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Jhon Jairo Ramírez-Echeverry; Felipe Restrepo-Calle; Stephanie Torres Jiménez – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study investigates the self-regulated learning strategies employed by students in computer programming courses. Utilising the Questionnaire on Learning Strategies in Computer Programming (CEAPC), the research aims to identify specific strategies used by students. The findings reveal a variety of effective learning strategies, including…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Learning Strategies, Programming, Computer Science Education
Kong, Siu-Cheung; Liu, Bowen – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
This study implemented and evaluated the innovative use of a performance-based assessment platform to support the development of self-regulated learning (SRL) in senior primary students as they completed programming tasks. We embedded SRL support features into a performance-based assessment platform as scaffolding to help the students implement…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Elementary School Students, Performance Based Assessment, Programming
Forte-Celaya, Jacqueline; Ibarra, Luis; Glasserman-Morales, Leonardo David – Education Sciences, 2021
Educational systems are now focusing on skills enhancement, such as creative thinking skills (CTS), as a means of long-lasting, significant learning. To this end, some universities and higher education institutions incentivize active learning (AL) strategies as CTS developers. Indeed, a positive link among creative results, time availability, and…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Tsubaki, Michiko; Ogawara, Wataru; Tanaka, Kenta – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
This study proposes and examines an analytical method with the aim of improving the quality of education and learning by situating the answers to full descriptive questions in probability and statistics to make variables of learners' comprehension of learned content as answer characteristics, based on actual student mistakes. First, we proposed…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistics, Comprehension, Learning Strategies
Di Camillo, Kirra; Dawson, Vaille – Teaching Science, 2020
This article reports on the explicit introduction of metacognitive strategies by an early career science teacher to support the application of mathematics skills. The research investigated the effectiveness of these strategies with three Year 11 physics students using an action research approach. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Mathematics Skills
Bright, Brittany M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to identify the approaches to learning of the millennial generation and to describe the student's perspective on the relationship that social media and technology has on individual approaches to learning. This study specifically identified the demographic profile of the generational group who were business freshmen…
Descriptors: Social Media, Technology Uses in Education, College Freshmen, Business Administration Education
Grohs, Jacob R.; Knight, David B.; Young, Glenda D.; Soledad, Michelle M. – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2018
Situated in the second year of an engineering curriculum, undergraduate engineering mechanics courses represent a significant barrier to persistence in engineering. This study seeks to inform and improve these educational environments by examining academic performance paths over time in a course and explore how students in each path compare in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Engineering Education, Course Content
Washington, Dora Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study explored the learning experiences of higher education students who suffered childhood trauma (CT). Eleven participants both undergraduate and graduate who attended a Midwestern university self-identified as CT survivors. There was research on the negative impact of CT on learning in children and adolescents, as well as posttraumatic…
Descriptors: Trauma, Learning Experience, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
Dunlosky, John – American Educator, 2013
Before the "big test" did you use the following study strategies: highlighting, rereading, and cramming? As students many of us probably did, yet research shows that while these three strategies are commonly used, they have been ineffective in retaining information. Learning strategies have been discussed in almost every textbook on…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Test Preparation, Time Management, Study Skills
Firn, Jennifer – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2015
Biology is the most rapidly evolving scientific field of the 21st century. Biology graduates must be able to integrate concepts and collaborate outside their discipline to solve the most pressing questions of our time, e.g. world hunger, malnutrition, climate change, infectious disease and biosecurity. University educators are attempting to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Graduates, Undergraduate Students
Gonza´lez, Maritza Lau; Haza, Ulises Ja´uregui; Gramagtes, Aurora Pe´rez; Leo´n, Gloria Farin~as; Le Bolay, Nadine – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
A combination of regular classroom teaching with the use of resources available on the Moodle platform has been designed to foster the development of skills for learning to learn for students in an undergraduate general chemistry course. The use of the Moodle platform essentially aimed at strengthening the students' prior knowledge of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Learning Processes
Solimeno, Andrea; Mebane, Minou Ella; Tomai, Manuela; Francescato, Donata – Computers & Education, 2008
In this paper we compared the efficacy of face-to-face and computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) in increasing academic knowledge and professional competences. We also explored how students' personality characteristics and learning strategies and teachers' characteristics were associated with better learning outcomes in online or…
Descriptors: Time Management, Learning Strategies, Personality Traits, Psychology
Pashler, Harold; Bain, Patrice M.; Bottge, Brian A.; Graesser, Arthur; Koedinger, Kenneth; McDaniel, Mark; Metcalfe, Janet – National Center for Education Research, 2007
This Practice Guide is the third in a series of Institute of Education Sciences (IES) guides in education. Much of teaching is about helping students master new knowledge and skills and then helping students not to forget what they have learned. The recommendations in this practice guide are intended to provide teachers with specific strategies…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Instructional Development, Change Strategies, Learning Strategies
Harvey, Virginia Smith; Chickie-Wolfe, Louise A.; Eads, James B. – Guilford Publications, 2007
Accessible, practical, and empowering, this book gives school professionals the tools to put students in charge of their own learning. Going beyond traditional "study skills" guides that focus on the mechanics of homework completion and test taking, the authors address the underlying psychological factors that influence academic success and…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Lifelong Learning, Academic Achievement, Psychological Characteristics
Metro Tech Technology Centers, Oklahoma City, OK. – 1999
This document, which is intended for vocational educators, contains the materials needed for a group project designed to help students develop the employability skills required to create their own business. The document begins with the scenario for the learning project, during which teams are given a hypothetical $250,000 to form a new business…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Communication Skills, Computer Literacy, Employment Potential