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Sokratis Tselegkaridis; Theodosios Sapounidis; Christos Tokatlidis; Dimitrios Papakostas – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
Contribution: This study focuses on microcontroller circuits and aims to: 1) investigate the impact of formal reasoning on students' post-knowledge using catastrophe theory; 2) compare the different combination sequences of tangible user interface (TUI) and graphical user interface (GUI); and 3) assess the usability of both interfaces and explore…
Descriptors: College Students, Electronics, Electronic Equipment, Engineering Education
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Cramer, Kenneth M.; Sands, Mandy – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2016
As in most disciplines, the typical introductory class presents topics to students in a linear fashion, beginning (to use psychology as an example) with the history of the field, research methods, brain and neurons, sensation and perception, and so on. This study examined the impact of topic sequence on student achievement. The same professor…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses, Psychology, College Students
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Hlavatý, Robert; Dömeová, Ludmila – International Education Studies, 2014
The paper is focused on students of Mathematical methods in economics at the Czech university of life sciences (CULS) in Prague. The idea is to create a model of students' progress throughout the whole course using the Markov chain approach. Each student has to go through various stages of the course requirements where his success depends on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Markov Processes, Mathematical Models, Progress Monitoring
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Mariano, Gina – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of segmentation on immediate and delayed recall and transfer in a multimedia learning environment. The independent variables of segmentation and non-segmentation, as well as immediate and delayed transfer assessments, were manipulated to assess the effects of segmentation on the participant's…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Educational Environment, Recall (Psychology)
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Cela-Ranilla, Jose Maria; Gisbert, Merce; de Oliveira, Janaina Minelli – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2011
Providing information about how 1st-year students learn may help colleges plan actions aimed at increasing students' persistence in higher education programs. This research aims to assess 1st-year students' academic performance, using a path analysis to establish inter-correlations among students' personality traits, learning patterns, high school…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Personality, Path Analysis
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Al-Twaijry, Abdulrahman Ali – Journal of Education for Business, 2010
The author's purpose was to identify potential factors possibly affecting student performance in three sequential management-accounting courses: Managerial Accounting (MA), Cost Accounting (CA), and Advanced Managerial Accounting (AMA) within the Saudi Arabian context. The sample, which was used to test the developed hypotheses, included 312…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accounting, Undergraduate Students, Performance Factors