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Bengmark, S.; Thunberg, H.; Winberg, T. M. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
This study examines different factors' relative importance for students' performance in the transition to university mathematics. Students' characteristics (motivation, actions and beliefs) were measured when entering the university and at the end of the first year. Principal component analysis revealed four important constructs:…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Study Habits, Factor Analysis
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Mozelius, Peter – ICTE Journal, 2018
Game-based learning has been a rapidly expanding field in the 21th century, with research reports praising the motivational effects and learning outcomes of games. At the same time there have been doubts on the learning outcomes of even the most seriously designed learning games. The generation that today enrols for university programmes is in…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Outcomes of Education, Student Attitudes
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Weurlander, Maria; Soderberg, Magnus; Scheja, Max; Hult, Hakan; Wernerson, Annika – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
This study aims to provide a greater insight into how formative assessments are experienced and understood by students. Two different formative assessment methods, an individual, written assessment and an oral group assessment, were components of a pathology course within a medical curriculum. In a cohort of 70 students, written accounts were…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Student Attitudes
Eanet, Marilyn G.; Camperell, Kay – Forum for Reading, 1989
Introduces reading research from Great Britain, Sweden, and Australia. Discusses three conclusions from this literature particularly relevant to college reading specialists. (SR)
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Postsecondary Education