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Kampmeyer, Daniela; Matthes, Jan; Herzig, Stefan – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
Multiple-choice-questions are common in medical examinations, but guessing biases assessment results. Confidence-based-testing (CBT) integrates indicated confidence levels. It has been suggested that correctness of and confidence in an answer together indicate knowledge levels thus determining the quality of a resulting decision. We used a CBT…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Pharmacology, Comparative Analysis, Confidence Testing
Feild, Jacqueline – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
Providing students with continuous and personalized feedback on their performance is an important part of encouraging self regulated learning. As part of our higher education platform, we built a set of data visualizations to provide feedback to students on their assignment performance. These visualizations give students information about how they…
Descriptors: Student Improvement, Performance, Feedback (Response), Assignments
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Nickerson, Catherine; Rapanta, Chrysi; Goby, Valerie Priscilla – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2017
Our aim was to explore the influence of mobile learning on students' acquisition of conceptual knowledge of business communication, as well as on the development of their communication skills. We compared the performance of three groups of students according to the pedagogical approach that we used with them: a mobile learning group, a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Business Communication, Concept Teaching
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Mok, Annie O. – British Journal of Music Education, 2017
This study investigates how a class of university music students who engaged in a "lived" experience of informal learning adopted methods and strategies to complete a self-learning "aural copying" performance assignment in a musicianship class in Hong Kong. Data were collected from observations of the performances and the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Music Education, College Students, Learning Strategies
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Wora, Veronika Marta; Hadisaputro, Ranto; Rohman, Ngatou; Bugis, Husin; Pambudi, Suharno Nugroho Agung – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2017
This research aims to improve the learning activity and achievement of a 10th grade class made up of 30 students in a vocational high school located in the city of Surakarta, Indonesia, by applying the Numbered Heads Together (NHT) approach. The experiment was divided into two stages of four activities each: planning, implementation, observation,…
Descriptors: Student Improvement, Competency Based Education, Vocational High Schools, Learning Activities
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Anca, Monica-Iuliana; Bocos, Musata – Online Submission, 2017
The experimental research performed by us with the purpose of exploring the possibilities of development of strategic learning competences and improvement of school performance of 11th grade students, pedagogical profile, specialisation in primary school-kindergarten teacher, falls in the category of researches aiming to make efficient certain…
Descriptors: Independent Study, High School Students, Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement
Iyengar, Nithin; Lewis-LaMonica, Kate; Perigo, Mike – Bridgespan Group, 2017
This article is part of a Bridgespan Group research project that focuses on a new wave of district-led "innovation zones" that holds promise to overcome the challenges of turning around failing schools and deliver significant improvements in student outcomes. This new wave provides a subset of district schools with control over staffing,…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, School Districts, School Turnaround, School District Autonomy
Norman, Jon – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2017
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's Math Pathways seek to improve outcomes for community college students who take remedial math courses. The Pathways include two comprehensive instructional systems--Statway® and Quantaway® and are described in this report. They are designed to support students to achieve the necessary math…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Community Colleges, Remedial Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement
Whitlow, Jan H. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative study compares perceptions of Master of Business Administration (MBA) students and recent MBA graduates with those of employers of recent MBA graduates and MBA faculty regarding the skills, competencies, and experiences needed to be successful in their new graduate jobs. The researcher gathered stakeholder perspectives of the…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Graduates, Student Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
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Allen, Keith; Hoyle, Amelia; Zhu, Fengkan; Husley, Jalen – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This study on college student success examines factors students attribute toward improving their academic performance in college. Open coding, content analysis, and analytic induction methods were used to examine responses from 478 undergraduate students at an R-1 highly active, public research university in the southeastern region of the US. The…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Attribution Theory, Academic Achievement
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Wan, Han; Liu, Kangxu; Yu, Qiaoye; Gao, Xiaopeng – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2019
Most educational institutions adopted the hybrid teaching mode through learning management systems. The logging data/clickstream could describe learners' online behavior. Many researchers have used them to predict students' performance, which has led to a diverse set of findings, but how to use insights from captured data to enhance learning…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Learner Engagement, Identification, Study Habits
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Adams, Kari – Music Educators Journal, 2019
Growth mindset, or the belief that talents and abilities are malleable and can grow, is known to hold immense benefits in the world of education. What benefits could it hold for our students' musical growth as well? This article explores the many benefits of instilling a growth mindset into our ensembles by examining research in educational…
Descriptors: Student Development, Singing, Music Education, Educational Strategies
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Hung, Yu-ju – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
Grounded on the notion of observational learning in social cognitive learning theory, this study evaluated the effectiveness of repeated self-assessment on English-as-a-foreign-language learners' oral performance and the perceptions of the students and the instructor of this practice. Ninety-seven students from three classes in a Taiwanese college…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language)
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Zhan, Ying – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
Feedback has been increasingly conceptualised as a dialogical process where students interpret the provided information through interaction with comment providers and use it to enhance their learning. A major challenge for the development of sustainable feedback is closely related to how students think about it. This study explored how 25 Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Teacher Student Relationship
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Petrus, Rankhumise Mmushetji – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2018
Students' poor performances of Physical Sciences are a major problem in South Africa, particularly the district of Motheo. Even though the Department of Elementary Education in South Africa has invested a great deal of money for Physical Sciences in the new curriculum called the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) to train teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Performance Factors, Physical Sciences
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