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Räisänen, Milla; Postareff, Liisa; Mattsson, Markus; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This study examines the profiles of self-regulation of learning, peer learning and peer support among students. The study investigates whether the profiles differ in terms of reported study-related exhaustion. Students completed a questionnaire regarding their use of self-regulation of learning and peer learning and perceived peer support and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Self Control, Peer Teaching, Peer Relationship
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Bhebhe, Sithulisiwe; Maphosa, Cosmas – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2020
The way distance learners learn influences the manner in which they succeed in the different programmes of study. This study sought to gather views of selected open and distance learners on how they engaged in learning. The study was located in the interpretivist research paradigm and followed a qualitative research approach of which a case study…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Distance Education, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Paulo F. Carvalho; Faria Sana; Veronica X. Yan – npj Science of Learning, 2020
In this study, we examined students' natural studying behaviors in massive, open, online course (MOOC) on introductory psychology. We found that, overall, distributing study across multiple sessions--increasing spacing--was related to increased performance on end-of-unit quizzes, even when comparing the same student across different time-points in…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, MOOCs, Psychology, Study Habits
Ramon W. Key Jr. – Online Submission, 2024
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) provide access to education for many African Americans across the United States. These institutions offer a unique perspective on higher education in multiple disciplines, none more famous than music performance. The marching band, in particular,…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, African American Students, Time Management, Student Responsibility
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Üztemur, Servet; Dinç, Erkan – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Temporary school lockdowns and physical distancing practices due to the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the risk of problematic social media use (PSU) in students who need to socialize. The effect of PSU on students' academic commitment and the mechanisms that moderate this effect spark interest in researchers. For this reason, the present study…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Self Control, Gender Differences, Social Media
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Sánchez-Martí, Angelina; Ciraso-Calí, Anna; Fernández-Sequi, Héctor; Pineda-Herrero, Pilar – Vocations and Learning, 2023
Considering that teleworking and online training are on the rise following the pandemic, studying how school-life balance affects the development of VET competences in online learning during COVID-19 can provide relevant information to enhance educational equity in the future. A longitudinal study was conducted employing an on-line questionnaire…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Vocational Education, Online Courses
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Karen R. Diller; Sam B. Wallin – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This study examines student use of and reaction to study spaces in academic libraries through the lenses of place attachment, including appropriation, affordance, and attention restoration theories. Experimenting with new methods of research (four of six methods were new), researchers identified the walking interview as the best for examining…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Study Facilities, Study Habits, Attachment Behavior
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Marcella D. Stark; Carla Ayala; Brandy P. Quinn; Linzey Guerra-Stella; Julian Gomez; Laurel Cunningham – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2023
College students with learning disabilities face a number of challenges in postsecondary education and a lower graduation rate when compared with their peers who do not have a learning disability (Fernandez & Santi, 2016; Kreider, 2020). In response to this discrepancy, we designed a peer mentoring program utilizing mentors who are enrolled in…
Descriptors: College Students, Students with Disabilities, Mentors, Learning Disabilities
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Yan, Veronica X.; Sana, Faria – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
When learning new information, should students focus on studying 1 concept at a time or should they alternate studying between different concepts? Recent research shows that students should mix up or interleave the study of different concepts, particularly when the concepts are related or hard to discriminate (Carvalho & Goldstone, 2015). But…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Beliefs, Evidence, Metacognition
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Rodriguez, Fernando; Kataoka, Sabrina; Janet Rivas, Mariela; Kadandale, Pavan; Nili, Amanda; Warschauer, Mark – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2021
Studies have demonstrated that utilizing spacing (spreading out study sessions at regular intervals) and self-testing strategies are optimal for learning. While some applied work has examined the relationship between these strategies on general academic achievement, there is still a need to explore how both spacing and self-testing are related to…
Descriptors: Intervals, Independent Study, Learning Strategies, Study Habits
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Fulano, Celso; Magalhães, Paula; Núñez, José C.; Marcuzzo, Simone; Rosário, Pedro – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2021
Academic procrastination can be described as the delayed completion of academic tasks. This behavior is pervasive among students from different grade levels and cultures. A structural equation model was run to analyze the relationships between prior knowledge and procrastination in mathematics mediated by self-regulated learning and self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prior Learning, Time Management, Mathematics Education
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Park, Julie J.; Kim, Young K.; Lue, Kristyn; Zheng, Jia; Parikh, Roshan; Salazar, Cinthya; Liwanag, Arman – Research in Higher Education, 2021
While numerous studies have highlighted the consequences of exclusion in STEM, fewer studies have empirically tested the benefits of inclusion in peer relationships. We focus on the impact of having cross-racial or cross-gender study partners among one's close friends in a national sample of 408 STEM majors. Using structural equation modeling, we…
Descriptors: Friendship, STEM Education, Peer Relationship, Inclusion
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Ucar, Hasan; Bozkurt, Aras; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2021
Research indicates that academic procrastination is a common attitude among learners, and that it generally has a negative correlation with academic performance. The present quantitative causal-comparative study aims to determine the cause of differences, in terms of procrastination tendency, in academic performance among online learners. The…
Descriptors: Time Management, Study Habits, Correlation, Academic Achievement
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Quijano-López, Rocío; Pérez-Ferra, Miguel – Education Sciences, 2021
Many present-day students orient towards outcomes instead of learning. This is leading to failure that affects students, families, the educational system itself, and occupational and financial systems in Spain. Indeed, current data points to an 18.2% university drop-out rate during the first year. The present study seeks to identify teachers'…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education
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Jen Stacy – Educational Linguistics, 2021
Adult refugees often turn to informal learning opportunities, such as family literacy programs, to learn English. These programs often promote dominant, neoliberal ideologies and invoke a deficit lens that intends to fix newcomers. This chapter looks at the learning experiences of Kurdish refugees who participated in a family literacy program in…
Descriptors: Adults, Refugees, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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