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Jinqi Xu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite the many critiques of views that categorise and simplify Chinese international students' use of memorisation as deficient or rote learning, these views persist. Using ethnographic methods to collect data over 18 months, this study identified the key practices employed by students as they negotiated their learning experiences in an…
Descriptors: Memorization, Rote Learning, Learning Experience, Foreign Students
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Xu, Jinqi – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2019
This paper investigates the learning experience of Chinese students' learning experience in the business Faculty of an Australian university. Chinese students are often characterized as "rote learners" or stereotyped as "reduced Other". Areas of concern are limited to addressing the differences in learning styles, language, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, College Students, Business Administration Education
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Yang, Wei-dong; Dai, Wei-ping – International Education Studies, 2012
The findings of the study indicate that students prefer to engage in the vocabulary learning strategies that would be most appealing to them and that would entail less manipulation of the language. Of the four vocabulary memorizing strategies cited in the study (rote repetition, structural associations, semantic strategies, and mnemonic keyword…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies
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Lin, Yi-Chun; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between students' epistemic beliefs in biology and their approaches to learning biology. To this end, two instruments, the epistemic beliefs in biology and the approaches to learning biology surveys, were developed and administered to 520 university biology students, respectively. By and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), College Students, Biology
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Peters, Robert A. – Teaching Public Administration, 2014
Students in two iterations of a statistics course were required to develop work-related research questions that could be analyzed by the statistical techniques discussed in class. They were also expected to present the question and other research design components in a manner that could be comprehended by statistical novices. To provide sufficient…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills, Statistical Analysis
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Rochecouste, Judith; Oliver, Rhonda; Mulligan, Denise; Davies, Martin – Australian Universities' Review, 2011
The English Language Growth (ELG) Project was conducted in five Australian universities in 2008-09 to address the on-going English language development of international students from non-English speaking backgrounds. Using an online survey inviting both qualitative and quantitative responses, 798 international students provided a rich source of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Rote Learning, Metacognition
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Gan, Zhengdong – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
Although cultural stereotypes of Asian students as being prone to rote learning, passive and teacher-dependent have been under criticism, the issue of the extent to which Asian heritage culture impacts on Asian students' learning attitudes and behaviour warrants further investigation. This paper reports on an empirical study which compares…
Descriptors: Asians, Student Attitudes, Stereotypes, Rote Learning
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Mori, Yoshiko; Shimizu, Hideko – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
This study aims at identifying interpretable factors underlying Japanese language learners' attitudes toward "kanji" and their self-reported "kanji" learning strategies. It also examines the relationship between the two sets of belief factors. A questionnaire survey was conducted among Japanese language students at nine universities in the United…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Universities, Learning Strategies, Metacognition
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Watters, Dianne J.; Watters, James J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
This study is an investigation of the epistemological beliefs and study habits of students undertaking first-year courses in Biological Chemistry and Biochemistry. In particular, we were interested in the relationship between students' epistemological beliefs about learning and knowledge, approaches to learning, and achievement. The study adopted…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sciences, Biochemistry, Study Habits
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Wessa, Patrick – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2009
This paper discusses the implementation of a new e-learning environment that supports non-rote learning of exploratory and inductive statistics within the pedagogical paradigm of social constructivism. The e-learning system is based on a new computational framework that allows us to create an electronic research environment where students are…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Feedback (Response), Constructivism (Learning), Learning Strategies
Hargett, Melissa Q.; And Others – 1994
Although research over the past 20 years has examined the dynamics of student learning, most initial studies focused on how scholastic aptitude tests and teacher rating scales predicted academic success. This study attempts to determine the relationship between scholastic aptitude and three approaches to learning: (1) presage; (2) process; and (3)…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, College Students, Higher Education
Canelos, James; And Others – 1982
Two content-independent learning strategies were evaluated to determine their effectiveness in facilitating learning on two types of information-processing tasks, spatial learning and concept learning. The network strategy used imagery with a peg-mnemonic and a hierarchical retrieval system, while the rote strategy elicited a stimulus-response…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation
Gentry, Janine M.; Perry, James S. – 1993
This study examines the relationship between test-wiseness, memory, and grade-point average in college students. Test wiseness is defined as a subject's capacity to utilize the characteristics and format of a test to receive a higher score, independent of the examinee's knowledge of the subject matter. Researchers hypothesized that test-wiseness…
Descriptors: College Students, Grade Point Average, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
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Fraser, W. J.; Nieman, M. M. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1996
A survey of 2,071 first-year students in university distance-education programs found the two most common learning strategies were repetitive reading of course materials and summarization of facts. Wide variation in strategies was found, apparently determined by both learner characteristics and nature and design of instructional materials,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Freshmen, College Students, Course Content