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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Learning and Study Strategies"”.
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Skill, Will, and Self-Regulation: Assessing the Learning and Study Strategies of University Summer Bridge Program Students
Colleges and universities face a critical challenge in addressing the educational needs of their academically underprepared students. With college dropout rates increasingly rising, post-secondary institutions must ensure that these students have both the knowledge and the skills necessary to …
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Learning and Study Strategies as they Relate to Success in an Open-Entry/Open-Exit College Developmental Reading Course
<p>This study examines whether student interviews, students' responses on the Learning and Study Styles Inventory (LASSI), or both, could be useful for sorting students who are likely to succeed from those students who are less likely to succeed in an open-entry/open-exit college reading skills …
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A Factor-Analytic Study of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory, Second Edition (Lassi-2) in a Sample of University Students
The present study sought to provide a better understanding of the factor structure of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory, Second Edition (LASSI-2) at the item to scale level (via confirmatory factor analysis) and to expand the LASSI-2's psychometric properties (i.e., means, standard …
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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Characteristics as Predictors of College Success Among African-American and Caucasian Students in a Comprehensive Community College
<p>Problem. This study examined the relationship of selected cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics of community college students, particularly Aftican-American and Caucasian students, with self-concept, class attendance patterns, and GPA.</p> <p>Method. The subjects were 185 community college …
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The Effects of Self-Regulation and Recitation on STEM Student Academic Performance
… There is a shortage of students who are retained and persist to graduation in STEM fields and as a result, millions of STEM jobs remain unfilled each year. Four- year institutions have begun to increase the academic quality of STEM gateway courses through supplemental instruction in order to …
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The Impact of an Integrated Study Skills Program on University of La Verne Adult Undergraduates at Vandenberg Air Force Base and Naval Air Station North Island
… to provide unique educational opportunities in learning strategies and study skills for adult students. A difficulty in removing the student from the classroom to provide this specialized training is that many students are unable to transfer the acquired skills back into a variety of different …
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Ready for College: Assessing the Influence of Student Engagement on Student Academic Motivation in a First-Year Experience Program
… partnership between faculty, administrators and staff concerned by attrition among-first year students, was introduced in summer 2012 as a campus initiative to assist first-year college students transition and acclimate to the academic and social systems of the campus environment. VTSA is a …
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Cognitive acceleration across the primary-second level transition
… cognitive level prole of primary (pre-transfer) and second level (post-transfer) students was obtained. This prole showed that virtually no 6th class primary school pupils (age 12.3 years), and little less than 10 percent of 1st year second level students (age 12.8 years) in this study, were at …