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Direct linkEmre Toprak; Ahmet Metin; Demet Ünalan – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Studies showed that fear of negative evaluation of students may affect their academic motivation. However, which variables mediate between academic motivation and fear of negative evaluation is unclear. This study aims to explore the mediating role of cognitive flexibility and critical thinking in the relationship between academic motivation and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
LaPaglia, Sonja Kirsten – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigated how undergraduate college students with different STEM career orientations differ in their motivation toward science education. The purpose of this study was to surface differences in the quality of motivations between groups of students with different orientations toward STEM careers to support them in science education…
Descriptors: College Students, Adolescents, Science Education, Learning Motivation
Download full textHawthorne, Melissa J.; Cooper, Alisha; Chavis, Katie; Burrell, Tracey; Evans, Cay – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2021
Student success is an ongoing area of interest to educators and researchers alike. The current study seeks to expand the literature on what factors help or hinder students by examining the roles of Need for Cognition (NfC), academic motivation, and student study habits in academic success. The results indicated that NfC scores, Personal…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Positive Attitudes
Yurtseven, Nihal; Dogan, Selçuk – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2019
Academic procrastination has been one of the major problems among students from different levels of education, specifically for college students. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of problem solving skill, a kind of cognitive skill, as well as academic motivation on academic procrastination behaviors of university students. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes
Elsayed, Sabah Abdalla; Al-Najrani, Hamda Ibrahim – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This research aimed to identify the effectiveness of augmented reality technology on improving visual thinking in mathematics and academic motivation among middle school learners in Saudi Arabia. To accomplish the research objectives, the experimental method with a quasi-experimental design was adopted and it included an experimental group and a…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Thinking Skills
Koc-Januchta, Marta M.; Schönborn, Konrad J.; Tibell, Lena A. E.; Chaudhri, Vinay K.; Heller, H. Craig – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to support science learning is a prominent aspect of the digital education revolution. This study investigates students' interaction and learning with an AI book, which enables the inputting of questions and receiving of suggested questions to understand biology, in comparison with a traditional E-book.…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Textbook Content, Science Materials, Biology
Warden, David N; Myers, Charlsie A. – College Student Journal, 2017
The relationship between domain-specific nonintellective variables and academic achievement among nontraditional students was explored to address uninvestigated factors and clarify distinctions between nontraditional and traditional student achievement. College students (nontraditional n = 72, traditional n = 67) completed an online survey…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement, College Students
