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Ali, Hasan; Mohd Dodeen, Hamzeh – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
This study reports on an adaptation of the course experience questionnaire (CEQ) to the Arab learning context. An Arabic version of the CEQ was used to test the perceptions of a random sample of students at a public university in the UAE as regards their learning environment. The participants were 488 women students who study at nine different…
Descriptors: Arabs, Student Attitudes, Semitic Languages, Educational Experience
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Wan, Kelvin; King, Vivian; Chan, Kevin – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2021
Game-Based Learning (GBL) has been recognized as an essential tool for motivating students to engage in active and constructive learning. While there is a link between GBL and learning outcomes, current research evidence tends to undermine the interrelationships of concepts and oversimplify flow experience in the context of GBL. This study adopted…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Game Based Learning, Student Motivation, Correlation
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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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Djumingin, Sulastriningsih; Weda, Sukardi; Juanda – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2019
Anxiety in the classroom presentation has a debilitating effect on students' success in learning a foreign language (FL) or a second language (L2). This article aimed at investigating students' Anxiety in classroom presentation in Teaching-Learning Interaction of English as a Foreign Language for Students of Indonesian Study Program in general at…
Descriptors: Anxiety, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rodríguez-Ardura, Inma; Meseguer-Artola, Antoni – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
This paper seeks to explain why some individuals sink further into states of flow than others, and what effects flow has in the context of a virtual education environment. Our findings--gathered from both questionnaire and behavioural data--reveal that flow states are elicited by the e-learners' senses of controlling the virtual education…
Descriptors: Attention, Psychological Patterns, Learning Processes, Questionnaires
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Khasanzyanova, Albina – International Review of Education, 2017
It is widely recognised that tertiary education does not provide all of the knowledge and skills required to succeed in modern societies. Personal and interpersonal skills--so-called "soft skills"--are also needed to complement professional skills and expertise, and become an essential part of an individual's personality. One way of…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Volunteers, Questionnaires, Semi Structured Interviews
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Hall, Nathan C.; Sampasivam, Lavanya; Muis, Krista R.; Ranellucci, John – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Background: The link between achievement goals and achievement emotions is well established; however, research exploring potential mediators of this relationship is lacking. The control-value theory of achievement emotions (Pekrun, 2006, "Educational Psychology Review," 18, 315) posits that perceptions of control and value mediate the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Psychological Patterns, Behavior Theories
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Choy, S. Chee; Goh, Pauline Swee Choo; Sedhu, Daljeet Singh – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The development of the 21-item Learner Awareness Levels Questionnaire (LALQ) was carried out using data from three separate studies. The LALQ is a self-reporting questionnaire assessing how and why students learn. Study 1 refined the initial pool of items to 21 using exploratory factor analysis. In Study 2, the analysis showed evidence for a…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Higher Education, College Students, Factor Analysis
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Petrova, Saska; Torres Garcia, Miguel; Bouzarovski, Stefan – Environmental Education Research, 2017
This paper responds to the need for a greater integration of energy and environment themes in the higher education curriculum. We explore the practical implications of empowering students towards the implementation of individual action research projects focused on investigating and addressing insufficient or wasteful energy consumption among…
Descriptors: Action Research, Environmental Education, Energy, Energy Conservation
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Canboy, Basak; Montalvo, Adolfo; Buganza, M. Carmen; Emmerling, Robert J. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
This paper offers an example of how to introduce student-centred knowledge creation and competency development in a systematic way into a master's programme. The curriculum of a new course called Module 9 was framed according to experiential learning theory. While student teams work on self-selected projects, their learning processes are…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Learning Theories, Student Centered Learning, Curriculum Design
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Pereira, Diana; Flores, Maria Assunção; Niklasson, Laila – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
A review of articles published in "Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education," over the last eight years (2006-2013) on assessment in higher education, since the introduction of the Bologna process, is the subject of the paper. The first part discusses the key issue of assessment in higher education and the method used for selecting…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Meta Analysis, Literature Reviews, Evaluation
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Jahnke, Isa; Haertel, Tobias; Wildt, Johannes – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Creativity is one of the important skills of the twenty-first century and central to higher education (HE). When we look closer into research on creativity in HE, however, it is not clear how university teachers conceptualise student creativity. How do teachers grasp, observe and express student creativity? Different methods such as interviews and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Djan, Josephine; George, Babu – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2016
Many universities in Ghana have had a desire to ensure equitable access to formal tertiary education for the growing number of the working public who have sought to improve or better their educational status in tertiary institutions. For many of these working public or individuals, it is almost impossible to stay off work to enrol in these…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement
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Pieschl, Stephanie; Stahl, Elmar; Murray, Tom; Bromme, Rainer – Learning and Instruction, 2012
Theories of self-regulated learning assume that learners flexibly adapt their learning process to external task demands and that this is positively related to performance. In this study, university students (n = 119) solved three tasks that greatly differed in complexity. Their learning processes were captured in detail by task-specific…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Hypermedia, Learning Processes, College Students
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Mallman, Mark; Lee, Helen – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
Research on the socially-situated nature of learning shows how practices and identities are affected by participation in communities, but very little is known about how mature-age students experience the relational dynamics of university. Based on data from a qualitative study of first-year students, we consider written accounts by older learners…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Learning Theories, Higher Education, Academic Aspiration
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