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A comparison of the relationships between levels of commitment and levels of professional socialization and how they relate to college student persistence.
(1998)
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationships between professional socialization, professional commitment, and college students' intent to persist toward degree attainment. The subjects (182) were first-year, ...
Cheating and motivation: An examination of the relationships among cheating behaviors, motivational goals, cognitive engagement, and perceptions of classroom goal structures.
(1998)
Academic cheating was examined from a motivational perspective. Two constructs served as the basis for exploring relationships between cheating and intrinsic motivation: intrinsic motivation for cheating (the degree to ...
How perceptions of the future influence achievement motivation.
(1998)
The research reported here was guided by a theoretical model developed by Miller and Brickman (1997). The model depicts future goals and the plans to reach them as impacting self-regulation for present achievement. To ...
Assessing conceptual ecologies.
(1998)
The participants of this study developed diagrams and repertory grid matrices that assessed their perceptions of the relationships between concepts related to "research". The diagrams and matrices suggested a level of ...
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 ...
Curiosity and self-directed learning readiness among a sample of baccalaureate nursing students.
(1998)
The curiosity materials, based on Berlyne's theory of epistemic curiosity, included ten psychological experiment accounts and participants rated three responses: (1) how surprising or unexpected the results were; (2) how ...
Perceptions of co-teachers: An exploration of characteristics and components needed for co-teaching.
(1998)
Data from the study were obtained from two sources. Eighty-four participants (42 co-teaching pairs) returned three questionnaires. The second source of data consisted of interviews from 14 participants (7 co-teaching pairs). ...