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Yawen Shi; Mengke Wang; Zengzhao Chen; Ge Hou; Zhuo Wang; Qiuyu Zheng; Jianwen Sun – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Instructors' attention to students is vital for teaching. However, instructors' level of attention to students, which has the potential to influence students' learning across different lecture types, has yet to be fully explored. The aim of this study was to examine the impacts of the instructor's attention to students and lecture type on…
Descriptors: Attention, Teacher Student Relationship, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes
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Yi Zhang; Jiumin Yang; Chenyan Dai; Zhongling Pi – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
Previous studies have shown that encouraging students to use self-explanation strategies has proven effective in text-focused learning contexts. However, no study to date has focused on how students' strategy preference moderates the effect of self-explanation strategies on learning from video lectures. The current study investigated how students'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Lecture Method, Preferences
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Limniou, Maria – Education Sciences, 2021
The aim of this investigation was to explore student behaviour when students brought their own digital devices into a lecture theatre. A total of 361 undergraduate psychology students from the University of Liverpool who used at least one digital device during lecture time fully completed an online questionnaire (159 first-, 124 second- and 78…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Laptop Computers
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Shernoff, David J.; Sannella, Alexander J.; Wall, Lina Sanchez; Schorr, Roberta Y.; Bressler, Denise; Sinha, Suparna – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of students' seating location in a large, lecture-style university course on student engagement, attention, classroom learning experience, and course performance. Participants (N = 407) were students in two cohorts of an undergraduate financial accounting course at a large university in the…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Proximity, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement
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Kim, ChanMin; Park, Seung Won; Huynh, Niem; Schuermann, Ryan Thomas – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
We investigated how high-performers and low-performers differ with regard to motivation and engagement in a university-level, large-format general education geography course. One hundred and ten students participated in the study. A self-report measure was administered three times (at the beginning, middle and end of the semester). Performance…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement
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Shadiev, Rustam; Wu, Ting-Ting; Huang, Yueh-Min – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
In this study, we provide STR-texts to non-native English speaking students during English lectures to facilitate learning, attention, and meditation. We carry out an experiment to test the feasibility of our approach. Our results show that the participants in the experimental group both outperform those in the control group on the post-tests and…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Assistive Technology
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Kim, Yeongjun; Jeong, Soonmook; Ji, Yongwoon; Lee, Sangeun; Kwon, Key Ho; Jeon, Jae Wook – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2015
This paper proposes a method for seamless interaction between students and their professor using Twitter, one of the typical social network service (SNS) platforms, in large lectures. During the lecture, the professor poses surprise questions in the form of a quiz on an overhead screen at unexpected moments, and students submit their answers…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication
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Hu, Xiangen, Ed.; Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Hershkovitz, Arnon, Ed.; Paquette, Luc, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
The 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Optics Velley Kingdom Plaza Hotel, Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. This years conference features two invited talks by: Dr. Jie Tang, Associate Professor with the Department of Computer…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Graphs, Data Use
Schonwetter, Dieter J.; And Others – 1995
The present study investigated the interaction between college student entry characteristics and effective instruction. The experimental design involved 380 introductory psychology students and consisted of a Lecture Organization (low, high) by Test Anxiety (low, moderate, high) 2 x 3 design. The dependent variables included student attention,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention, Cognitive Processes, College Instruction
Schonwetter, Dieter J.; And Others – 1995
The present study drew on existing theories and research to further uncover the mysteries of the college teaching/learning paradigm, particularly the causal links between effective instruction and student learning of novel lecture material. The experimental design involved 380 introductory psychology students and consisted of a Lecture…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Attention, Class Organization