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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 ...
Effects of self-construals on university students' causal attributions, self-efficacy beliefs, and self-handicapping behavior.
(2004)
Participants were administered the Self-Construal Scale (Singelis, 1994), the Implicit Theory Measure (Dweck & Henderson, 1989), the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Survey (Midgley et al., 2000), the subject-specific ...
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 ...
Learning economics in an online environment: Evaluating the impact of collaborative learning and instructional audio/video on learner achievement, goal orientation, self-efficacy, sense of learning community, and attrition.
(2003)
This study measured the impact the use of recorded instructional lectures via audio and video along with collaborative learning strategies had on learner achievement, goal orientation, self-efficacy, sense of learning ...
Approaches to values education in primary education: An instrument validation study to measure teachers’ approaches to values education
(2021)
In the literature, the concepts values education, moral education, and character education are used interchangeably. Academic studies under these titles can be seen in many countries and several developments have recently ...
Decision-making in child abuse and neglect: The impact of clinician characteristics on potential reporting behaviors.
(2006)
The purpose of this study was to further clarify the impact of clinician characteristics on child abuse and neglect reporting decisions. Examined characteristics included personal attributes, training, length of practice, ...
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 ...
INFLUENCES ON HISPANIC-AMERICAN ACADEMIC FACTORS: A SELF-DETERMINED AND SYSTEMS ORIENTED ISSUE
(2015-05-08)
Recent findings reveal that Hispanic-American high school students graduate at a rate 30% lower than Caucasian students. This study examined the influence of Hispanic cultural values, acculturation and familial factors on ...