Student group formation plays a critical role in terms of enhancing the success of academic learning. It involves structuring groups in order to help students to learn together. Due to the heterogeneity of students in classes, the process of forming student groups is becoming more complex. In this paper, we proposed an approach to form student groups at a university for software development pro...

BACKGROUND Energy drinks are intended for people who work hard, both physically and mentally, particularly young people engaged in an active lifestyle. OBJECTIVE To assess the intake of energy drinks in a student group, during examinations and throughout an academic year. MATERIALS AND METHODS A survey was performed on 92 students attending the Faculty of Human Nutrition and Consumer Scienc...

Tertiary teaching is interactive process and by no means unilateral. Lecturers are increasingly interested in students’ knowledge and understanding. Assessing students with the tests proposed provides the lecturers feedback on the students’ accomplishments; not only on parts of teaching material did they acquire, but also the information on which parts do they understand better and which parts ...

The present study examines the relationship between codependency and caregiving to determine whether codependent persons tend to be attracted to caregiving professions. The study also examined the relationship between codependency, self-esteem, and locus of control, as measured by the Friel Co-Dependency Assessment Inventory (Friel, 1985; Friel & Friel, 1987), the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (...

The role that student friendship groups play in learning was investigated here. Employing a critical realist design, two focus groups on undergraduates were conducted to explore their experience of studying. Data from the "case-by-case" analysis suggested student-to-student friendships produced social contexts which facilitated conceptual understanding through discussion, explanation, and appli...

Self-formed out-of-class study groups may benefit student learning; however, few researchers have quantified the relationship between study group use and achievement or described changes in study group usage patterns over a semester. We related study group use to performance on content exams, explored patterns of study group use, and qualitatively described student perceptions of study groups. ...

We recently reported that collaborative testing (i.e., group test taking) increased student performance on quizzes. It is unknown, however, whether collaborative testing improves student retention of course content. Therefore, this study was designed to test the hypotheses that collaborative-group testing improves student retention of course content. To test this hypothesis, our undergraduate e...

OBJECTIVES To compare learning outcomes and perceptions of facilitator behaviours and small-group process in problem-based learning (PBL) groups led by students and those led by faculty. DESIGN A prospective, Latin-square cross-over design was employed. Second-year medical students participated in 11 PBL cases over the course of the academic year. For each case, half the student groups were l...

The present study assessed agreement between student self-report and teacher ratings of bullying and victimization relative to psychological, behavioral, and academic correlates. Middle school students (N=1442) and teachers completed surveys evaluating peer relationships and psychosocial adjustment. Analyses of variance and logistic regressions were used to examine rater agreement on bullying/v...