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Marloes Broeren; Peter Verkoeijen; Lidia Arends; Guus Smeets – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2024
Effective cognitive learning strategies are beneficial for learning and long-term retention. However, higher education students often rely on surface-level strategies like reading and underlining. Interventions to support effective cognitive strategy use have addressed knowledge, beliefs, planning, and commitment. This latter aspect and its…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, College Students, Student Motivation, Cognitive Processes
Jelena N. Larsen; Kine M. D. Maxwell; Mohammad Khalil – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2025
Effective learning design (LD) grounded in sound pedagogy is a critical driver of student success. Therefore, it is important to explore how LD of online learning environments influences student ability to manage their own learning. This understanding can inform the development of online programs that prioritize student-driven learning. Research…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Learning Analytics, Instructional Design, Student Motivation
Meina Zhu; Sarah Berri; Rose Koda; Yi-jung Wu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The past ten years have witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of online courses, and the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly accelerated online education. Many students and instructors were unprepared for online learning. In particular, online learners are expected to employ self-directed learning (SDL) skills to succeed. This qualitative study…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Independent Study, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
Wolters, Christopher A.; Brady, Anna C. – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
Despite its recognized importance for academic success, much of the research investigating time management has proceeded without regard to a comprehensive theoretical model for understanding its connections to students' engagement, learning, or achievement. Our central argument is that self-regulated learning provides the rich conceptual framework…
Descriptors: College Students, Time Management, Independent Study, Student Motivation
Zhu, Meina; Bonk, Curtis J.; Berri, Sarah – Online Learning, 2022
Given the increasing number of learners in massive open online courses (MOOCs), students' self-directed learning (SDL) skills are necessary for their success. The purpose of this study was to explore learners' motivation for enrolling in MOOCs and their SDL strategies, as well as instructional elements that support SDL from learners' perspectives.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Independent Study, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies
Öztürk, Mücahit – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of self-regulated programming learning on undergraduate students' academic performance and motivation compared to traditional methods. Design/methodology/approach: This study was conducted with an explanatory sequential mixed method. Participants consist of 31 undergraduate students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, Independent Study
Katrina E. Forbes-McKay; Pauline A. M. Bremner; Pamela Johnston; Carol Air – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This study addresses gaps in the existing literature on students' understanding of Independent Learning (IL), whilst exploring the link between levels of IL, growth mindset, motivated strategies for learning and academic performance. Design/methodology/approach: Three hundred and eighty-six university students recruited via opportunistic…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies
Caroline Victorine Katemba – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2025
This study investigates the effectiveness of individual versus group annotation procedures in improving reading comprehension among students learning English as a foreign language. The study aims to examine the effects of two annotation procedures, individual and group annotations, on students' reading comprehension and analyze their reactions to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Documentation, Cooperative Learning, Independent Study
Mariam Revishvili; Mzia Tsereteli – Cogent Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the psychological mechanism of self-regulated learning in a technology-enhanced learning environment and to develop a comprehensive model of its function. As a theoretical approach, we used Pintrich's model of Self-regulated learning. The mixed research methods were used in this study. First, we conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Independent Study, Technology Integration
Brady, Anna C.; Kim, Yeo-eun; Cutshall, Jessica – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2021
College students do not study in isolated environments; rather, they encounter obstacles as they complete academic tasks. Using a qualitative approach, the present study explored the distractions and underlying causes students face as well as the strategies they use to control these distractions. Our findings suggested that students' distractions,…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Independent Study, College Students, Learning Strategies
Isik, Burcu; Atasoy, Basri – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
This study tackles self-regulated learning from the motivation component, considering that not only the 'skills' but also the 'will' dimensions are essential for the development of self-regulated learning. The aim of the study is to promote pre-service chemistry teachers' motivation and to enhance their knowledge of motivational regulation…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Student Motivation
Maltais, Christine; Bouffard, Thérèse; Vezeau, Carole; Dussault, Frédéric – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2021
The nature of the links between students' motivation and their perception of parental concern about school performance is still controversial, and whether these links affect long-term self-directed learning behaviors and academic performance remains unclear. We tested the reciprocal associations between parental concern about performance and…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies
Han, Feifei; Ellis, Robert A. – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This study investigated the extent to which self-report and digital-trace measures of students' self-regulated learning in blended course designs align with each other amongst 145 first-year computer science students in a blended "computer systems" course. A self-reported Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire was used to…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Independent Study, College Freshmen, Blended Learning
Cleary, Timothy J. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2021
The overall purpose of the current paper was to examine the social validity perceptions of middle school students and school personnel (i.e., school psychologist, counselors, assistant principal) regarding the importance of effects and appropriateness of an academic, self-regulated learning (SRL) intervention called the Self-Regulation Empowerment…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Independent Study
Wang, Jingying; Jou, Min – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
As mobile learning (ML) becomes more and more popular, teaching methods are gradually adapting to flipped classrooms or micro-flipped classrooms. Many studies have discussed the influence of ML-based flipped classrooms on students' learning in a macroscopic way. However, at the micro-level, the impact of these classrooms on students' emotional…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Emotional Development, Cognitive Processes