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Robert A. Cortes; Mafalda C. B. Peña; Richard J. Daker; Griffin A. Colaizzi; Adam E. Green – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
The role of top-down control in divergent creativity remains heavily debated. An outstanding question about the state dynamics of creativity concerns acute shifts between heightened and lowered creative states. Particularly, do transitions between creative states incur a "switch cost" as observed in other domains of cognition? Prior…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Creativity, Verbs, Cognitive Processes
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Adjin-Tettey, Theodora Dame; Selormey, Daniel; Nkansah, Hannah Aku – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2022
This study makes an original contribution to the literature on social media usage for learning purposes through the phenomenological approach of enquiry. It examined the general motivations for social media usage, how social media is used to meet academic needs, perceived academic benefits, and how social media usage disrupts studies. A total of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Social Media, Educational Needs
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Liu, Yue – Research Studies in Music Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to explore differences in time spent practicing and the practice strategies used by Chinese music majors according to university location, instrument played, and participant gender. A total of 154 participants who played string, woodwind, brass, and keyboard instruments, including 103 participants attending Chinese…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Music Education, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes
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D'Eon, Marcel; Yasinian, Maryam – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
In this article, we propose a new model of student workload. We conducted an extensive literature review of student workload, its impact on students' lives, factors influencing student workload, objective and subjective measurements. The previous conceptualizations of student workload conflate student work and course workload, two related but…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Learning Processes, Barriers
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Li, Junmin – Education Sciences, 2021
Universities face the challenge of constantly improving the quality of higher education and changing the learning behaviour of students, from passive reactive learning to active self-regulated learning. Learner-centred, constructively designed learning tasks offer a great opportunity here. This paper investigates to what extent the learning…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Self Management, Independent Study, Undergraduate Students
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Meehan, Maria; McCallig, John – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2019
We apply Carroll's model of school learning, which theorizes about the relationship between time and learning, to motivate the design of a large, first-year, university mathematics course, where students have the choice to attend lectures and/or watch online videos. The theoretical model informs how the course and resources are designed in order…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Video Technology, Learning Processes, Correlation
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Williams, Dylan P.; Hin, Shane Lo Fan; Erlina – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2019
Recent work on student perceptions of skills development and engagement with different teaching and learning approaches have provided useful evidence bases for practitioners aiming to enhance the student learning experience. Although there has been some useful research on student expectations in non-STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Student Attitudes, Skill Development
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Tseng, Min-Chen – TESOL International Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between self-efficacy and time spent learning English by students in different majors in Taiwan. The participant sample was comprised of 375 students from 20 academic departments at 8 colleges in 3 universities in Taiwan. Eighty-eight students studied at an arts university, 75 at a medical…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kraushaar, James M.; Novak, David C. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2010
This paper examines undergraduate student use of laptop computers during a lecture-style class that includes substantial problem-solving activities and graphic-based content. The study includes both a self-reported use component collected from student surveys as well as a monitored use component collected via activity monitoring…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Lecture Method, Time on Task, Memory
Hodes, Carol L. – 1994
This study investigates the relationship between speed of recognition and accuracy of the responses when visual mental imagery is controlled through imagery instructions. The procedure was to compare the achievement of learners where the independent variable was imagery instructions. The subjects were two 20-person groups of undergraduates from a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Litchfield, Brenda C.; And Others – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1990
Describes study that examined the effects of presentation sequence of examples and example difficulty on undergraduate learning with computer-based instruction. Establishing example difficulty according to a generalization formula versus subject matter experts is discussed, and effects on time on task and the number of examples required are…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Difficulty Level, Generalization
Duffy, T. M.; And Others – 1987
Intended to aid in the design of computer systems that promote efficient learning and performance, this study compared the effects of using hard copy and online format tutorials on the learning activities of 48 undergraduate students in either design or engineering. The tutorials, which provided instruction on the use of the equipment and basic…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Higher Education
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Cennamo, Katherine S.; And Others – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1991
Describes study of undergraduates that investigated learners' preconceptions of the difficulty of interactive video, instructional television, and television. The effects of actively or covertly responding to practice questions on perceived mental effort, recall, and inferences are examined, and correlations between lesson time and inference or…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Concept Formation, Correlation, Educational Television
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Lee, YungBin B.; Lehman, James D. – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1993
Describes a study of undergraduates that investigated the use of hypermedia programs by learners classified as active, passive, or neutral. Two instructional approaches were compared, one utilizing instructional cues and one without instructional cues; and dependent variables including achievement, time on task, and frequency of viewing embedded…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Shyu, Hsin-Yih; Brown, Scott W. – International Journal of Instructional Media, 1992
Discussion of learner-controlled instruction focuses on a study of undergraduates that compared learner control with program control in interactive videodisc instruction for making an origami crane. Student performance, self-efficacy concerning the instructional task, time on task, and student attitudes toward the instruction are examined. (32…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Flow Charts