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Grazia Mirabito; Paul Verhaeghen – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To examine whether a remote, online, group-based mindfulness intervention results in effects during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: 111 college students: 58 in the intervention group, 53 in a waitlist control group. Methods: Randomized control trial (RCT) using a 4-week Koru Mindfulness program, investigating pre-to-posttest…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Metacognition, Intervention, College Students
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Dye, Kathryn Morris; Stanton, Julie Dangremond – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Students with awareness and control of their own thinking can learn more and perform better than students who are not metacognitive. Metacognitive regulation is how you control your thinking in order to learn. It includes the skill of evaluation, which is the ability to appraise your approaches to learning and then modify future plans based on…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Biology, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Learning Strategies
Adams, Shawn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to explore factors that predict the persistence of international, non-immigrant students in higher education. A sample of international students from a four-year private university in Georgia served as the focused population for this study. Persistence research asserts that six factors predict persistence: academic…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Private Colleges, Predictor Variables