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Zui Cheng; Zhuo Zhang; Qian Xu; Yukiko Maeda; Peidi Gu – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2025
Research on academic performance in online education proliferated in the last decade; however, our current understanding of the relationship between self-regulated learning and academic performance in online learning environments remains scattered. This meta-analysis provides a holistic view of the relationship between learners' use of…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Independent Study, Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement
Nick Pilcher; Kendall Richards – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
Study Skills in any guise are integral to Higher Education worldwide, existing to help student success. Some argue generic or bolt-on Study Skills do not help with success, others that embedded Study Skills do, but no-one advocates actually evaluating Study Skills in a context of success defined as helping with student educational gain and…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Higher Education, College Students, Learning Strategies
Msafiri Mgambi Msambwa; Zhang Wen; Kangwa Daniel – European Journal of Education, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) has extensively developed, impacting different sectors of society, including higher education, and has attracted the attention of various educational stakeholders, leading to a growing number of research on its integration into education. Hence, this systematic literature review examines the impact of integrating AI…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Artificial Intelligence, Cooperative Learning
Xiaomin Ye; Yilong Yang; Yi Qie; Zengbao Hu – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
Take-home exam (THE) use has been reported in various disciplines, but research on THE use in language modules in higher education appears to be scarce. The current study employed surveys and interviews to examine how the shift to written THE, in place of the traditional in-class exam (ICE) during the pandemic, impacted language learning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Tests, Testing
Jolan Hanssens; Carolien Van Soom; Greet Langie – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
The societal demand for graduates with expertise in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) stands in contrast with prevalent issues of diminished interest among high school students in STEM subjects and low completion rates in STEM academic programs. In the Flemish educational context, heterogeneity in STEM preparedness of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Higher Education, At Risk Students
Lorås, Madeleine; Sindre, Guttorm; Trætteberg, Hallvard; Aalberg, Trond – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2022
As the field of computing education grows and matures, it has become essential to unite computing education and higher education research. Educational research has highlighted that how students study is crucial to their learning progress, and study behaviors have been found to play an important role in students' academic success. This article…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Computer Science Education, Higher Education, College Students
Lai, Yuzhi; Saab, Nadira; Admiraal, Wilfried – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Language learners in higher education increasingly use out-of-class self-directed learning facilitated by mobile technology. In order to make informed educational decisions, this study sets out to provide an overview of empirical research into learning strategies that self-directed learners use with the support of mobile technology in language…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Higher Education
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
Cobanoglu, Rahime; Büyükkidik, Serap; Yurttas Kumlu, Gülfem D. – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2023
The present study explores the self-regulated learning (SRL) research published in English or Turkish language journals included in the Web of Science database from the beginning to 2021 via bibliometric analysis. The 2197 articles that met the eligibility criteria were included in the study. The results reveal that the research on SRL has been…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Educational Research, Independent Study, Learning Motivation
Beck Wells, Melissa – Smart Learning Environments, 2022
Universal design for learning (UDL) in higher education may be a useful tool in supporting the heterogenous higher education student population, specifically in supporting student academic outcomes and retention. With more students enrolling in digital formatted education, specifically international students, a strong framework must be established…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students
Lake, Warren; Boyd, William; Boyd, Wendy – International Education Studies, 2017
The Study Process Questionnaire (SPQ) continues to be applied in a wide range of pedagogical situations. However, the question remains as to how well a researcher understands the conceptual basis behind the tool they choose. This essay provides a compact and comprehensive view of the conceptual basis for the development of the original SPQ, and…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, College Students, Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement
Wild, Steffen; Neef, Christoph – International Journal of STEM Education, 2023
Background: There are different teaching methods and learning content in the academic field of mathematics between school and university. Many students fail in their studies when the proportion of mathematics is high. Additionally, dropout rates, due to mathematical performance, are high. However, there are different strategies used to improve…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Learning Motivation, Learning Strategies
Asikainen, Henna; Gijbels, David – Educational Psychology Review, 2017
The focus of the present paper is on the contribution of the research in the student approaches to learning tradition. Several studies in this field have started from the assumption that students' approaches to learning develop towards more deep approaches to learning in higher education. This paper reports on a systematic review of longitudinal…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies, Student Development
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
Kexin Li; Marilyn Lewis – rEFLections, 2016
Investigations into ways students learn to learn have been carried out for decades, with the results of interest to teachers and students as well as to researchers. The present case study aims to add to what we know about learner strategies by reporting the efforts of one student who had, at the time of her studies, no theoretical knowledge of the…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Higher Education, Student Attitudes