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Kaur, Amrita; Noman, Mohammad; Awang-Hashim, Rosna – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
Students' perception of assessment methods plays a significant role in determining their effort towards learning and their assessment tasks. Similar to the role of goal orientation in predicting students' classroom learning, this study aims to examine how students' goal orientations influence their perception of classroom assessments. Using a…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Student Attitudes, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Dismore, Harriet – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
This paper examines the ways in which learning in higher education can influence a person's modus vivendi or way of life. The cases of three individuals following transition to higher education from an apprenticeship in England are presented. Data from individual interviews were analysed according to approaches to reflexivity. In all three cases,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Life Style, Semi Structured Interviews
Liversage, Lindi; Naudé, Luzelle; Botha, Anja – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
In this study, black South African first-generation students' experiences related to identity development during their first year at a higher education institution were explored. Chickering and Reisser's [1993. "Education and Identity." 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass] seven-vector identity development theory served as overarching…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Reflection, College Freshmen, African American Students
Bakirlioglu, Yekta; Ogur, Dilruba; Dogan, Cagla; Turhan, Senem – Design and Technology Education, 2016
Understanding people's experiences and the context of use of a product at the earliest stages of the design process has in the last decade become an important aspect of both the design profession and design education. Generative design research helps designers understand user experiences, while also throwing light on their current needs,…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Design, Modeling (Psychology), Reflection
Developing Reflective Practice or Judging Teaching Performance? the Implications for Mentor Training
Ingleby, Ewan – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2014
This article draws on reflections offered by 80 post-compulsory education and training initial teacher training (PCET ITT) mentors on a mentor-training programme that has been designed by a UK higher education institution and delivered to its four partner colleges since October 2009. The findings are based on questionnaire data that has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Higher Education, Questionnaires
Lykkegaard, Eva; Ulriksen, Lars – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
During the past 30 years, Eccles' comprehensive social-psychological Expectancy-Value Model of Motivated Behavioural Choices (EV-MBC model) has been proven suitable for studying educational choices related to Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Mathematics (STEM). The reflections of 15 students in their last year in upper-secondary school…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, STEM Education, Foreign Countries, Reflection
Nguyen, Tham T. H.; Walker, Melanie – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
This paper explores the alignment of assessment practices in universities and lifelong learning as a key process and outcome for expansive student development. It outlines Boud's approach to assessment, operationalises this to analyse practices in two contrasting national contexts: the sociology departments of the Midlands University in the UK and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
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
Barrett, Michelle C. Sterk – Journal of Catholic Education, 2016
Cultivating spiritual development is central to the mission of Catholic higher education institutions. Studies demonstrate that service learning is a pedagogical method through which spiritual development can be fostered among undergraduates. This study builds upon prior research to analyze whether spiritual growth occurred and which dimensions of…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Higher Education, Spiritual Development, Service Learning
Lahtinen, Aino-Maija; Pehkonen, Leila – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
The study describes the advancement of the epistemological beliefs of university students. After obtaining interesting research results on changes in students' (N = 170) conceptions of learning from Jan Meyer's Reflections on Learning Inventory, we carried out a qualitative study using a focus group interview of seven students. The purpose was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Higher Education, Epistemology
Dismore, Harriet – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2014
The credential landscape of vocational and higher education in the UK has expanded in recent years, alongside a rise in the number of students undertaking qualifications and a steady increase in tuition fees. The transition from an apprenticeship to higher education is one example of the progression from vocational to higher education. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Higher Education
Matsumoto, Yumi – Teacher Development, 2016
This case study investigates how an ESL teacher's activity of self-directed journal writing can facilitate learning and function as a mediational tool for teacher professional development. The participant for this study is a native English speaker who taught an ESL freshman writing course in an American university. Since he had little time to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Manarin, Karen; McGrath, April; Carey, Miriam – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2016
This article describes a model for supporting undergraduate research that can be adapted for very different classroom contexts; we implemented this model in a first-year general education composition class, a second-year Psychology class and a fourth-year English literature seminar. We examine student work created for each class as well as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
Benson, Robyn; Heagney, Margaret; Hewitt, Lesley; Crosling, Glenda; Devos, Anita – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
This paper reports on a longitudinal project examining how a group of students from diverse backgrounds succeeded in higher education. The project explored participants' pathways into higher education, how they managed their studies, and their reflections at course completion. In this paper, the concept of perspective transformation is used to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Success, Transformative Learning, Longitudinal Studies
Lucas, Miguel – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Counselors at a public community college who teach a first-year college success course to developmental education students do not have effective opportunities or a systematic method to develop their teaching practice. Moreover, like a majority of community college and university instructors, many counselors do not have formal training in…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Higher Education
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