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Ahlam Ali Salim Halali; Lilliati Ismail; Arshad Abd Samad; Abu Bakar Razali; Nooreen Noordin – Journal of International Students, 2023
Intellectual engagement is essential for international students' academic success. However, academic speaking challenges associated with communicative language anxiety and inadequate prior learning experience could impede students' academic communication abilities in foreign universities. Thus, students adopt academic speaking strategies to tackle…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety, Higher Education, Academic Achievement
Vrieling, Emmy; Stijnen, Sjef; Bastiaens, Theo – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
Many recent studies have stressed the importance of teacher candidates' (TCs) self-regulated learning (SRL) skills for successful learning. Because of the promising consequences of SRL for academic performance, teacher educators (TEs) are encouraged to increase TCs' SRL opportunities in educational programs. Because of the difficulty and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Preservice Teachers, Academic Achievement, Correlation
Caruth, Gail – Online Submission, 2014
Students in higher education are being taught pedagogically. Moreover, pedagogy has long persisted as the basis for the entire educational system. Education is, however, discovering that adults learn differently than children learn even though they have been taught as children were taught. Students tend to behave dependently when they are in a…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Higher Education, Andragogy, Instruction
Perkins, David N.; Salomon, Gavriel – Educational Psychologist, 2012
We synthesize ideas from the foregoing articles in this special issue and from the broader literature on transfer to explore several themes. In many ordinary life circumstances, transfer proceeds easily, but formal learning often shows much less transfer than educators would like, making failure to transfer a focus of investigation. Transfer, like…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Epistemology, Transfer of Training, Cognitive Processes
Koontz, T. M.; Plank, K. M. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2011
Many instructors strive to encourage student reading outside of class and active learning in class. One pedagogical tool, structured reading questions, can help do both. Using examples from question sets across six courses, the authors illustrate how reading questions can help students achieve the six active-learning principles described by…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Active Learning, Scholarship, Reading
Chowdhury, Faieza – International Education Studies, 2016
In recent years, education quality and quality assessment have received a great deal of attention at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Bangladesh. Most of the HEIs in Bangladesh face severe resource constraints and find it difficult to improve education quality by improving inputs, such as better infrastructure and modernized classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Higher Education, Educational Quality
Marklin Reynolds, Jeanie; Hancock, Dawson R. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2010
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a teaching/learning strategy through which students learn course content by solving real-world problems associated with the course material. Although the benefits of PBL have been amply demonstrated in the medical field and other selected subject areas, few studies have examined PBL's potential contributions in…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Undergraduate Students, World Problems, Learning Strategies
Ronning, Wenche M. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
A Norwegian translation of the Approaches to Studying Inventory (ASI-32) was administered to 1477 adult students attending flexible study programs in higher education in Norway (2004-05). The intention was to investigate their approaches to studying, taking into account their educational backgrounds and their present, challenging study conditions.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Self Efficacy, Adult Students, Foreign Countries
Tait, Kathleen – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2009
The central place of the learning environment and the personal characteristics of the learner in influencing whether students adopt deep or surface approaches to learning is well evidenced in the literature (for example, Marton & Saljo, 1976; Biggs, 1987; Entwhistle, 2001; Ramsden, 2003). For this reason, tertiary educators are constantly…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning

Menke, Deborah J.; Pressley, Michael – Journal of Reading, 1994
Describes some recent studies which establish that meaningful learning can be promoted by a certain type of questioning activity, called elaborative interrogation, that leads students to activate prior knowledge and tie it to the new information. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning
Vermunt, Jan D. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2005
This study was aimed at clarifying relations between the way students learn and personal, contextual and performance variables. Students from seven different academic disciplines completed the Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS). Besides, data about their age, gender, academic discipline, prior education and exam performance were gathered.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Context Effect, Learning Strategies, Cognitive Style

Westhoff, Gerard J. – ADFL Bulletin, 1991
Provides practical examples of assignments that increase the effectiveness of foreign language reading instruction. It is suggested that, by restructuring reading instruction, the role of the teacher will also be restructured. (12 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning

Nist, Sherrie L.; Simpson, Michele – Reading Online, 2002
Notes that many students enter postsecondary institutions unprepared to meet the studying demands placed on them. Examines models and taxonomies that have guided researchers as they have investigated studying. Reviews research factors related to studying at the college level: course characteristics, learner characteristics, and learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Higher Education, Learning Strategies

Neuman, W. Lawrence – Teaching Sociology, 1989
Replicates and expands upon an earlier study conducted by Robert Szafran in which a pretest was used to explore the effects of prior knowledge upon grades. Confirms that pretest scores and grade point average predict posttest scores. Presents a number of implications for teaching. (KO)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Learning Strategies
Athanasou, James A.; Langan, Dianne – 1999
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the roles of interest, knowledge, and learning strategies on recall within a specific subject domain at an early stage of learning. Students (n=17) at two levels in a postgraduate music therapy course were assessed for their levels of prior knowledge, interest, and the number of strategies they used to…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Knowledge Level