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Phelps, Vicki A. – Roeper Review, 2022
This qualitative cross-case study explores gifted adolescents' perspectives on motivation in learning as a means to better understand their complex motivational and academic needs. Participants consisted of 6 students, ranging in age from 11 to 16, identified as gifted through holistic measures including cognition scores, interviews, and other…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Motivation, Adolescents, Gifted Education
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Hawe, Eleanor; Dixon, Helen – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
The development of students as lifelong, self-regulating learners is a valued outcome of higher education. To this end, the current project investigated how students in an undergraduate course experienced and responded to a teaching-learning environment where they were expected to take responsibility for their learning. The pedagogic environment…
Descriptors: Self Control, Undergraduate Students, Student Centered Learning, Student Responsibility
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Goldman, Crystal; Turnbow, Dominique; Roth, Amanda; Friedman, Lia; Heskett, Karen – Communications in Information Literacy, 2016
This article focuses on the development of an engaging library orientation module for UC San Diego First Year Experience (FYE) courses. The library module included a brief in-class presentation about research concepts and library services, an online interactive library scavenger hunt given as an in-class activity, and a homework assignment where…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Libraries, Orientation, Introductory Courses