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Effects of concretely illustrated instruction versus abstractly illustrated instruction on acquisition of abstract concepts.
(2000)
The participants in this study are junior and senior students enrolled in an undergraduate introductory instructional development course at a southwestern university. Students in the class were equally divided by visual ...
Transition through two models of early childhood special services.
(2001)
Parents of elementary age children with disabilities were surveyed to identify information and services to them as they and their children made transitions from early intervention and public preschool special education ...
Achievement motivation, internal locus of control, goal orientation, and academic self-efficacy as outcome measures for a course designed to positively affect student academic performance.
(2007)
This study attempted to expand our understanding of possible psychosocial predictive measures of student success and the effectiveness psychosocial outcome measures of an intervention course designed to assist at-risk ...
The influence of using cognitive strategy instruction through writing rubrics on high school students' writing self-efficacy, achievement goal orientation, perceptions of classroom goal structures, self-regulation, and writing achievement.
(2003)
To determine benefits of cognitive strategy instruction when using writing rubrics, 164 students from a large suburban high school in the Southwest United States wrote three essays and completed pre- and post-measures ...
Self-determination theory as a model for motivation in a training context.
(2002)
As billions of dollars are spent annually on employee training, designers and instructors are continuing to look for ways to increase training efficiency and effectiveness. Prior research has demonstrated the importance ...
Fleshing out the voices: The psychological effects of physical punishment in school.
(2005)
This qualitative study examined school corporal punishment from a phenomenological perspective using individual interviews and oral history narrative gathered from participants by audiotape recordings. The research focused ...
The influence of concept mapping on achievement, self-regulation, and self-efficacy in students of English as a second language.
(2001)
This study investigated the effectiveness of concept mapping used as a learning strategy with students in English as a Second Language classrooms. Seventy-nine ESL students participated in the study. Variables of interest ...
Computer-assisted instruction: Demographic variables and student attitudes.
(2000)
This study was an investigation of the relationship between demographic variables and student attitudes toward computer-aided instruction (CAI). selected demographic variables were mathematics aptitude, level of education, ...
Coping styles and adjustment of international graduate students.
(2005)
This study examined the relationship between styles of coping and adjustment in a sample of international graduate students (n = 392) studying in the U.S.A. The Coping Responses Inventory-Adult Form, the College Adjustment ...
Academic stress and graduate student marital satisfaction: Preliminary testing of a conceptual model.
(2003)
This study tested a model relating academically related stress to marital satisfaction in married graduate students. A total of 217 participants, including 134 married and 83 unmarried graduate students, participated in ...