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The Potential of Supplemental Instruction in Engineering Education--Helping New Students to Adjust to and Succeed in University Studies
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Malm, Joakim; Bryngfors, Leif; Mörner, Lise-Lotte – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Supplemental Instruction (SI) is a programme that is attached to difficult courses with the objective of increasing student performance and retention. However, an SI programme also has the potential to increase overall student performance and retention during the first critical year if applied to introductory courses. In this study the latter…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Engineering Education, Supplementary Education
Learning Strategies and Their Relationships to Academic Performance of High School Students in Hong Kong
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Yip, Michael C. W. – Educational Psychology, 2013
The present study examines the dynamic relationship between academic performance of high school students and their respective learning and study strategies. Two hundred thirty-six high school students were recruited to participate in this study by completing a Chinese version of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory--LASSI, to probe into the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Study Habits
Differences between High and Low Academic Achieving University Students in Learning and Study Strategies: A Further Investigation
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Yip, Michael C. W. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2009
Following up on the general framework of the research study of Yip (2007), this article sets out a similar research question, investigating the differences between high and low academic achieving Hong Kong university students based on their different learning and study strategies. In this study, we recruited 100 university students who pursued…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies
The Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) as a Predictor of First-Year College Academic Success.
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Prus, Joseph; And Others – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience, 1995
A study with 317 college freshmen found that the utility of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory to predict academic achievement, beyond that which could already be predicted by student background and entry-level variables, was quite limited. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Learning Strategies