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Yokoyama, Mai; Miwa, Kazuhisa – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine conception of learning and learning behavior for each goal orientation type from the multiple-goals perspective and to clarify the characteristics of each type. Questionnaire surveys were conducted with fourth-year undergraduate students, and responses for 340 students were analyzed. We created four types,…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, College Seniors, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation
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Yokoyama, Mai; Miwa, Kazuhisa – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
This study examined the causal relationship of goal orientation and conception of learning on learning behavior; previously, these concepts were examined separately in preceding studies. A sample of 185 fourth-grade university students participated in the study. A covariance structure analysis revealed that the causal effect regarding goal…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, College Students, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Yokoyama, Mai; Miwa, Kazuhisa – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
In order to clarify the effects of teachers' Educational Policy on students' Learning-as-duty Conception, we examined the effects of interaction between teachers' Educational Policy and students' Learning Goal Orientation on Learning-as-duty Conception of the students. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 50 teachers and 189 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Interaction, Goal Orientation, Undergraduate Students
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Fushikida, Wakako – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate the solutions that faculty members resort to by trial and error in certain challenges presented to them in undergraduate seminars for second, third, and fourth year students. The research questions used were as follows: (1) what kind of problems do faculty members face; and (2) how faculty members try to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Seminars, College Faculty, Educational Improvement
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Watanabe, Hiroyuki; Goda, Yoshiko; Shimada, Atsushi; Yamada, Masanori – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2021
Learning assistance is an essential part of higher education. Tutors, the core of the assistance staff, need to have learning assistance skills. If the potential for these skills can be identified when selecting tutors, the training method will be more efficient. Also, learning assistance skills are thought to be related to learning skills.…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Higher Education, Tutors, Learning Processes
Cordilia, Ann – 1989
Japanese universities have been characterized by critics as "leisurelands" where students concentrate too much on amusements and too little on learning. While university experience for Japanese students does not always result in acquiring testable academic knowledge as efficiently as in high school, the university does provide a setting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation