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Yung-Chuan Lee – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
The aim of this study was to explore how first-time problem-based learning (PBL) participants can improve their learning outcomes. Empirical results showed that students with higher academic performance and attendance rates significantly enhanced their critical thinking and problem-solving skills through PBL compared to traditional lecture-based…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Money Management, Financial Education, Problem Based Learning
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Anas Hajar; Almira Tabaeva – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Private tutoring (PT) has significantly expanded worldwide in recent decades. Despite its popularity and implications for the operation of formal education systems and cultural and social development, research on English private tutoring (EPT) is still in its infancy. Guided by Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory (1994), this mixed-methods study is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, English (Second Language), Elementary School Students
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Ng, Oi-Lam; Ting, Fridolin; Lam, Wai Hung; Liu, Minnie – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
It has been well documented that active learning (AL) improves student learning outcomes in education. This quasi-experimental study explores the effect of active learning on students' knowledge of calculus concepts, in the form of the Calculus Concept Inventory (CCI), regular assignment scores, and test scores, during an 8-week calculus tutorial…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Tutorial Programs
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Coniam, David – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This article reports a case study of students attending a fee-paying private tutorial school in Hong Kong in 2009-2010. They were retaking the Year 11 English language public examination, attempting to improve grades obtained in 2008-2009. The mainly qualitative study extends an earlier quantitative study (Coniam Recent developments in English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Education, Tutorial Programs, Case Studies