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Teachers' Practices and Opinions on Distance Education: The Case of Europe
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Gülin Kizikli; Gülay Ekici – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2024
The use of rapidly developing mass media in the education process has revealed the concept of distance education, the importance and necessity of which have been re-understood throughout the world during COVID-19. The purpose of this study is to determine teacher practices in distance education and to examine teacher views on distance education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education
The Psychobiological Model of Personality and Its Association with Student Approaches to Learning: Integrating Temperament and Character
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Moreira, Paulo A. S.; Inman, Richard Anthony; Rosa, Inês; Cloninger, Kevin; Duarte, António; Robert Cloninger, C. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Personality results from the complex interactions among multiple learning and memory systems. There is a need to examine the personality-learning association using a personality model that captures this complexity: Cloninger's psychobiological model. The study addresses this need using a person-centered approach. In total, 686 adolescents…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Psychological Patterns, Biology, Adolescents
Enhancing Self-Regulation and Approaches to Learning in First-Year College Students: A Narrative-Based Programme Assessed in the Iberian Peninsula
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Rosario, Pedro; Nunez, Jose C.; Gonzalez-Pienda, Julio; Valle, Antonio; Trigo, Luisa; Guimaraes, Carina – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2010
A programme to enhance first-year college students' self-regulated learning strategies is proposed and assessed in two samples, one from the University of Oviedo (Spain) and the other from the University of Minho (Portugal). Each sample was divided into two groups (experimental and control). The Spanish sample comprised 44 students in the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Learning Strategies, Learning Processes
Conceptions of Learning and Approaches to Learning in Portuguese Students
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Duarte, Antonio M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2007
The article describes a study that attempted to characterise Portuguese students' conceptions of learning and approaches to learning. A sample of university students answered open questions on the meaning, process and context of learning. Results, derived from content analysis, replicate most conceptions of learning described by phenomenographical…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Students' Questions: Building a Bridge between Kolb's Learning Styles and Approaches to Learning
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de Jesus, Helena T. Pedrosa; Almeida, Patricia Albergaria; Teixeira-Dias, Jose Joaquim; Watts, Mike – Education & Training, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the types of questions that students ask during the learning of chemistry; discuss the role of students' questions in the process of constructing knowledge, and investigate the relationship between students' questions, approaches to learning, and learning styles. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Chemistry, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
An Analysis of Question Asking on Scientific Texts Explaining Natural Phenomena.
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Costa, Jorge; Caldeira, Helena; Gallastegui, Juan R.; Otero, Jose – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000
Presents the results of a study on questions invoked to correct declarative knowledge deficits while readers processed science texts explaining natural phenomena. Focuses on finding out what kind of questions are asked by students who read these texts and how task demand influences the quantity and quality of formulated questions. (Contains 42…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Junior High Schools