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Joseph Siegel; Yoko Kusumoto – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The importance of notetaking for English for academic purposes (EAP) students and teachers is growing due to a rapid increase in the number of universities offering English as a medium of instruction (EMI) courses around the world (e.g. [Teng, H. C. 2011. "Exploring Note-taking Strategies of EFL Listeners." "Procedia -- Social and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Nyroos, Mikaela; Schéle, Ingrid; Wiklund-Hörnqvist, Carola – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Given previous findings on test enhanced learning, the present study examined the implementation of this practice in terms of quizzing, during the progress of a course. After completing the university course, 88 Swedish teacher students were asked to answer an adapted Retrieval Practice and Test Anxiety Survey. The results showed that students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teacher Attitudes, Testing, Test Anxiety
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Mozelius, Peter – ICTE Journal, 2018
Game-based learning has been a rapidly expanding field in the 21th century, with research reports praising the motivational effects and learning outcomes of games. At the same time there have been doubts on the learning outcomes of even the most seriously designed learning games. The generation that today enrols for university programmes is in…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Outcomes of Education, Student Attitudes
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Malm, Joakim; Bryngfors, Leif; Mörner, Lise-Lotte – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Supplemental Instruction (SI) is a programme that is attached to difficult courses with the objective of increasing student performance and retention. However, an SI programme also has the potential to increase overall student performance and retention during the first critical year if applied to introductory courses. In this study the latter…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Engineering Education, Supplementary Education
Lindroth, Tomas; Lundin, Johan; Svensson, Lars – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
Laptops and other networked technologies are commonplace at university campuses. While a range of studies researches the negative effects of multitasking, screenpeeking and other laptop related side effects this article emphasize the situational impact of student-laptop interaction. Departing from Goffman's framework on unfocused interaction and…
Descriptors: Laptop Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Higher Education
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Balter, Olle; Cleveland-Innes, Martha; Pettersson, Kerstin; Scheja, Max; Svedin, Maria – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This study investigates the relationship between approaches to studying and course completion in two online preparatory university courses in mathematics and computer programming. The students participating in the two courses are alike in age, gender, and approaches to learning. Four hundred and ninety-three students participating in these courses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Online Courses, Computer Science Education