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Cailing Yan – Education & Training, 2025
Purpose: This research aims to construct an Evaluation Scale for Vocational Education Internships (ESVEI) tailored to assess the vocational educational internship experiences from the perspectives of vocational students. It also seeks to investigate the influence of certain factors -- such as gender, family background, educational attainment,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Undergraduate Students, Internship Programs
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Gyllen, Justin G.; Stahovich, Thomas F.; Mayer, Richard E.; Darvishzadeh, Amirali; Entezari, Negin – Metacognition and Learning, 2019
The present work examines the accuracy of self-reports of study time for college students. In a 10-week Mechanical Engineering course, 99 college students accessed their textbook, homework solutions, graded work, and lecture slides via custom software that recorded objective measures of reading time. In addition, the students provided subjective…
Descriptors: College Students, Engineering Education, Study Habits, Reading Habits
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List, Alexandra; Alexander, Patricia A.; Stephens, Lori A. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Three indicators of undergraduate students' (n = 197) source evaluation were investigated as students completed an academic task requiring the use of multiple texts. The source evaluation metrics examined were students' (1) accessing of document information, (2) trustworthiness ratings, and (3) citation in written responses. All three indicators…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Evaluation Methods, Information Sources, Credibility
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Snyder, Kailey; Dinkel, Danae; Schaffer, Connie; Hiveley, Seth; Colpitts, Amanda – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
Classroom physical activity (PA) has been linked to a multitude of health and academic benefits. However, due to barriers such as lack of time and resources many teachers are not implementing classroom PA to the degree they would like to. One innovative solution is to integrate classroom PA into academic concepts. Based on self-determination…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Physical Activities, Integrated Activities, Mathematics Education
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Hodgson, Paula; Pang, Marco Y. C. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
The process of formative assessment in universities has the potential to engage students in reflection and to take greater ownership of their learning. We report on a study involving 104 students taking a statistics course in a degree programme in rehabilitation science in Hong Kong. The assessment strategy was redesigned to include a weekly…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Instructional Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Statistics
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Cronholm, Stefan – Information Systems Education Journal, 2010
This study is about course evaluation in Swedish higher education. Performing course evaluation is regulated in Swedish law. Despite this, only half of the courses are evaluated. The aim of this study is to understand why satisfactory course evaluations not are performed. Problems are identified from a student perspective and the paper provides…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Course Evaluation, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
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Kuh, George D. – Assessment Update, 2005
Student engagement measures make valuable contributions to an institution's assessment program. Combined with other relevant information, such data help to tie together what students and institutions do, student outcomes, and other indicators of institutional performance. The results can be used in a variety of ways, from comparing student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Time on Task, Learning Processes, Student Experience
Simons, Mavis; Erling, Sally – 1986
A writing folder is a resource tool which has been designed to reflect the phases of the writing process and which complements other classroom strategies and teaching methods used to enhance the understanding of this process. A field test was conducted during the 1985-86 school year to gather information on the use of writing folders in 78 North…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Jones, Ann; Petre, Marian – Computers and Education, 1994
Reports the results of a case study of home computing use in an Open University (Great Britain) multimedia course. The use of student questionnaires and journals is described; and student attitudes about relating new information to existing knowledge, retention, transfer of knowledge, the need for reference materials, and time spent are discussed.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Courseware