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Auvinen, Tapio; Hakulinen, Lasse; Malmi, Lauri – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2015
In online learning environments where automatic assessment is used, students often resort to harmful study practices such as procrastination and trial-and-error. In this paper, we study two teaching interventions that were designed to address these issues in a university-level computer science course. In the first intervention, we used achievement…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Computer Assisted Testing
Egenti, Henrietta N. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated approaches to studying, intellectual developments, and metacognitive skills of general chemistry students enrolled for the spring 2011 semester at a single campus of a multi-campus community college. The three instruments used were the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST), the Learning Environment…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Questionnaires, Study Habits
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Witecki, Gwendolyn; Nonnecke, Blair – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2015
Universities have experienced increases in technology ownership and usage amongst students entering undergraduate programs. Almost all students report owning a mobile phone and many students view laptops and tablets as educational tools, though they also report using them for nonacademic activities during lectures. We explored the relationship…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Handheld Devices, Laptop Computers, Learner Engagement
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Timmermans, Anneke C.; de Boer, Hester; van der Werf, Margaretha P. C. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2016
Little is known about factors other than students' abilities and background variables that shape teachers' achievement expectations. This study was aimed at investigating the role of teachers' perceptions of students attributes (working habits, popularity, self-confidence, student--teacher relationships, and classroom behavior) in shaping…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Expectations of Students, Foreign Countries, Primary Education
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Teixeira, Cláudia; Gomes, Delfina; Borges, Janete – Accounting Education, 2013
The focus of this paper is an investigation into the approaches to studying of Portuguese students of introductory accounting using the short version of the ASSIST instrument. In doing so, it also examined the impact upon the strategy adopted of the discipline area of students and gender. The results validate the use of the inventory with students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Accounting, Introductory Courses
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Çakiroglu, Ünal – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This study examined the relationships among learning styles, study habits, and learning performances in an online programming language course. Sixty-two sophomore students who enrolled in an online introductory programming course participated in the study. Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI) was used to measure the students' learning styles.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Study Habits, Distance Education, Academic Achievement
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Clariana, Merce; Gotzens, Concepcion; Badia, M. del Mar; Cladellas, Ramon – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2012
Introduction: This article has two purposes. First, to show the correlation between two unfortunately very common academic habits: procrastination and cheating. Second, to analyse the sequential trend of these two tendencies, from the final year of compulsory secondary education (in Spain 4th year of ESO; age 16) to the final year of university…
Descriptors: Cheating, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Private Schools
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Gustafsson, Jan-Eric – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2013
In educational effectiveness research, it frequently has proven difficult to make credible inferences about cause and effect relations. The article first identifies the main categories of threats to valid causal inference from observational data, and discusses designs and analytic approaches which protect against them. With the use of data from 22…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Homework, Mathematics Achievement, Regression (Statistics)
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Rupani, Pooja; Haughey, Nuala; Cooper, Mick – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2012
This article explores how school-based counselling might impact young people's capacity to study and learn. Previous research has indicated that counselling in schools has an indirect positive impact on academic achievement. A mixed methods approach, using a semi-structured qualitative interview and a brief rating scale, was employed with 21 young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Counseling, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Cheng, Liying; Sun, Youyi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2015
This study investigated Chinese secondary school English language teachers' grading decision making, focusing on the factors they considered and types of assessment they used for grading. A questionnaire was issued to 350 secondary school English language teachers in China. Descriptive analyses of the questionnaire data showed that these teachers…
Descriptors: Grading, Decision Making, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Lowinger, Robert Jay; He, Zhaomin; Lin, Miranda; Chang, Mei – College Student Journal, 2014
This study examined the role of academic self-efficacy, acculturation difficulties, and language abilities on procrastination behavior using a convenience sample of 264 Chinese international students studying at three public universities in the United States. While there were no significant mean gender differences on any of the measures, results…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Acculturation, Foreign Students
Powell, Erica Dion – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study presents a survey developed to measure the skills of entering college freshmen in the areas of responsibility, motivation, study habits, literacy, and stress management, and explores the predictive power of this survey as a measure of academic performance during the first semester of college. The survey was completed by 334 incoming…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Correlation
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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
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Rosário, Pedro; Núñez, José Carlos; Vallejo, Guilermo; Paiva, Olímpia; Valle, António; Fuentes, Sonia; Pinto, Ricardo – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2014
In the framework of teacher's approaches to teaching, this study investigates the relationship between student-related variables (i.e., study time, class absence, domain knowledge, and homework completion), students' approaches to learning, and teachers' approaches to teaching using structural equation modeling (SEM) with two…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Teaching Methods, Structural Equation Models, Biology
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Asikainen, Henna; Parpala, Anna; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari; Vanthournout, Gert; Coertjens, Liesje – Higher Education Studies, 2014
The aim of the present study is to explore changes both in approaches to learning as well as in students' experiences of the teaching-learning environment and how these changes are related to each other during their Bachelor studies by using a longitudinal data set. The aim is further to explore how students' approaches to learning and their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study, Longitudinal Studies, Learning Processes
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