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Educational Needs and Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: The Voices of Adolescents, Parents and Caregivers
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Mayen, Sandrine; Lagouanelle-Simeoni, Marie-Claude; Cote, José; Fonte, David; Reynaud, Rachel; Gentile, Stéphanie; Colson, Sébastien – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe the needs of adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus for acquiring self-care and psychosocial skills for the progressive self-management of the disease, as a prelude to the development of an educational programme. The parents and health care professionals who supported young people were also…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Diabetes, Adolescents, Self Management
Poor Learning-Related Resource Management and Psychological Inflexibility as Predictors of Procrastination in First-Year University Students
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Martinie Marie-Amélie; Rebecca Shankland – Cogent Education, 2023
Poor academic performance is known to be linked to the tendency to procrastinate. The latter is thought to reflect deficits in effort regulation and study time management (i.e. learning-related resources), but some recent results have suggested that it could stem from psychological inflexibility. The main objective of the present study was thus to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Foreign Countries, Time Management, Study Habits
The Impact of Self-Regulation in the Governance of European Higher Education Systems on Quality and Equity
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Sabzalieva, Emma; Roser, Jaime; Mutize, Takudzwa – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2023
Self-regulation in the governance of higher education systems is often assumed to improve institutional performance, accountability, and responsiveness. Although studies of higher education governance have addressed the extent of self-regulation across national systems, there has been less investigation of the links between self-regulation and…
Descriptors: Self Management, Governance, Higher Education, Educational Quality
Freedom of Choice Contrasted with Course Ownership - Students' and Academic Staff's Understanding of Learner Autonomy in a Select Engineering School
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Jonathan Kaplan; Christian Hoffmann; Laurent Cosnefroy – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Discussion of learner autonomy has often been led by educationalists and policy makers. How do learners interpret the notion? This question, as well as addressing how students' understandings compared to those of their instructors' were the questions that the research sought to answer. The research undertook to explore the notion of the autonomous…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Engineering Education, Personal Autonomy
Predictors of Procrastination in First-Year University Students: Role of Achievement Goals and Learning Strategies
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Martinie, Marie-Amélie; Potocki, Anna; Broc, Lucie; Larigauderie, Pascale – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
Procrastination could be conceptualized as a self-regulation failure. However, it is still not clear what type of self-regulation processes are precisely underlying the students' tendency to procrastinate. The main objective of our study was therefore to predict variations in academic procrastination by considering two constructs related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Time Management, Predictor Variables
From Disorganised Study Methods to Disorganisation: New Perspectives on a Neglected Study Strategy
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Cosnefroy, Laurent – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
"Disorganisation" refers to the difficulty that some learners have developing an organised approach to studying. The aim of the present study was to explore antecedents and consequences of disorganisation and individual differences in how disorganisation occurs. A questionnaire was administered to 177 French first-year students enrolled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, STEM Education, Study Habits
Enhancing MOOC Learners' Skills for Self-Directed Learning
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Zhu, Meina – Distance Education, 2021
The management of self-directed learning is especially critical for massive open online course (MOOC) learners. This mixed-method study investigated MOOC instructors' strategies to facilitate learners' self-management skills for SDL. The study used three data sources: (a) an online survey with 198 MOOC instructors; (b) semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education