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“You just can't save them all”: understanding mathematics teachers’ teaching self-efficacy development through the lens of attribution beliefs
(2021-11-09)
The purpose of this study was to explore how mathematics teachers in urban schools serving disadvantaged communities develop their teaching self-efficacy and how teachers’ attribution beliefs were related to their ...
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, ...
Cultural identification and academic achievement: Validation of the Cultural Connectedness Achievement Measure and its use in understanding motivational characteristics of oppositional, racelessness and primary cultural identification.
(2006)
The present study presents evidence regarding the reliability and validity of the Cultural Connectedness Achievement Measure (CLAM). The CCAM consist of three subscales representing three cultural dimensions of African ...
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 ...
The relationship of structural components of sociotropy and autonomy with gender identity and depression.
(1998)
Newman, Gray, and Fuqua (1996) observed that definitions of sociotropy and autonomy, as well as specific items on the SAS, appear to overlap in some fundamental ways with definitions of femininity and masculinity. In a ...
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 ...
The impact of narrative storytelling on cognitive re-composition in individuals struggling with eating disorders.
(2005)
Externalization is the separation of the person from the problem. This narrative based research used a mixed method research design conducted with 16 participants. Participants engaged in writing stories from an externalized ...
The interaction of cognitive-behavioral therapy with integrated couple therapy for the treatment of depression in women.
(1997)
A 4 x 3 ANOVA indicated significant clinical improvement in depression and marital satisfaction due to time involved in therapy. The treatment conditions were not significantly different in their efficacy from one another. ...