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Brearley, Francis Q.; Cullen, W. Rod – Bioscience Education, 2012
The provision of timely and constructive feedback is increasingly challenging for busy academics. Ensuring effective student engagement with feedback is equally difficult. Increasingly, studies have explored provision of audio recorded feedback to enhance effectiveness and engagement with feedback. Few, if any, of these focus on purely formative…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Assignments, Feedback (Response), Formative Evaluation
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Wooten, Tommy; Dillard-Eggers, Jane – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2013
In our research we investigate the use of online homework in principles of accounting classes where some classes required online homework while other classes did not. Users of online homework, compared to nonusers, had a higher grade point average and earned a higher grade in class. On average, both required and not-required users rated the online…
Descriptors: Investigations, Homework, Accounting, Intermode Differences
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Oliveras, B.; Márquez, C.; Sanmartí, N. – Research in Science Education, 2014
This research analyses what happens when a critical reading activity based on a press article dealing with an energy-related problem is implemented with two groups of students of 13-14 years old and 16-17 years old in the same school (a total of 117 students). Specifically, the research analyses the students' profiles from the standpoint of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mass Media, News Reporting, Information Sources
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Choy, Siew Chee; Sedhu, Daljeet Singh; Liew, Yow Lin; Lee, Mun Yee; Malenee, Audrey; Anuar, Norkhadirah – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2015
Purpose: The reason many Asian students find student-centred learning challenging may be due to cultural factors present in every human interaction between individuals. This study attempts to determine the influence of these cultural factors on students' awareness of how and why they learn. Method: A sample of 12 students enrolled in a two year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Asian Culture, Student Centered Learning
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Lowman, Joneen – Computers in the Schools, 2014
The study investigated the impact of podcasts and vodcasts accessed through an iPod on fourth-and sixth-grade students' vocabulary acquisition. Students were randomly assigned to either a podcast group or a vodcast group. Regardless of group assignment, each student completed three six-minute podcasts or vodcasts a day for three days. On average,…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Technology Uses in Education, Grade 4, Grade 6
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Cummins, Stephen; Burd, Liz; Hatch, Andrew – Computer Science Education, 2011
This article presents an investigation into the usage of shareable feedback tags as a way of delivering feedback to three different cohorts of programming students. A series of research questions are examined; these include investigating any perceived benefit from students using feedback tags and exploring how students interact with their…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Programming, Investigations, Student Behavior
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Tucker, Richard – Higher Education Research and Development, 2009
This paper investigates the relationship between learning style, as determined by Kolb's Learning Style Inventory, age and one measure of academic performance in design assignments for two cohorts of first- and third-year architecture students. The paper focuses on the results of a cross-curriculum learning style survey conducted as part of a…
Descriptors: Assignments, Learning Problems, Cognitive Style, Academic Achievement