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Ferla, Johan; Valcke, Martin; Schuyten, Gilberte – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
This study aims to identify student models of learning (sets of "intra-student" cognitions about learning) and to investigate their effect on study strategies. A two-step cluster analysis identified four student models of learning, representing students' self-efficacy beliefs, learning conceptions, attributions for academic performance…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Multivariate Analysis, Study Skills, Learning Strategies
Akyol, Gulsum; Sungur, Semra; Tekkaya, Ceren – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2010
This study examined the differences in the level of 7th-grade Turkish students' cognitive and metacognitive strategy use (rehearsal, elaboration, organization, critical thinking, and metacognitive self-regulation) in science and investigated the contribution of cognitive and metacognitive strategy use to students' science achievement. The present…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning, Cognitive Processes
Foss, Julie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Reading in another language (L2) is a complex, multidimensional process dependent upon both reader-based and text-based factors. The purpose of this study was to investigate the roles of reader-based individual difference variables and of the text-based variable of genre in reading comprehension in French. The sample included 153 adult learners…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Study Habits, Structural Equation Models, French
Cao, Li; Nietfeld, John L. – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2007
This study examined college students' awareness of difficulties in learning class content and selection of study strategies to address the perceived challenges. Data consisted of responses by 94 students to two survey questions on 11 weekly monitoring worksheets. Data analyses, using the constant comparative method and Chi-Square tests, revealed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Metacognition, Study Habits, Behavior Change
Son, Lisa K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
This article investigated individual control of spacing strategies during study. Three predictions were outlined: The spacing hypothesis suggests that people choose to space their study to improve long-term learning via the spacing effect. The massing hypothesis suggests that people choose to mass their study because of illusions of confidence…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Study Habits
Papinczak, Tracey; Young, Louise; Groves, Michele; Haynes, Michele – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
Aim: To determine the influence of metacognitive activities within the PBL tutorial environment on the development of deep learning approach, reduction in surface approach, and enhancement of individual learning self-efficacy. Method: Participants were first-year medical students (N = 213). A pre-test, post-test design was implemented with…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Study Habits, Intervention, Student Attitudes
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2019
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2019, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Mullen, Patricia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Objective: To explore and compare the use of metacognitive, cognitive, and environmental resource management self regulatory learning (SRL) strategies used by a national sample of students enrolled in traditional and accelerated baccalaureate nursing programs. Background: Learner focused reforms in nursing education require students to assume more…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Acceleration (Education)
Xu, Jianzhong – School Community Journal, 2009
The aim of this study was to examine whether student achievement and school location may influence a range of homework management strategies. The participants were 633 rural and urban students in Grade 8. These homework management strategies include: (a) setting an appropriate work environment, (b) managing time, (c) handling distraction, (d)…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Homework, Urban Schools, Rural Schools
Ross, Margaret E.; Green, Samuel B.; Salisbury-Glennon, Jill D.; Tollefson, Nona – Innovative Higher Education, 2006
We conducted the present study to investigate whether college students adjust their study strategies to meet the cognitive demands of testing, a metacognitive self-regulatory skill. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the two testing conditions. In one condition we told participants to study for a test that required deep-level cognitive…
Descriptors: College Students, Testing, Study Skills, Metacognition
Shomoossi, Nematullah; Kooshan, Mohsen; Ketabi, Saeed – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2008
The role of learner's strategies and skills in learning a foreign language has been investigated in the last three decades. However, the part it plays in ESP achievement tests is not seriously treated. Moreover, as students take the final exam, their chief complaint concerns the idea of test anxiety as a debilitating factor. Therefore, the present…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Study Habits, Learning Strategies, Achievement Tests
Erten, Ismail Hakki – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
This study seeks to explain prevalent gender differences in academic achievement of 84 third-year students enrolled in a pre-service ELT (English Language Teaching) teacher training department. The study collected both qualitative and quantitative data through semi-structured interviews from a sample of 38 students. A content analysis of the data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Content Analysis, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries
Study Orientations in Different Tutoring Environments: University Language Students' First Two Years
Honkimaki, Sanna; Tynjala, Paivi – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2007
This study investigates the study orientations of students in a two-year follow-up in two Finnish universities that had different tutoring systems. Both universities offered tutoring of first-year students by senior students, but one also offered tutoring by staff members. The study orientations of students were assessed on the basis of their…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Tutoring, Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2017, taking place in Budapest, Hungary, from 29 of April to 1 of May, 2017. Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Anxiety, Cognitive Restructuring, Outcomes of Treatment
Burke, Jim – Voices from the Middle, 2006
Burke's own teacher-research has resulted in solutions for real classroom situations. In this, his last contribution as a column editor for "VM," he offers two more practical ideas for helping students achieve, and sends his readers off with advice to look to their own classrooms for solutions to the ever-present challenges of teaching. (Contains…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teaching Models, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Study Habits