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Using Students' Motivational and Learning Profiles in Investigating Their Perceptions and Achievement in Case-Based and Lecture-Based Learning Environments
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Baeten, Marlies; Dochy, Filip; Struyven, Katrien – Educational Studies, 2012
A teaching method may not work for all students. Therefore, attention should be paid to the type of students entering the learning environment in order to explain how they perceive the learning environment and achieve. This study investigates students' perceptions and achievement in four learning environments that differed in the degree to which…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Profiles, Student Attitudes, Child Development
Explaining Students' Appraisal of Lectures and Student-Activating Teaching: Perceived Context and Student Characteristics
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Struyven, Katrien; Dochy, Filip; Janssens, Steven – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
During lectures, some students are continuously focused and attentive, whereas others tend to be bored, jittery, or inattentive. The same might happen when students are given student-activating assignments. Some students simply love one type of instruction, whereas others tend to resent it. Moreover, it is not the context itself, but the context…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Active Learning, Student Evaluation, Multiple Choice Tests
Students' Experiences with Contrasting Learning Environments: The Added Value of Students' Perceptions
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Struyven, Katrien; Dochy, Filip; Janssens, Steven; Gielen, Sarah – Learning Environments Research, 2008
This study investigated the effects of two contrasting learning environments on students' course experiences: a lecture-based setting to a student-activating teaching environment. In addition, the evaluative treatment involved five research conditions that went together with one of four assessment modes, namely, portfolio, case-based, peer…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals), Lecture Method, Educational Environment
Students' Likes and Dislikes regarding Student-Activating and Lecture-Based Educational Settings: Consequences for Students' Perceptions of the Learning Environment, Student Learning and Performance
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Struyven, Katrien; Dochy, Filip; Janssens, Steven – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2008
This paper aims to investigate students' likes and dislikes of the teaching that they have experienced and its effects on students' perceptions of the learning environment, student learning and academic performance. The study compares a lecture-based setting to a student-activating learning/teaching environment, considering both instructional and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Lecture Method, Interest Research
New Learning Environments and Constructivism: The Students' Perspective
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Gijbels, David; van de Watering, Gerard; Dochy, Filip; van den Bossche, Piet – Instructional Science: An International Journal of Learning and Cognition, 2006
Research into students' perceptions of their learning environments reveals the impact of these perceptions on the way students cope with these learning environments. Consequently, students' perceptions affect the results of their learning. This study aims to investigate whether students in a new learning environment (NLE) perceive it to be more…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Constructivism (Learning), Student Attitudes, Comparative Analysis