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Hamilton, Hannah R.; Mallett, Robyn K. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2023
One-minute papers allow students to process what they learned during class and improve student performance. However, this activity can become monotonous and takes significantly longer than the name implies. The research described here tests the effectiveness of a briefer, more flexible version of this technique to increase the perceived relevance…
Descriptors: Reflection, Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Academic Achievement
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Väyrynen, Karin; Lutovac, Sonja; Kaasila, Raimo – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2023
Previous research has emphasized both the importance of giving and receiving peer feedback for the purpose of active learning, as well as of university students' engagement in reflection to improve learning outcomes. However, requiring students to explicitly reflect on peer reviewing is an understudied learning activity in higher education that…
Descriptors: Reflection, Peer Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement
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Rebecca A. Bull Schaefer; Lily K. Copeland – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This paper responds to calls from teacher-student feedback research looking for options on how to improve student performance. In Study 1, we first observe the relationship between student conscientiousness, midterm-performance, feedback-seeking behaviors, and final semester grades. Second, in Study 2, we test whether using an active learning…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Performance, Academic Achievement, Grades (Scholastic)
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Michael C. Ralph; Blair Schneider; David R. Benson; Douglas Ward – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Institutions of higher education are seeking to support more active learning among faculty, and that support includes the creation of active learning spaces to support more student-centered course activities. However, incremental development of these learning spaces leads to a sorting of students between active and passive learning environments.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Organic Chemistry, College Science, Science Instruction
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Alicia A Dahl; Jessamyn Bowling; Lisa M Krinner; Candace S Brown; George Shaw Jr.; Janaka B Lewis; Trudy Moore-Harrison; Sandra M Clinton; Scott R Gartlan – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2024
The Paper Chase model is a synchronous collaborative approach to manuscript development. Through a structured and team-based design, authors participate in a "marathon" of writing, editing, revising, and submitting their publications within a specified period. This active-learning approach is considered a high-impact practice by engaging…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Collaborative Writing, Synchronous Communication, Teamwork
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Wei Xu; Ye-Feng Lou – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Teachers' knowledge of the socially shared regulation of learning (SSRL) process of learners, which consists of the task analysis, planning, elaboration, and monitoring, can help teachers intervene when students face difficulties during the collaborative learning. Students' academic emotions have major effects on their learning motivation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Educational Technology, Cooperative Learning
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Micari, Marina; Calkins, Susanna – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2021
Instructors' actions in the classroom matter; what the instructor does and says can impact students' attitudes about the course and learning approaches, which can in turn impact the quality of their learning. This study examines the relationships among instructor openness to student questions, student help-seeking behavior, and student final grade…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Questioning Techniques, Teacher Student Relationship, Undergraduate Students
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Clinton, Virginia; Kelly, Alison E. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Student attitudes toward active learning techniques, such as group discussion, are often negative. The purpose of this study was to determine if an intervention informing students of the usefulness of group discussions affects their attitudes on group discussions. Students were randomly assigned to view a video and answer an essay question either…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Group Discussion, Intervention, Teaching Methods
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McQueen, Heather A.; McMillan, Craig – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Active learning exercises engage students during lectures, but often fail to take account of the individual learning position of each student. The 'quecture' is a partially flipped lecture that incorporates students posing their own questions (quecture questions), discussing them during lectures and revisiting them later. These interactive…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Active Learning, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Mahoney, John W.; Harris-Reeves, Brooke – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2019
Collaborative testing has been shown to enhance student performance compared to individual testing. It is suggested that collaborative testing promotes higher order thinking, but research has yet to explore this assumption directly. The aim of this study was to explore the benefits of collaborative testing on overall performance, as well as…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, College Science, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Roberts, David – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2019
An important contemporary challenge to the large-group lecture in higher education is that it encourages passive learning which is claimed to be out of sync with academic rhetoric and social needs. Attempts to change this practice have salvaged some aspects of the higher education experience for students, but they have not transformed the learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Visual Aids, Imagery, Higher Education
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Jones, Jennifer A. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2019
Self-regulated learning assumes learners are active agents who can establish and make progress toward learning goals. Classroom activities can facilitate the emergence of self-regulated learning. One strategy to encourage self-regulated learning is to ask students to develop questions for a quiz or examination. The process of developing questions…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Class Activities
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French, Kimberly A.; Kottke, Janet L. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Multilevel modeling is used to examine the impact of teamwork interest and group extraversion on group satisfaction. Participants included 206 undergraduates in 65 groups who were surveyed at the beginning and end of a requisite term-length group project for an upper-division university course. We hypothesized that teamwork interest and both…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Teamwork, Participant Satisfaction, Group Dynamics
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Van Gaal, Frank; De Ridder, Annemieke – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2013
In this article, the impact of assessment tasks on examination result (measured by examination grades) is investigated. Although many describe the advantages of electronic assessment tasks, few studies have been undertaken which compare a traditional approach using a classical examination with a new approach using assessment tasks. The main…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, Tests
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Stolk, Jonathan; Harari, Janie – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2014
It is well established that active learning helps students engage in high-level thinking strategies and develop improved cognitive skills. Motivation and self-regulated learning research, however, illustrates that cognitive engagement is an effortful process that is related to students' valuing of the learning tasks, adoption of internalized goal…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Active Learning, Learner Engagement, Thinking Skills
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