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Ounissi, Amine; Romly, Raihana; Tajuddin, Azza Jauhar Ahmad; Hasan, Md. Kamrul – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
The prevalence of COVID-19 worldwide and the length of the global lockdown period deeply affected students' academic study. This unexpected scenario posed a challenge to a considerable number of academic institutions around the world to formally adopt a new education system based on e-learning platforms. Therefore, this study aims to investigate…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Kayla Haweny; Erika I. Sodeika; Sasha B. Monaco; Morgan Botknecht; Martin Heesacker – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2025
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to evaluate whether the use of social media by college students is linked with diminished academic productivity, and if so, why? Background: In prior research, social media use was inversely related to academic productivity. We replicated that effect and tested whether depletion sensitivity, delay discounting,…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Productivity, Academic Achievement
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Yanping Ma; Gail Tang – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
We believe that developing cultural competencies can help students learn mathematics and conversely that learning mathematical content can help students learn about themselves and others. Using frameworks introduced by Rendón (2009) and Gutiérrez (2018), we present a five-part bundle of activities for undergraduate differential equations course…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Advanced Courses, Correlation
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Ramadhanti, Dina; Yanda, Diyan Permata – International Journal of Language Education, 2021
One of the factors that can affect the ability to write explanatory text is metacognitive awareness. By using the descriptive method, the students' level of metacognitive awareness was explained, and by using the correlational method the effect of metacognitive awareness towards explanatory text writing ability was explained. The results showed…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Correlation, Writing Skills, Writing Assignments
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Zong, Zheng; Schunn, Christian D.; Wang, Yanqing – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
Peer review is regularly found to be a powerful and efficient technique for assessment and feedback, but many students are inexperienced and sometimes struggle to provide meaningful feedback. It is considered best practice to provide students with some training on how to be a good reviewer, but few classes can afford to devote much time to such…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Writing Assignments, Feedback (Response)
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Ma-Kellams, Christine; Kwon, Roy – Teaching of Psychology, 2022
Objective: How do learning communities influence academic performance in Introductory Psychology? Method: The present research examines the relationship between participation in first-year students learning communities and academic performance across a variety of course requirements (midterms, finals, papers, and class participation) in…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Introductory Courses, Sociology
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Rao Bhagavathula, Venugopala; Bhagavathula, Viswakanth; Moinis, Rohan S.; Chaudhuri, Joydeep Dutta – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2022
The study of neuroanatomy imposes a significant cognitive load on students since it includes huge factual information and therefore demands diverse learning strategies. In addition, a significant amount of teaching is carried out through human brain demonstrations, due to limited opportunities for cadaveric dissection. However, reports suggest…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Neurology, Science Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Magner, Brigid – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
Visual analysis is a commonplace technique in geography pedagogy yet it is rarely used in the Australian literary studies context. This article explores the potential for visual analysis to contribute to the shared understanding of a work of literature in a university classroom setting. The use of visual analysis geography can encourage students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Geography Instruction, Literature, Undergraduate Students
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Wakhata, Robert; Balimuttajjo, Sudi; Mutarutinya, Védaste – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2023
This is an exploratory study considering instructional methods in mathematics education. The study examined misconceptions arising from selected assignments undertaken by sixty-five students. The students were attending a calculus mathematical course unit on limits of functions, in different academic areas offered at selected tertiary institutions…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions, Calculus
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Payne, Michael S.; Leary, Rameca V. – Leadership and Research in Education, 2020
167 final writing projects from bachelor level Leadership courses were analyzed to find a correlation of success rates between pre-completed business and professional communication courses. The test statistic was close to an outlier on a one-tail test with a probability of 5.318948%, which meant the outcome of this study was quite close to null…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Leadership Training, Correlation, State Colleges
Canning, Elizabeth A.; Harackiewicz, Judith M.; Priniski, Stacy J.; Hecht, Cameron A.; Tibbetts, Yoi; Hyde, Janet S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
One way to encourage performance and persistence in STEM fields is to have students write about the utility value (UV) or personal relevance of course topics to their life. This intervention has been shown to increase engagement and performance in introductory courses. However, questions remain about the longevity of the effects and how best to…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Biology, Science Instruction, Academic Persistence
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Goodman, Kevin; Davis, Julian; McDonald, Thomas – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
In an effort to motivate undergraduate engineering students to prepare for class by reviewing material before lectures, a "Look-Ahead" problem was utilized. Students from two undergraduate engineering courses; Statics and Electronic Circuits, were assigned problems from course material that had not yet been covered in class. These…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Assignments, Reading Assignments
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Körhasan, Nilüfer Didis – Science Education International, 2021
Peer instruction (PI) involves interaction between students and provides opportunities for students to reveal their own ideas, articulate their thinking, and facilitate construction of their knowledge with social interaction. Since the classroom environment of PI provides a rich information for students to discuss scientific phenomena, this…
Descriptors: Correlation, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Schemata (Cognition)
Soohye Yeom – ProQuest LLC, 2023
With the wide introduction of English-medium instruction (EMI) to higher education institutions throughout East Asian countries, many East Asian universities are using English proficiency tests that were not originally designed for this context to make admissions and placement decisions. To support the use of these tests in this new EMI context,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests
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Chang, Chuan-Chi; Wei, Li-Wei – English Language Teaching, 2022
Although the behavior and impacts of instructor reflection in writing classes have been extensively studied over the past few decades, a significant proportion of the work has concentrated on students' attitudes and utilization of all such responses, as opposed to teachers' perspectives, self-assessments, and actual text comments given. Research…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Assignments, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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