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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Approaches to learning"”.
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Student Approaches to Learning Chinese Vocabulary
… that native English speakers use as they learn to speak and write Chinese vocabulary words in the first year of an elementary Chinese class. The main research question was: what strategies do native English-speaking beginning learners of Chinese use to learn Chinese vocabulary words in their …
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High Schoolers' Approaches to Learning Melodies by Ear
Aural learning, sometimes called “learning by ear,” is a fundamental mechanism of music, connected to musical perception, acquisition, and understanding. Researchers have primarily studied aural learning strategies through self-reported data or qualitative observations. Because the interaction …
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Cityscape : an exploratory study of visual approaches to learning through urban-outdoor
… population lives in an urban environment. Visual approaches to learning in urban environments can offer interdisciplinary strategies for students to utilize the outdoor classroom to explore and increase their creative capacity. In this exploratory study, design thinking and design-based research …
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A phenomenological study of the meanings of approaches to learning in higher education.
This study critically examines the meaning of approaches to learning in a Higher Education setting. In particular it highlights 'how' students leam by examining the way in which they approach their studies.The initial investigations into Approaches to Learning were conducted [in Sweden] by Marton …
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Are Deep Approaches To Learning Possible In Vocational Degree Courses In Construction?: A Phenomenological Inquiry
Since its first formulation by Marton and Saljo (1976 a and b) the notion of deep approaches to studying has been influential within the higher education sector of the United Kingdom (Entwistle, 1997b; Webb, 1997db). Despite this the literature on approaches to studying, and the more recent …
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Student Satisfaction, Perceived Employability Skills, and Deep Approaches to Learning: A Structural Equation Modeling Analyses
This study explored the relationship of Deep Approaches to Learning (DAL) with overall students' satisfaction and perceived employability skills in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for the undergraduate seniors in the U.S. The study also aimed to investigate …
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Learning in Medical School: Relationships Among Achievement Goals and Approaches to Learning in Three Classes of Medical Students
Medical student learning behaviors were examined in terms of achievement goals and approaches to learning. First, second, and third year medical students completed a Questionnaire composed of three extant inventories, the Achievement Goals Questionnaire (AGQ), the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory …
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Examining How Individual Approaches to Learning Support Mentorship Relationships and Greater Well-Being for At-Risk College Students
… for some individuals (Bessey, 2017). However, to date, only a small body of research has examined the characteristics of students’ approaches to learning that may interact with mentorship experiences in higher education and support greater well-being for this population (Mak, 2012). Studies …
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Supporting lifelong learning with Open Educational Resources (OER) among diverse users: motivations for and approaches to learning with different OER
This thesis presents a study which aimed to understand: 1) What motivates and influences learning with Open Educational Resources (OER) among different users, and 2) What role OER play in supporting lifelong learning among different users. The activities of key international organisations promoting …
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Towards an understanding of ESL students' approaches to learning: a study of conceptions of learning, perceptions of situational demands, learning approaches and learning outcomes
… (English as a Second Language) students and the approaches to learning which they adopt, in situations in which English is the language of instruction, is the focus of this study. An attempt was made to identify the extent to which students, who are required to learn in a second language, adopt …
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An exploratory investigation of the approaches to learning of accounting students studying toward a professionally accredited post-graduate programme at the University of Cape Town
… by professional bodies on fostering life-long learning has resulted in interest in student approaches to learning. The aim of this paper is to provide a preliminary investigation into the approaches to learning of accounting students in the context of a South African university by sampling …
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Affective learning companions : strategies for empathetic agents with real-time multimodal affective sensing to foster meta-cognitive and meta-affective approaches to learning, motivation, and perseverance
… of relational agents and intelligent tutoring systems. The system realizes non-invasive multimodal real-time sensing of elements of user's affective state and couples this ability with an agent capable of supporting learners by engaging in real-time responsive expressivity. The agent …
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Student experiences of problem-based learning in engineering: learning cultures of PBL teams
… experiences of first year engineering students to a newly implemented engineering problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum at Victoria University; its effects on their approaches to learning and their learning outcomes. This qualitative study, which uses ethnographic approaches for data …
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Approaches to Learming of Postgraduate Healthcare Professionals in an Outcomes Based Curriculum
This thesis has explored the approaches to learning of postgraduate students from the healthcare profession. Their experiences are placed within the perspectives of their lecturers and external examiner for the programme. I employ a phenomenological approach, through the lens of fourth generation …
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Students’ Experiences Of Studying Undergraduate Mathematics: An Investigation Of Approach, Support And Identity
… throughout their three year degree course, to gain a better understanding of why some students’ attitudes to mathematics change during this period. Research by the "Students Experiences of Undergraduate Mathematics" (SEUM) project (Wiliam, 2005) explored some of the factors influencing …
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Risk, Emergent Skills, and First to Third Grade Achievement: An Opportunity-Propensity Analysis
The purpose of this study is to examine the role of center-based care and children's school readiness in predicting their first and third grade reading and mathematics achievement. Predictions derived from an opportunity-propensity theoretical framework applied to data from the Early Childhood …
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Using social learning environments to leverage traditional supervision of research students: a community of practice perspective
… articulation gap, which is often attributed to insufficient knowledge production processes and surface approaches to learning. Unfortunately, supervisor-student model of supervision, one of the direct, personal interventions to address this challenge, is plagued by multiple flaws. The …
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Relating college students' learning approach to their quality of learning outcome
… been a radical shift in conceptualizations of learning, from viewing the learner as a passive recipient of information, to viewing the learner as an active processor of information. As a result, recent theories have attempted to identify personality characteristics and cognitive abilities that …
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Latino American Children and School Readiness: The Role of Early Care Arrangements and Caregiver language
… interventions, such as high quality child care, to better prepare Latino children for their entry into kindergarten. Findings from several studies already suggest that high quality center-based child care arrangements may have positive impacts on Latino children's academic outcomes. Such research …
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