School dropout is a topical theme in the educational field in the last decade. In the technical field especially, school dropouts currently have alarming rates. To reduce school dropout technical educational institutions, tried to apply some practical solutions like moving mathematics to the 2nd year of study, year tutors to assist/support…

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese international students (CIS) still comprise the largest international cohort in Australian universities. However, limited research has examined perceptions of CIS' learning approaches in Australian universities from the broader context of the students themselves and their Australian lecturers. This study…

Although student voice pedagogies (SVPs) can offer substantive benefits within physical education (PE), a better understanding is needed of how SVPs can be enacted as an everyday pedagogy in PE. The purpose of this research is to offer empirically based examples of how children can be supported to participate in SVPs in primary PE practice. An…

To address the ambiguity regarding learning style preferences as predictors of academic success, this study examines the relationship between learning style preferences, gender, lecture attendance, and academic performance among undergraduate dental students. Learning style preferences using the Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, and Kinesthetic…

There is a long history of interest in individual differences in learning styles. Beginning in the 1960s, academic research endeavors began examining the concept of personalizing teaching as the best scholarship of teaching and learning best practice (SoTL). This current series of interconnected empirical studies take a fresh look at SoTL by…

Self-regulated learning is a multifaceted process that involves cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, affective, and behavioural components. These components are interconnected and influenced by contextual factors that shape the overall learning experience. Self-regulated learning empowers students to take control of their learning by utilising…

This essay examines the effectiveness of flipped classroom approaches in improving learning outcomes among first-year management students at Chinese vocational colleges. Using a quasi-experimental design, the study involved fifty classes with a total of 1,000 students, divided into experimental and control groups. The study aimed to evaluate how…

The aim of this study is to find out the VARK learning styles of students receiving sport sciences education and to investigate their relationship with different variables. 169 undergraduate students studying at Ondokuz Mayis University Yasar Dogu Sport Sciences Faculty participated in this cross-sectional study voluntarily. VARK learning style…

Purpose: This study explores how virtual learners perceive the use of humor in instructor-developed videos and their other factors for learning effectiveness in an online course. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted a set of qualitative methods flowing from lesson study, to pilot study, to self-declaration of a learning style, to…

The aim of this research is to examine the effects of course activities with learning styles and portfolio applications on the attitudes of pre-service science teachers towards biology lesson. The research was studied with 100 teacher candidates in the 2nd grade of Science Teaching at Ondokuz Mayis University. The learning styles of the…

The aim of the study was a verification of statistical hypotheses about the preferences of Ukrainian and Polish Law-students related the method of learning at lectures. There were two groups of Ukrainian Law-students and one group of Polish Law-students. The main research methods were the methods of sociological research. There are statistically…

Recent research has uncovered significant concerns about the validity of some types of college student self-reports. This study examines the extent to which student reports about a critical type of college experience--good teaching practices--may be biased as a function of students' intellectual orientations and cognitive reasoning abilities.…

Teaching biomedical technology is critical for the success of research of both domestic and international postgraduate students (DPSs and IPSs). However, difference in the learning characteristics between the two cohorts as well as appropriate teaching modality remains largely unexplored. In the present work, we studied these issues by recruiting…

Background: Research illustrates that student motivations influence learning engagement, persistence, and achievement in powerful ways and that positive motivations are linked to deeper learning, critical thinking, pro-social behavior, and better performance. Most studies of learner motivation, however, are conducted outside of STEM and are…

This study introduces a new model namely O-P-A (Optical, Physical and Acoustic) model to enhance active learning. The newly proposed model contributes to extend the current literature of the V-K-A model (Visual, Kinaesthetic and Auditory) for active learning. Three activities are implemented at three stages of the research, with each one involves…