… in electrical engineering courses in higher education (Entwistle & Tait, 1989), first-year
students … Entwistle, NJ & Tait, H. (1989). 'Factors influencing academic performance in electrical …

… The successful students showed the expected pattern of relationships even more clearly
than in the analysis of the whole sample (Entwistle & Tait, 1990). The first factor linked the deep …

As the proportion of students entering higher education rises, difficulties caused by inadequate
preparation also increase. An ongoing study is developing a computer-based system to …

… h. - books which give you definite facts and information which can easily be learned. … In
a recent analysis (Entwistle, Tait & McCune, 2000) data from ASSIST was obtained from …

Background Researchers and policy-makers are increasingly working together with the goal
of creating research that is focused on solving real-world problems; however, knowledge …

… In a previous study, Entwistle and Tait (1990) described relationships between contrasting
… in this study has already been described (Entwistle and Tait 1990) and is not repeated here. …

… Edinburgh by developing a computerbased advice system in Hypertext which identifies
the apparent weaknesses reported by individual students and offers advice on those areas (Tait …

… Each road trial took approximately 2.5 h and included 15 min of simulated showroom
conditions, followed by approximately 120 min of driving over the standard 60 mile test route …

The monitoring and detection of global climate change is one of the great challenges for
modern satellite observing systems. The Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) …

The theme of this volume is The Design of Constructivist Learning Environments. To begin,
we need to explore why we might need such environments in education, and then to identify …