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Bunce, Louise; Bennett, Melanie – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2021
The marketization of higher education and focus on graduate employability and earnings data has raised questions about how students perceive their roles and responsibilities while studying for their degree. Of particular concern is the extent to which students identify themselves as consumers of their higher education, for example, whether they…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Performance Factors, Learning Strategies, Correlation
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Livingstone, Nicola; Naismith, Nicola – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The role of an academic mentor is typically diverse, discipline specific and institutionally heterogeneous. Mentoring relationships are commonplace, yet the experience and delivery of mentoring in universities reflect a broad spectrum of approaches and execution. This article reflects on the pedagogic evolution of mentoring, examining the student…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Mentors, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty
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Del Río, M. Luisa; Díaz-Vázquez, Rosario; Maside Sanfiz, José M. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The undergraduate dissertation is characterized by a conflict between autonomy and support, in which the role of the supervisor is outlined; however, this role is not consistently defined either in the literature or in practice. As a result, a mismatch may arise between the dedication of the supervisor and the dedication expected from the student,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Theses, Supervisory Methods
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Päuler-Kuppinger, Lena; Jucks, Regina – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2017
This study examines how academics and students from different disciplines perceive teaching and knowledge acquisition. University academics and students from both hard and soft disciplines completed the Domain-specific Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire and the Approaches to Teaching Inventory. Results showed that academics held more…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Questionnaires, Teaching Methods
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Hendry, Graham D.; White, Peter; Herbert, Catherine – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2016
We know from research across all levels of education that feedback and interactive teaching have the greatest positive effect on students' achievement. However, in higher education, teachers' constructive feedback often logistically cannot be delivered in time for all students to apply to future tasks. In this article, we report on a study of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods
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Lin, Shu-Hui; Huang, Yun-Chen – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Teachers, especially their teaching behaviours, play an important role in students' learning and students with a high interest in learning show deeper understanding in the classroom. This study intends to explore how far the teacher's charisma--knowledge, character traits, teaching techniques and humour--contribute to students' interest in…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, College Faculty, College Freshmen, Student Interests
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Morris, Cecile; Chikwa, Gladson – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Very little is known about the impact of the different types of feedback on students' academic performance. This article explores students' preference in the use of audio and written feedback and how each type of feedback received by students impacts their academic performance in subsequent assignments. The study involved 68 students who were…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Preferences, Academic Achievement, Assignments
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Clark, Gordon; Marsden, Rebecca; Whyatt, J. Duncan; Thompson, Leanne; Walker, Marion – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2015
This article explores students' extracurricular activities and, uniquely, their short- and long-term effects on employability. Drawing on the literature, six research questions are identified. A questionnaire and interviews with alumni provide the quantitative and qualitative information needed. The effects of different extracurricular activities…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Employment Potential, Alumni, Questionnaires
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Gerholz, Karl-Heinz; Liszt, Verena; Klingsieck, Katrin B. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Students participate during service learning courses in a service project, which fits to a community need and has a link to curricular content. Students have a chance while engaged in the service project to apply curricular content in community practice, where they gain insights into civic engagement activities. Empirical studies revealed the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Curriculum Design, Teaching Methods, Intervention
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Daniel, Sarah R.; Jordan, Michelle E. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Working in collaborative groups has been shown to have beneficial outcomes; however, these benefits are linked to the quality of group member interactions. "Heedful interrelating," which entails interacting with sensitivity to the task at hand while paying attention to how one's actions affect overall team functioning, is theorized to be…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Mixed Methods Research, Metacognition
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Cornelius, Vanessa; Wood, Leigh; Lai, Jennifer – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Formal mentoring programmes continue to gain popularity in higher education, mirroring trends in industry. The study described in this article examines the design features of a formal mentoring programme for first year undergraduates and focused on three key aspects--the matching process, training and orientation, and interaction frequency. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Peer Relationship
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Kinsella, Gemma K.; Mahon, Catherine; Lillis, Seamus – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2017
The disadvantage to students of beginning a module with no prior knowledge or inaccurate knowledge is well documented. For learners, the development of the necessary prior knowledge to facilitate their learning is essential. The use of screencasts, whether prior to or during class, is becoming more widespread. There is a need, however, to better…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Large Group Instruction, Prior Learning, Technology Uses in Education
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Taras, Maddalena; Davies, Mark S. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Assessment is acknowledged as a central motivator for learning, as being perhaps the most difficult and arduous task for tutors, and also, a defining component of institutional quality, curriculum, courses and degrees. Therefore, given this, surely our understanding of terms, processes and their relationships, which reveal our knowledge of…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Questionnaires
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Chan, Yiu-Kong – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Learning effectiveness requires an understanding of the relationship among extracurricular activities, learning approach and academic performance and, it is argued, this helps educators develop techniques designed to enrich learning effectiveness. Biggs' Presage-Process-Product model on student learning has identified the relationship among…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Outcomes of Education, Case Studies, Academic Achievement
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Chamberlain, John Martyn; Hillier, John; Signoretta, Paola – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2015
This article reports the results of research concerned with students' statistical anxiety and confidence to both complete and learn to complete statistical tasks. Data were collected at the beginning and end of a quantitative method statistics module. Students recognised the value of numeracy skills but felt they were not necessarily relevant for…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Statistical Analysis, Student Attitudes, Statistics
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