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Students' stress: The relationship of college students' stress variables to goal orientations, academic self-concept, and achievement variables.
(1997)
Results revealed that Academic Self-Concept was the most influential and predictive of GPA. Cognitive Appraisal Strategies and Negative Personal Beliefs Stressors had strong influences on Academic Self-Concept. Furthermore, ...
The application of music history and music theory in keyboard study to facilitate the development of beginning stages of critical thinking.
(1997)
Each weekly session was video-taped. Written observations by the researcher were organized under these headings: amount of dialogue between the researcher and student, the student's interest in the workbook activities, ...
An exploration of processes used in case analysis by pre-service teacher education students in a media and technology course.
(1997)
The purpose of this study was to examine the processes used in case analysis by preservice teachers in a media and technology course. Four aspects of case analysis were examined: (a) how students process information in ...
Knowledge structures and problem representation for multiple concurrent and potential problems.
(1997)
To investigate the research questions posed by this study, a novice/expert comparison design was used. The problem solving domain of interest was home health care nursing, with five newly licensed RNs participating as ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The effects of a classroom anger management program on levels of anger and depression in fourth-grade students.
(1997)
Posttest analyses revealed a significant treatment effect on self-reported and teacher reported levels of student anger in the classroom, with no significant effect on levels of depression. The need for peer evaluations ...