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Fjelkner-Pihl, Annika – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
This article adds to a growing body of literature on how various types of social relations can work synergistically to promote students' academic success. Students' study-related social networks affect academic outcome in higher education. The network literature in education generally explores students' various relations separately, rather than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Networks, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education
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
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Sieglová, Dagmar – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Language learning is a life-long process. In a world that connects people across nations through study, work, travel and socializing, new chances and challenges arise, intensifying a need to improve modern foreign language skills. The aim of language education, therefore, should not be limited to providing mere language instruction but it should…
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Iwamoto, Darren H.; Hargis, Jace; Bordner, Richard; Chandler, Pomaika'inani – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
The purpose of this scholarship of teaching and learning was to define and assess the level of self-regulation skills undergraduate students possess. Participants completed the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ). Through the analysis of the MSLQ, students reported having high expectations for themselves. Yet, students were…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Higher Education
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de la Fuente, Jesús; López, Mireia; Zapata, Lucía; Martínez-Vicente, Jose Manuel; Vera, Manuel Mariano; Solinas, Giulliana; Fadda, Salvatore – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2014
There has been growing research interest in achievement emotions in university teaching-learning processes in recent years. While their importance has been firmly established, there continues to be a need for assessment and intervention models. The objective of this report is to present the "Competency Model for Studying, Learning and…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Coping
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Edmunds, Robert; Richardson, John T. E. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
Background: Students in higher education are known to vary in their conceptions of learning, their approaches to studying, and the personal development and personal change that result. Aims: This study aimed to explore the relationships among these four aspects of students' experience; to examine whether there were variations across academic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Graduation, Measures (Individuals), Study Habits
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Van Bragt, Cyrille A. C.; Bakx, Anouke W. E. A.; Van der Sanden, Johan M. M.; Croon, Marcel A. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2007
Recently, more students have entered Dutch higher education. This is a consequence of the possibility to offer students to enter higher education, with a certificate from senior secondary education (SSVE). In earlier days most students in higher education had passed senior general secondary education (SGSE), or even pre-university education. It is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Personality Traits, Foreign Countries, Educational Background
Morgan, Alistair; And Others – 1981
Many recent studies of student learning are grounded in a theoretical framework which is experiential and describes learning from the learner's perspective or "from the inside". A research project on student learning in the Open University has followed a group of 30 students through their first year of university study. Students were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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van Rossum, Erik Jan; And Others – Higher Education, 1985
Results of a survey of 42 college students concerning their conceptions of learning, good teaching, studying, insight and understanding, and application of knowledge are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Stages, Higher Education, Learning Processes
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Lyall, Robert; McNamara, Suzanne – Open Learning, 2000
Discusses the orientation of learners, which takes into account their environment and how they take control over their studies. Describes a study of Australian university distance education students that examined factors which influence distance students' orientations, and discusses results that show student independence and study environment were…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Peterson, Sarah E. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1992
Investigates the cognitive functions of college students' use of underlining as a learning strategy. Finds that underlining does not serve an encoding or review function and may be counterproductive for inferential recall. (PRA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
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Pauk, Walter – Reading World, 1974
Stresses the importance of recitation as a study skill that retards the rapid rate at which individuals forget, citing the experiments of A. I. Gates who revealed that merely reading textual materials is not effective in learning. (RB)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Memory
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Ramsden, P.; Entwistle, N. J. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
Two thousand students from 66 academic departments in six contrasting disciplines from British colleges completed an "approaches to studying" inventory and a course perceptions questionnaire. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to ways in which the organization of teaching and courses may affect students'…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Course Evaluation, Departments
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Watkins, D.; Hattie, J. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
Two studies are reported which investigate sex, faculty, and age (academic year) differences in the study methods of students at an Australian university. The young students, the male students, and the students enrolled in science-based faculties appeared to be most in need of study methods counseling. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Departments, Higher Education
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Laurillard, Diana – Higher Education, 1979
Research on the application of descriptions of student learning to normal methods of studying is discussed, and a study is reported that examines student learning in actual working situations. It is concluded that learning styles and strategies apply to students in particular situations rather than to individual students per se. (Author/JMD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Higher Education, Learning
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