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Peers, Study Effort, and Academic Performance in College Education: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Roommates in a Flipped Classroom
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Pu, Shi; Yan, Yu; Zhang, Liang – Research in Higher Education, 2020
This study provides empirical evidence related to two critical assumptions in the student engagement literature in higher education--namely, the malleability of study effort and the causality of the relationship between study effort and student outcomes. We merged student-level administrative data on dormitory assignments, study effort in a hybrid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Dormitories, Peer Influence
"Doing Language Testing": Learner-Initiated Side Sequences in a Technology-Mediated Language Learning Environment
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Simin Ren; Paul Seedhouse – Classroom Discourse, 2024
We present "doing language testing" sequences; L2 learners decide for themselves to test themselves or each other explicitly on new linguistic items, outside the official task cycle with no professional present, investing extra time and energy. We examine how and why pairs of learners do this, and its impact on their learning. They use…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests, Computer Software
Lockdown in Chinese University Dormitories: Significant Increase in Negative Feelings and Time Perception Distortion
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Wang, Juanjuan; Wang, Chen; Gu, Xiaoming; Sun, Yi – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global crisis resulting in lockdowns worldwide. Studies found that these could amplify negative affects predictive of disturbances in time perception. However, all existing studies on this topic concentrated on the general population during a lockdown at home. There was no research on university students living…
Descriptors: Dormitories, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Peer Socialization into Gendered L2 Mandarin Practices in a Study Abroad Context: Talk in the Dorm
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Diao, Wenhao – Applied Linguistics, 2016
This article reports on the peer socialization of gendered Mandarin practices between three American students and their Chinese roommates in a college dorm in China. Gender is often perceived to be a salient identity category among adult L2 learners overseas. Drawing on the language socialization framework (Ochs and Schieffelin 1984), this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Socialization, Mandarin Chinese
Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (10th, Wuhan, China, June 25-28, 2017)
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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
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Volume IX.
Smart, John C., Ed. – 1993
Ten papers on theory and research in higher education have the following titles and authors: "An Analysis of the Paradigmatic Evolution of U.S. Higher Education and Implications for the Year 2000" (Hasan Simsek and Richard B. Heydinger); "A Motivational Analysis of Academic Life in College" (Martin V. Covington); "The…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Instruction, College Students, Critical Theory