Learning Efficacy Of Students Research Articles

The psychological impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the wellbeing, learning efficacy and sleeping behaviors of Romanian medical students.

The COVID-19 lockdowns are reported to have negatively influenced the wellbeing and learning efficacy of students. In this context, we analyzed the psychological impact of the COVID-19 quarantine on healthcare students, a subpopulation experiencing high stress levels. Our survey-based, cross-sectional study assessed wellbeing indicators, lifestyle and learning behaviors before and during the quarantine for 388 Romanian healthcare students. Our findings included the increase in phone and social media use, at the expense of formal and independent study time; deteriorations in mood, self-organization capacity and learning efficacy, and increased procrastination behaviors. Unexpectedly, our study identified an improvement in sleep quality and duration. The increase in social media use was less severe among rural students. We identified correlations between study time, online activities (including social media), wellbeing indicators and procrastination. Our study draws attention to quarantine-induced deteriorations of wellbeing and learning capacity in an important category of students.

Research on the Construction of Online Open Courses in Higher Education Institutions under the Background of "Three Education" Reform

The creation of online open courses at higher education institutions, as a newly developing higher education teaching mode, has significant potential for development and broad application prospects due to the rapid development and widespread application of information technology. Online open courses have the potential to boost higher education's reputation and standard while also encouraging resource sharing and globalisation of the sector. Yet, there are still certain issues and difficulties with the design and execution of online open courses in higher education institutions, such as a lack of technical assistance and other issues. To address these issues and difficulties, it is essential to boost teaching design and implementation, resource development, platform development, teaching quality monitoring, and course improvement. This will help to further enhance the teaching quality and efficacy of online open courses. The promotion of these initiatives will aid in the digital transformation and innovative development of higher education institutions, enhance the comprehensive quality and efficacy of student learning, and promote the long-term sustainability of higher education as well as the growth of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Yoga practicing medical and nursing students creating a ripple effect: An experience from a Government teaching institution

Yoga is scientifically validated health promotion intervention developed thousands of years ago in India. It is helpful in improving attention, memory and learning efficacy of students along with reduced incidence of depression and anxiety. Introducing yoga in medical curriculum will not only improve the health of students, it will also make them advocates of the same for their patients in future.1. To identify the students who are practicing yoga in medical and nursing college and assess the perceived benefits of yoga practice; 2. To use yoga practicing students to create a ripple effect in the institution for yoga awareness and practice; 3. To incorporate yoga module in the Competency Based Medical Education curriculum(CBME). Interventional study among all medical and nursing students. Started with a pre tested questionnaire. Descriptive statistics is used for analysis of data with Epi-Info7software.Yoga practicing students were motivated to influence the freshers to adopt yoga(Ripple effect). Among 200 students 83 yoga practicing students were selected as study subjects. Among them 38% of them are practicing for more than 1 year and 25% of them for less than 1 month. 78% of students favorably perceived the health benefits of yoga. Sensitization program had influenced the students positively. Students were aware of the importance of Yoga and all of them perceived some benefits by Yoga practice. Using yoga practicing student volunteers to create ripple effect is a novel method to spread awareness and practice.

Learning Environment Variables and the Efficacy of Student Learning in Secondary School in Abak Local Government, Akwa Ibom State

Four research questions and four null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A simple random sampling technique was used in selecting 34 respondents from each 6 schools, with a sample size of 204 was selected from the population of 1,518. The instrument titled LEVSLEQ was used to elicit response from the respondent. The reliability of the research instrument yielded a co-efficient of 0.82. The data was analyzed using dependent t-test and was tested at .05 level of significance. The findings indicated that environmental variable studied influence students’ learning effectiveness.

Exploring students’ learning efficacy

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show the relevance of teachers’ extra role behaviour towards improving students’ learning efficacy status. This study examines the intervening role of art-based teaching pedagogies, i.e. involvement of different forms of art during the traditional teaching session between extra role behaviour and students’ learning efficacy.Design/methodology/approachThe statistical test results showed that teachers’ extra role behaviour is significant for improving and strengthening students’ learning efficacy. Further, the moderation analysis showed that if art is integrated with teachers’ extra role behaviour, the effect on learning efficacy of students will increase. Art-based teaching pedagogies suggest involvement of art in teaching practices. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to evaluate the direct effect of extra role behaviour on students’ learning efficacy with the intervening role of art-based teaching pedagogies.FindingsResults indicated a linear effect of teachers’ extra role behaviour on students’ learning efficacy and that art-based teaching pedagogies had an indirect effect (mediation) on students’ learning efficacy.Originality/valueThe study will bridge the gap between academic initiatives taken and its overall implementation in primary and secondary schools.

The Efficacy of Student Learning in Large-sized Criminal Justice Preparatory Classes

This study compared the performance of students in large-sized criminal justice preparatory classes of up to 300 students to students in small classes of up to 40 students to assess the efficacy of student learning in large classes. Incorporating a pre-post test design, ANOVA, independent, and paired sample t-tests, student scholar characteristics were assessed to determine which students were more likely to benefit from the large class structure. Results indicated that large classes are as efficacious as small classes and that student performance is quite nuanced. More specifically, students’ gender, age, race, ethnicity, status, and major, significantly relate to success in larger classes.

Can the entrepreneurship course improve the entrepreneurial intentions of students?

This study aims to understand whether an entrepreneurship course can improve the entrepreneurial intentions, satisfaction towards the entrepreneurship course and learning efficacy of technical university students. In order to achieve these purposes, this study adopted the pre-test and post-test experimental design for one single subject group and conducted experimental teaching for 18 weeks. During the experiment, in addition to lectures given by the course instructor, experienced speakers with actual entrepreneurial exposure were invited for mentor co-teaching. The results found high satisfaction and better learning efficacy for the above curriculum design and teaching, but the entrepreneurial intentions of students have not been improved. This indicates that with the implementation of the entrepreneurship course, students better understand they are not suitable to pursue an entrepreneurial career. Hence, entrepreneurship education does not teach students to “pursue an entrepreneurial career,” but to apply what they learned to their future jobs. Mentor co-teaching indeed enhances satisfaction towards the course and the learning efficacy of students.

Who does Collaborative Learning Help? The Pedagogical Efficacy of Student Learning Through Collaborative Learning Sessions

The effectiveness of voluntary training programs is inherently difficult to measure due to the issue of selection bias. Random assignment is suggested as a method to ameliorate this bias. We construct our own randomization experiment to gain insight into this question by utilizing a structured platform. In this study, we investigate the efficacy of Collaborative Learning (CL) recitation sessions on student outcomes in large introductory microeconomics sections. We address the selection issues by using a quasi-randomization experiment and measure the treatment effects by programme evaluation methods. We find that the average treatment effect of CL is 4.6-4.9 percent of the final grade or in qualitative terms, a grade change i.e. B to B plus. We also investigate the distributional effects via quantile treatment effects. We find that CL participants at the bottom 40 percentile showed the greatest improvement. Finally, we apply a nonparametric sensitivity analysis and confirm that the sign of the treatment effects is robust to potential violations of the underlying assumptions. Therefore, this voluntary training is effective.

Development of a project-based cooperative learning environment for computer programming courses

One of the important objectives in computer courses is to train students to develop systems cooperatively. Although several existing online systems have provided discussion forums or chatting rooms, more functions need to be provided for conducting project-based cooperative learning activities, such project management, cooperative learning group management, assistance seeking and group working area. In this paper, a cooperative learning system is proposed to assist teachers in conducting project-based cooperative learning activities on the internet. Experimental results show that the system can fulfil the need of students and teachers, and is helpful in enhancing the learning efficacy of students.