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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
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
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
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
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
Alliprandini, Paula Mariza Zedu – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2018
The objective of this article was to examine the use of learning strategies used by students of distance learning, enrolled in courses from two public institutions. A total of 821 students took part in the research, 532 of them from the South Institution and 289 from the Midwest Institution of Brazil. Data was composed from the factors: emotion…
Descriptors: College Students, Learning Strategies, Distance Education, Comparative Analysis
Lee, Hye-Jung; Lee, Jihyun; Makara, Kara A.; Fishman, Barry J.; Teasley, Stephanie D. – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This study explores how the relationship between college students' learning strategies and their grade point average (GPA) differs across two culturally different institutions. Surveys of 621 students at a South Korean university and 824 students at a university in the USA were used to assess four types of learning strategies: motivation-related,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Grade Point Average, Learning Strategies, High Achievement
Qureshi, Shazia; Ullah, Raza – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2014
Learning environment is a vast area and varies from time to time and place to place. In the broader spectrum, a learning environment may be teacher-centered or student-centered. The teacher-centered learning environment lacks active participation of students in the teaching learning process, and lecturing is a predominant mode of instruction.…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
Hunt, Clive – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2012
Teaching larger groups of students is a growing phenomenon in HE and this brings with it its own challenges, not least for the students themselves but also for their lecturers. Demographic factors as well as the experiences that characterise us as individuals will impact upon our ability to learn. The pilot study reported here considered the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Large Group Instruction, Class Size
Balter, Olle; Cleveland-Innes, Martha; Pettersson, Kerstin; Scheja, Max; Svedin, Maria – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This study investigates the relationship between approaches to studying and course completion in two online preparatory university courses in mathematics and computer programming. The students participating in the two courses are alike in age, gender, and approaches to learning. Four hundred and ninety-three students participating in these courses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Online Courses, Computer Science Education
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
Valadas, Sandra A. T. S.; Goncalves, Fernando R.; Faisca, Luis – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
This paper examines the validity of the "Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students--short version" (ASSIST; Tait et al. in "Improving student learning: Improving students as learners", 1998), to be used with Portuguese undergraduate students. The ASSIST was administrated to 566 students, in order to analyse a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Tools, Higher Education, Test Validity
Mutsotso, S. N.; Abenga, E. S. B. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
Education is an investment to development and poor study methods should not compromise the mandate of higher education institutions to generate, preserve and disseminate knowledge and produce high quality graduates. Universities admit students with varying backgrounds in terms of learning/study styles, levels of preparedness and concepts of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tests, Program Effectiveness, Study Skills
Reed, Adam – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2008
The classical dialectical (study partner) learning method of Greek and Hellenistic antiquity remains the traditional learning method of Jewish religious and cultural studies, and enjoys widespread informal use by students in some American universities. The cognitive advantages of dialectical study have led to its adoption as a powerful, general…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Study Habits, Study Skills, Information Systems