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Cheng-Wen He; Logan Fiorella; Paula P. Lemons – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
This study tested competing theories about the effectiveness of different instructional sequences for learners with different levels of prior knowledge. Across two classroom experiments, undergraduates learned about noncovalent interactions in biochemistry by either receiving explicit instruction before problem-solving (I-PS group) or engaging in…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Problem Solving, Prior Learning, Learning Processes
Joyce B. Main; Christina Pantoja; Susan M. Lord; Catherine Mobley; Catherine Brawner – Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Background: In the United States, there is increased demand to expand the engineering workforce. Many military veterans have received technical training that can be leveraged in engineering. Their pursuit of engineering degrees has great potential to expand and diversify the engineering workforce. Purpose: This study examines the pathways of US…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Veterans, Prior Learning, High School Graduates
Federick Ngo – Education Economics, 2024
As a result of systemic barriers, undocumented immigrants are more likely to enroll in community colleges and to enter these institutions with higher prior academic achievement than their peers. I explore the potential spillover benefits of this hyperselection on other students using data from a large community college system and two…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Community Colleges, Barriers, College Enrollment
Brittany N. Kester – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With over 1 million international students enrolling in US colleges and universities every year and the continued expansion of available information, including the spread of mis- and dis-information, it is essential that students be information literate and know how to effectively search for, critically evaluate, and produce information.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Asians, Student Experience
Daniela Kocanova; Anna Horváth – European Education and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2024
This report investigates whether higher education systems across Europe recognise and validate learning outcomes from non-formal and informal learning. Specifically, the report looks at whether non-formal and informal learning can enable alternative access to higher education; the extent to which non-formal and informal learning can contribute to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Prior Learning, Nonformal Education
Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2025
The Colorado Re-Engaged (CORE) initiative, created under House Bill 21-1330, allows a four-year institution of higher education (IHE) to award an associate degree to former students who meet eligibility requirements -- including having already earned at least 70 credit hours before stopping-out of a bachelor's program. Under HB21-1330, each…
Descriptors: College Programs, Program Implementation, Associate Degrees, Stopouts
Hilal Salim Marhoon Al-Mamari; Jeya Amantha Kumar – Journal of Learning for Development, 2025
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are online educational courses that provide learning opportunities without geographical, temporal, or enrollment limitations. However, the adoption of MOOCs in Omani higher education is still in its early stages. Therefore, this study aims to assess how attitudes, self-efficacy, experience with online teaching,…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Role, Prior Learning, Learning Processes
Robert Marley; Mark J. Mellon; K. Doreen MacAulay – Accounting Education, 2024
Recruiting talented individuals to the accounting profession has long been a concern of accounting educators, practitioners, and professional accounting associations in both developing and developed countries. In this exploratory study, we examine whether providing non-business college students with a basic knowledge of accounting principles and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Accounting, Stereotypes, Recruitment
Jeff Deickman; James Mattox; Phillip A. Morris – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
This study evaluates the implementation of policies and practices related to prior learning assessment (PLA) for military training and experience in Colorado community colleges. Through conducting interviews and a document analysis, this case study aimed to provide policy and practice recommendations for states, systems, and institutions to…
Descriptors: Military Service, Military Personnel, Community Colleges, Prior Learning
Jocelyn L. Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Some states have attempted to streamline the process of providing prior learning assessment (PLA), also referred to as credit for prior learning (CPL), for work and life experiences. In terms of enrollment management, colleges nationwide look to increase student enrollment and positively impact attrition. Credit for work experience could have a…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Experiential Learning, Success, Community College Students
Sharleen Flowers; Kal H. Holder; Gabrielle K. Rump; Stephanie M. Gardner – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Explaining biological phenomena requires understanding how different processes function and describing interactions between components at various levels of organization over time and space in biological systems. This is a desired competency yet is a complicated and often challenging task for undergraduate biology students. Therefore, we need a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cytology, Biology, Scientific Concepts
Simon Reinwald; Silvia Annen – SAGE Open, 2023
The intersectionality framework allows for the combination of formerly additive individual characteristics into intersectional profiles of employees in order to prioritize and direct further education investments. A k-medoid technique creates these profiles from the large-scale sample of the German National Educational Panel Study. A specific…
Descriptors: Employees, Sex, Educational Attainment, Prior Learning
Brown, Bobby A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Academic advisors are crucial to the success of students who attend higher education institutions (e.g., Himes, 2014; Paul & Fitzpatrick, 2015; Smith, 2005). They guide students to complete their degrees in a timely progression and serve as a contact for students to help increase a sense of belonging on college campuses. Higher education…
Descriptors: Faculty Advisers, Higher Education, Bias, Interaction
Kirsten A. Davis; David B. Knight – Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Background: As more universities seek to offer international experiences for engineering students, it is important to design such programs to effectively support student learning abroad. Previous research on study abroad has focused on a limited number of outcomes and therefore failed to consider the diversity of experiences students may have in…
Descriptors: College Students, Engineering Education, Student Experience, Study Abroad
Dianne G. Delima – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2025
To explore the ways in which the learning and understanding of diversity course subject matter happen, this manuscript interviews and observed the experiences of 10 first-generation college students of color and their teachers from two diversity courses. Findings show that participants drew from their classmates' prior knowledge and experiences to…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Minority Group Students, Diversity, Course Content