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de Back, Tycho T.; Tinga, Angelica M.; Louwerse, Max M. – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2021
Immersive virtual reality is increasingly regarded as a viable means to support learning. Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVEs) support immersive learning in groups of learners, and is of potential interest for educational institutions searching for novel ways to bolster learning in their students. In previous work we have shown that the use…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
Chen Zong – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A predictive model of undergraduate graduation rate at the institutional level is important and useful to researchers, administrators, and policy makers in higher education. Graduation rate is a key indicator for higher education institutional performance. This study aimed to replicate, revise, and validate the model of Institutional Performance…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduation Rate, Public Colleges, Structural Equation Models
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Alt, Dorit – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2017
The aim of this study was to assess the connection between students' perceived constructivist learning environment and their involvement in activities unrelated to class work via social media engagement (SME), while considering the moderating role of their openness to diversity and challenge (ODC) in explaining both variables. Another aim was to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Educational Environment, Social Media, Constructivism (Learning)
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Omar, El-Nour; Drewsh, Azhari; Ahmed, Abdomalik – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2018
The main purpose of the present study is to predict the relationship between motivation , anxiety, perceived satisfaction and Second Life within asynchronous learning environment specifically in EFL course. Data of the present study were collected from undergraduate students - Sudan University of Technology and Science (SUST) in Sudan. The…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Student Motivation, Anxiety, Computer Simulation
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Karagiannopoulou, Evangelia; Milienos, Fotios S. – Educational Psychology, 2015
The study explores the relationships between students' experiences of the teaching-learning environment and their approaches to learning, and the effects of these variables on academic achievement. Two three-stage models were tested with structural equation modelling techniques. The "Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Educational Environment
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Kurtulmus, Mehmet – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
The aim of this research is to examine the effect of diversity climate perception on alienation of students to university. The research was carried out with relational survey model. 333 undergraduate students in Faculty of Education, Medical, and Faculty of Theology of Dicle University constituted the participant group. Research data were…
Descriptors: Alienation, Undergraduate Students, Structural Equation Models, Goodness of Fit
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Zhai, Xuesong; Gu, Jibao; Liu, Hefu; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the flipped classroom model, and many flipped programs have been funded and implemented to explore the effectiveness of this new model. However, previous studies centering on comparative assessment have indicated that it is not always entirely successful in terms of promoting students'…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Homework
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Yin, Hongbiao; Wang, Wenlan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
Assessing and improving the quality of undergraduate teaching is an important issue in China. Using the Course Experience Questionnaire, this study examined the quality of undergraduate teaching by investigating the relationships between students' course experience, the learning outcomes demonstrated by the students and the learning environment.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Jaeger, Martin; Adair, Desmond – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
The twofold purpose of this study is to identify engineering students' perceptions of a problem-based learning environment and to analyse the influence of their personal "situation," general "interest" in engineering and "ability" to succeed on their perception, after they were exposed to PBL for the first time. Based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Student Interests, Ability
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Asikainen, Henna; Parpala, Anna; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari; Vanthournout, Gert; Coertjens, Liesje – Higher Education Studies, 2014
The aim of the present study is to explore changes both in approaches to learning as well as in students' experiences of the teaching-learning environment and how these changes are related to each other during their Bachelor studies by using a longitudinal data set. The aim is further to explore how students' approaches to learning and their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study, Longitudinal Studies, Learning Processes
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Trigwell, Keith; Ashwin, Paul; Millan, Elena S. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: In separate studies and research from different perspectives, five factors are found to be among those related to higher quality outcomes of student learning (academic achievement). Those factors are higher self-efficacy, deeper approaches to learning, higher quality teaching, students' perceptions that their workload is appropriate,…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy
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Ahmad, Zauwiyah; Anantharaman, R. N.; Ismail, Hishamuddin – Accounting Education, 2012
Professional commitment is significant to the accounting profession as it leads to greater sensitivities towards ethics issues and increases job involvement. This study argues that professional commitment towards accounting profession is developed during tertiary education or at the anticipatory socialization phase. The significance of…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Educational Environment, Work Ethic, Performance Factors
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Payandeh Najafabadi, Amir T.; Najafabadi, Maryam Omidi; Farid-Rohani, Mohammad Reza – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2013
In Iran, high school graduates enter university after taking a very difficult entrance exam called the Konkoor. Therefore, only the top-performing students are admitted by universities to continue their bachelor's education in statistics. Surprisingly, statistically, most of such students fall into the following categories: (1) do not succeed in…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Bayesian Statistics, Performance Factors
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Kember, David; Leung, Doris Y. P. – Research in Higher Education, 2011
Comparisons of large samples of course and teaching evaluation questionnaire data show consistent disciplinary differences. The current study examined the disciplinary differences in a theoretical model positing the impact of the perceived nature of teaching and learning environment on the development of generic capabilities by testing of (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Educational Environment
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Ning, Hoi Kwan; Downing, Kevin – Higher Education Research and Development, 2011
This study examined the interrelationship between student learning experiences and study behaviour in explaining academic achievement. The participants were 541 final year students from a university in Hong Kong. Students' learning experiences and study behaviour were measured using the Course Experience Questionnaire and the Learning and Study…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
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