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Celia Galve-González; Ana Belén Bernardo; Adrián Castro-López – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
University dropout is a phenomenon of growing interest due to its negative consequences. Various variables have been studied in order to understand why this problem occurs. Satisfaction with the degree choice, self-regulation strategies and engagement within the university are some of the variables that have been studied in order to understand why…
Descriptors: College Students, Potential Dropouts, Decision Making, Student Attitudes
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Georgeta Ion; Anna Díaz-Vicario; Cristina Mercader – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Group work benefits student learning in many ways, but group work assessment may be challenging for academics and sometimes is perceived as less fair than individually set assessment tasks. Peer assessment (PA) and self assessment (SA) represents a possible approach supporting lecturers and students to better differentiate individual contributions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Group Activities, Education Majors, Student Attitudes
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Souto-Otero, Manuel; García-Álvarez, Jesus; Rego, Miguel Angel Santos – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
This study aims to fill a gap in our understanding of the relationship between two major topics in educational research: higher education choices and students' conceptions of employability. It explores, first, the balance between vocational calling, instrumental considerations and chance in subject choice and, second, the relation between…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Decision Making, Employment Potential
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Katherine Gajardo; Félix Lobo de Diego; Guillermo Alejandro Campos Cancino; Enrique-Javier Díez-Gutiérrez – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The study aims to provide relevant information on the educational processes experienced by university students in Spain during the period of compulsory confinement. To this end, the key factors of the emergency educational model implemented by the country's universities have been analysed. Design/methodology/approach: The study…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Ana de Castro-Calvo; Núria Carrete-Marín; Núria Simó-Gil – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2024
Understanding what is meant by pedagogical renewal today, based on the transformative processes that are being carried out, poses a challenge, one that is even greater if the aim is to elucidate the pedagogical benchmarks and hallmarks of secondary schools. This article, which takes the form of a multiple case study, aims to bring to the fore…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Benchmarking
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Waddington, Julie – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2022
A study is presented with a twofold objective related to child voice: to explore children's views on the use of video recordings in an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) class, and to promote the inclusion of child voice in decision-making processes in the foreign language classroom. The study was carried out in a primary school setting in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Video Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Karla Lopez-Murillo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Mexico is the main Latin American country sending students abroad for international education. In 2020, 34,781 Mexican students were enrolled in higher education institutions (HEIs) outside their country of origin. From those, 37% studied in a European country. The National Science and Technology Council (CONACYT) has funded international student…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Doctoral Students, Decision Making, Student Attitudes
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Gutierrez de Blume, Antonio P.; Montoya Londoño, Diana Marcela; Daset, Lilián; Cuadro, Ariel; Molina Delgado, Mauricio; Morán Núñez, Olivia; García de la Cadena, Claudia; Beltrán Navarro, María Beatríz; Arias Trejo, Natalia; Ramirez Balmaceda, Ana; Jiménez Rodríguez, Virginia; Puente Ferreras, Aníbal; Urquijo, Sebastián; Arias, Walter Lizandro; Rivera, Laura Inés; Schulmeyer, Marion; Rivera-Sanchez, Jesus – Metacognition and Learning, 2023
A deeper understanding of what factors influence metacognition has never become more pressing than in today's digital era, in which information flows constantly and quickly. To this end, the present study explored the role of culture in mediating how individuals experience metacognitive phenomena. For this purpose, the International Group on…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Spanish Speaking, Cross Cultural Studies, Measures (Individuals)
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Sergio Calavia; B. Bravo-Torija; B. Mazas – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This paper presents an analysis of the socio-scientific dimensions which 46 11th graders, enrolled in the subject scientific culture, consider to justify their COVID-19 vaccination decision and how they managed to combine and integrate these dimensions before and after working on a sequence of activities aimed at learning about argumentation in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, High School Students
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Albert Sánchez-Gelabert; Helena Troiano – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Abundant research has shown the influence of social background on university dropout. However, there is little research that considers the different progression options for analysing the structure of the decisions that students make. This article explores the possible alternative decisions of: (1) continuing the initial degree course chosen; (2)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Flexible Progression, Universities
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Fergus, Suzanne; Heelan, Amy; Ibrahim, Sara; Oyman, Hasan; Diaz-de-Mera, Yolanda; Notario, Alberto – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
The approach that students take in their studies at university is critical not only for their academic success but is equally important in life-long learning for their career and professional development. Cognitive science has demonstrated that retesting oneself on material when learning enhances and promotes greater retention of knowledge…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Cross Cultural Studies
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Teresa Cadierno; Mikkel B. Hansen; Carmen Muñoz – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2024
Based on the assumption that individual learner factors are context-dependent, this exploratory study examined whether differences in two learning environments (Denmark and Spain) have a differential influence on a set of learner factors that have together been previously identified as important in second language (L2) research, specifically,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Cross Cultural Studies, Student Characteristics
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Andoni Arguiñano; Inaki Karrera; Maitane Basasoro; Garazi Ormazabal--Arizkorreta – Cogent Education, 2024
This article analyses the different guidelines that have allowed a school to transform its educational project and pedagogical organization in order to adapt to the needs and requirements of a society in constant evolution. To this end, document analysis, participant observation and four focus groups have been carried out with various social…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational History, Instructional Innovation, Foreign Countries
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Navarro, María Burgos; Céspedes, María José Castillo – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2022
Teachers must often analyze and select the educational resources they consider relevant for their students, being textbooks one of the curricular materials of preferential use. A textbook lesson shows the instructional process planned by the author to promote the learning of a given content by potential students, so it is essential that the…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction, Lesson Plans
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2020
Each month, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveys a random sample of individuals who three months prior registered on mba.com--the GMAC™ website for prospective graduate business students. Their survey responses provide an inside look into the decision-making process of people currently considering applying to a graduate…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Degrees, Business Administration Education, Student Recruitment
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