Mind the gap: smoothing the transition to higher education fostering time management skills

Tabuenca, Bernardo; Greller, Wolfgang; Verpoorten, Dominique

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Mind the gap: smoothing the transition to higher education fostering time management skills

Tabuenca, Bernardo; Greller, Wolfgang; Verpoorten, Dominique

2021 • In Universal Access in the Information Society

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time management skills; learning analytics; first-year experience; curriculum development; mobile learning; self-regulated learning

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[en] Freshmen in Higher Education are required to exhibit a strong inclination to taking ownership of their own learning. It entails well-developed self-regulated learning competences. This demand is further exacerbated in purely online settings such as open distant learning, MOOCs, or disruptive circumstances like the COVID pandemic. Time management skills are an essential component in this process and the target of this study, wherein 348 students covered a course through two conditions: the control group attended the semester in an unchanged way, while students in the experimental group were weekly invited to estimate and log their workload and time allocations, via “reflection amplifiers” provided on their mobile devices. While no major difference in time management and learning performance was observable, data reveals that perceived time allocation and prescribed study-time differ substantially. These results raise questions, on the students’ side, about the potential of qualitative (self-inputted) learning analytics to raise awareness on where time investments go. On the teachers’ side, the results highlight the need to better plan the curricula workload specifically for first-year students.

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Education & instruction

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Tabuenca, Bernardo

Greller, Wolfgang

Verpoorten, Dominique ; Université de Liège - ULiège > IFRES : Pédagogie de l'Enseignement supérieur

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English

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Mind the gap: smoothing the transition to higher education fostering time management skills

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[fr] Faciliter la transition secondaire-supérieur en apprenant à gérer son temps

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13 August 2021

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Universal Access in the Information Society

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1615-5289

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1615-5297

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Springer, Germany

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Peer reviewed

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-021-00833-z

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REF in APA: Tabuenca, B., Greller, W., & Verpoorten, D. (2021). Mind the gap: smoothing the transition to higher education fostering time management skills. Universal Access in the Information Society, 1-13.

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