Disciplinary and gender differences among higher education students in self‐regulated learning strategies

Students with learning disabilities in higher education: academic strategies profile.

This study compared 191 college students with learning disabilities (LD) and 190 students without LD in four main areas: academic difficulties, learning strategies, functioning during examinations, and students' perception of factors that help or impede their academic success. Analysis of the personal data of students with and without LD revealed no significant differences between groups on gra...

Gender differences in learning style preferences among undergraduate physiology students.

Students have individual learning style preferences including visual (V; learning from graphs, charts, and flow diagrams), auditory (A; learning from speech), read-write (R; learning from reading and writing), and kinesthetic (K; learning from touch, hearing, smell, taste, and sight). These preferences can be assessed using the VARK questionnaire. We administered the VARK questionnaire to under...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

the role of vocabulary learning strategies on vocabulary retention and on language proficiency in iranian efl students

آموزش زبان دوم طی سالهای اخیر بدنبال روشهای بهتری برای تحقق بخشیدن به اهداف معلمین و دانش آموزان بوده است . در مورد معلمین این امر منجر به تحقیقاتی در مورد ساختار زبانی، محاوره ای و تعاملی گردیده است . در مورد دانش آموزان این امر به مطالعاتی درباره نگرش دانش آموزان نسبت به فراگیری در داخل کلاس و بیرون از آن و همچنین انواع مختلف روشهای پردازش ذهنی منجر شده است . هدف از این تحقیق یافتن روشهائی اس...

Gender and Ethnic Differences Among College Students