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Learners' motivational characteristics in statistics: A causal model.
(1997)
A total of 263 participants enrolled in three introductory statistics courses completed a two-part instrument measuring the variables of interest prior to their midterm exam. In order to assess the validity of the causal ...
A comparison of the effects of procedural and metacognition instruction on the transfer of computer software skills.
(1999)
This study investigated the influence of instructional strategies on software application transfer. An introductory computer course was used to determine the impact of metacognitive strategies on transfer of software ...
Administration Guide for the Opinions about Deaf People Scale: A Scale To Measure Hearing Adults' Beliefs about the Capabilities of Deaf Adults
(1994-04)
Instructions for the administration of the Opinions about Deaf People Scale are given. This scale measures the beliefs of hearing adults about the capabilities of deaf adults. The somewhat ambiguous title of the instrument ...
Validation of a measure of teachers' efficacy and outcome expectations in the content domains of reading and mathematics.
(1997)
Confirmatory factor analysis procedures failed to produce similar findings as the Rasch procedures. This was an interesting, but not entirely unexpected result. The lack of congruence between the results of these two ...
Patterns of analytical thinking and knowledge use in students' early understanding of the limit concept.
(1999)
This study explored first-semester calculus students' early understanding of limits, relative to their function knowledge and graphing calculator use. The purpose was to identify and describe students' patterns of analytical ...
Mathematical empowerment: A case study of relational classroom learning.
(1999)
Problems were selected as part of the evolution of the class to challenge the students, to reinforce the search for patterns, and to evoke questions and problem-posing from the students. Through interactions with each other ...
Fictive kinship, racial identity, peer influence, attitudes toward school, and future goals: Relationships with achievement for African-American high school students.
(1998)
This study examined the relationships among measures of fictive kinship, racial identity, attitudes towards school, influence of peers, and future goals and achievement among African American high school students. The study ...
Iconic and schematic maps: A comparative study.
(1998)
One study finding is disappointing: that schematic maps do not promote greater map comprehension than do iconic maps. However, the study suggests that prior verbal instruction may have positive results for recalling map ...
Faculty definitions of and beliefs about student ability: Are they related to classroom structures, student retention, and student pass rates?
(1998)
Analysis of the interviews indicated that faculty do not have a common definition of mathematical ability and while all believed that students could learn, a few voiced the belief that students have ceilings or limits to ...
The relationships among written feedback, motivation, and changes in written performance.
(1997)
These results support Bandura's contention that self-efficacy is malleable and positively related to improvements in performance. The results concerning student goals are more ambiguous. Consistent with Butler's research ...