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D'Eon, Marcel; Yasinian, Maryam – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
In this article, we propose a new model of student workload. We conducted an extensive literature review of student workload, its impact on students' lives, factors influencing student workload, objective and subjective measurements. The previous conceptualizations of student workload conflate student work and course workload, two related but…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Learning Processes, Barriers
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Bone, Elisa K.; Reid, Robert J. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2011
Students in their first year of university face a number of transition issues that can make realising their academic potential difficult. In the sciences, first-year courses cover a large amount of material across broad subject areas, which can make them troublesome for students without background knowledge, and students need to adapt to typically…
Descriptors: High Schools, Prior Learning, Chemistry, Course Content