transformation of higher education has been a pressing concern for policy makers and practitioners. This article provides examples of the transformative potential of assessments designed within the framework of a multi-literacies and heteroglossic pedagogy in an Applied English Language course at a South African university. These assessments,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sopina, Elizaveta; McNeill, Rob – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
Feedback can have a great impact on student learning. However, in order for it to be effective, feedback needs to be of high quality. Electronic marking has been one of the latest adaptations of technology in teaching and offers a new format of delivering feedback. There is little research investigating the impact the format of feedback has on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Feedback (Response), Delivery Systems, Computer Assisted Testing
Duijnhouwer, Hendrien; Prins, Frans J.; Stokking, Karel M. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2010
The effects of progress feedback on university students' writing mastery goal, self-efficacy beliefs, and writing performance were examined in this experiment. Students in the experimental condition (n = 42) received progress feedback on their writing assignment, whereas students in the control condition (n = 44) received feedback without progress…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Assignments, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation
MacLeod, Fiona – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2009
Background: The BSc Public Health and Health Promotion at University College Cork (UCC) aims to produce graduates who are passionate about their discipline. Teachers need to communicate this "passion" to students, but it can be difficult to know whether this has been achieved. The TFU framework makes such an outcome explicit, through…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Health Promotion, Public Health, Teaching Methods
Bharuthram, S.; Mckenna, S. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2006
This paper discusses the implementation of a project in which a writer-respondent intervention was used to develop the academic literacy practices of students. Writer-respondent projects are based on the idea that detailed developmental comments and questions on students' draft writing can assist them in acquiring the peculiar norms of academic…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Assignments, Academic Discourse, Program Implementation
Burdett, Jane – Australian Educational Researcher, 2007
Group work is a widely used learning approach in higher education where it is seen as encouraging the development of collaborative skills and attitudes while producing an assessable product. Group assignments can, however, create dilemmas and tensions for both staff and students. Students often seek academic intervention in the form of support and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Assignments, Cooperative Learning