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Kerr, Don; Murray, Peter A.; Burgess, Kevin – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2012
The information systems' literature outlines how training is a critical factor to successful Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations. Yet, types of training are not discussed in the literature and there is little indication if existing training is effective and whether relevant contextual factors have been considered. Without…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Information Systems, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies
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Ellis, Robert A. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
Evaluating the quality of inquiry using technology in blended contexts at university is a complex phenomenon as there are many variables which could account for qualitative variation in the experience. This study looks at reasons for qualitative variation in the university student experience of inquiry using technologies. It considers approaches…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Blended Learning, College Students, Educational Quality
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Owens, Alison – Australian Universities' Review, 2011
In 2007, as part of its response to the continuing diversification of students, Central Queensland University introduced a for-credit undergraduate course, "The Principles of University Learning", focusing on "learning to learn" in the Australian university context. The aim was to support the transition of learners with diverse…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grade Point Average, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning
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Abhayawansa, Subhash; Tempone, Irene; Pillay, Soma – Accounting Education, 2012
This study examines the impact of prior learning experience on students' approaches to learning (SAL). It compares SAL of accounting students admitted to university in Australia on the basis of Institutes of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) qualifications (TAFE-to-university) and through direct entry mode (Year 12-to-university). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Tan, Kym; Dawson, Vaille; Venville, Grady – Issues in Educational Research, 2008
This research investigates the use of cognitive organisers as a self-regulated learning strategy by gifted and talented science students in a Year 9 class at a metropolitan high school in Perth, Western Australia. The case study research design incorporates three primary methods of data collection including participant observation in classrooms,…
Descriptors: Research Design, Participant Observation, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Tytler, Russell – International Journal of Science Education, 1998
Finds that children are naturally generative in their construction of explanations but that they use conceptions in quite complex and fluid ways. Argues that naive conceptions maintain a valuable function. Contains 43 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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Bell, Joyce – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
The importance of reading for academic study cannot be overemphasized. At the postgraduate level, students are faced with complex text interpretation processes. Yet, while concerns have been expressed regarding the English as a second language literacy (Fitzgerald, 1995), few international students have been asked for their views on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Metacognition
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Hegarty-Hazel, Elizabeth – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Studies of the relationship between students' propositional knowledge (as measured by concept mapping tasks) and their study strategies (as measured by self-report questionnaires) for electricity in first-year university courses are described. The effect of propositional knowledge and prior knowledge on both conceptual knowledge and study…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Context Effect, Electricity, Foreign Countries
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Morgan, Michelle; Moni, Karen; Jobling, Anne – Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2004
The purpose of reading is for the reader to construct meaning from the text. For many young adults with Down syndrome, knowing what the text is all about is difficult, and so for them the activity of reading becomes simply the practice of word calling. It is suggested in the literature that for those individuals with Down syndrome, learning can…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Action Research, Learning Strategies, Down Syndrome
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Tolhurst, Denise; Debus, Raymond L. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2002
Describes a study of Australian secondary school students that identified the conditions and individual characteristics that would best support learners' acceptance of control within hypermedia, based on evidence from the learner control literature. Investigated effects of prior domain knowledge, learning activity structure, ability, and attitudes…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Foreign Countries
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McKenzie, Kirsten; Gow, Kathryn – Learning & Individual Differences, 2004
One of the most noticeable changes to the university student profile over the last decade is the increasing number of mature-age students. This study examined the relationship between previous academic performance, psychological characteristics of the student, learning strategies, and the first year academic performance of school leavers and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Structural Equation Models, College Freshmen, Learning Strategies
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Hegarty-Hazel, Elizabeth; Prosser, Michael – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Reports on the relationship between students' propositional knowledge, measured by concept mapping tasks, and their study strategies, measured by self-report questionnaires, as it relates to the concept of photosynthesis as presented in a first-year biology course. Results indicate that involved, purposeful study strategies, prompted by relevant…
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Concept Mapping, Context Effect
James, Pauline – 1994
This paper interprets a tale of resistance and its dissolution in an Educational Psychology class of male tradespeople employed as Technology Studies teachers in Secondary Colleges. Changes in identity required by the transition from manual to mental labor are so difficult that negativism and an aggressive pupil control ideology permeate the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Career Change, Cognitive Restructuring, Craft Workers