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Allowing Learners to Choose: Self-Controlled Practice Schedules for Learning Multiple Movement Patterns
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Wu, Will F. W.; Magill, Richard A. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2011
For this study, we investigated the effects of self-controlled practice on learning multiple motor skills. Thirty participants were randomly assigned to self-control or yoked conditions. Participants learned a three-keystroke pattern with three different relative time structures. Those in the self-control group chose one of three relative time…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Error Patterns, Learner Controlled Instruction, Self Management
Affect and Digital Learning at the University Level
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Katz, Yaacov J.; Yablon, Yaacov B. – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to examine the efficiency of SMS based cell-phone vocabulary learning as compared to email vocabulary delivery and snail mail vocabulary delivery at the university level. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 241 first year university students studied English vocabulary in their mandatory English foundation…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Student Attitudes, Vocabulary, Learning Strategies
Influences of Family Based Prerequisites, Reading Attitude, and Self-Regulation on Reading Ability
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Swalander, Lena; Taube, Karin – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2007
This study investigated the effect of self-regulated learning, as indicated by academic self-concept, motivation and learning strategies, reading attitude and family based prerequisites on reading ability. Students (n=4018) in the eighth grade answered the IEA reading literacy test, the self-regulated learning questionnaire and a student…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Questionnaires, Self Efficacy, Reading Ability
Challenging Student Approaches to ESL Vocabulary Development.
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Lessard-Clouston, Michael – TESL Canada Journal, 1994
Describes the use of a questionnaire on ESL (English-as-a-Second-Language) students' methods of vocabulary learning as a springboard for class discussion of helpful strategies suggested in the literature. Background for the activity is described, procedures and results are outlined, and suggestions for using a similar questionnaire in other ESL…
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discussion (Teaching Technique)
An Integrated Learning System in an Elementary School: Implementation, Attitudes, and Results.
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Alifrangis, Catherine – 1990
This study examined a state-of-the-art computer-based integrated learning system to determine its conformance to research findings on effective learning practices; to describe its implementation in an elementary school setting; and to assess changes in students' achievement in either mathematics or reading. Pretest/posttest data were supplemented…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Elementary Education
Using Collaboration in Support of Distance Learning.
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Levin, David S.; Ben-Jacob, Marion G. – 1998
Trends in pedagogy and in technology are converging to make distance learning environments of the 21st century. Trends in pedagogy have encouraged the movement away from the learner as a passive recipient of information and toward a more active model of learning. Earlier generations of distance learning media and methods were ill-suited to the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning