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Critical and Creative Thinking as Learning Processes at Top-Ranking Chinese Middle Schools: Possibilities and Required Improvements
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Liu, Z. K.; He, J.; Li, B. – High Ability Studies, 2015
Fostering and enabling critical and creative thinking of students is considered an important goal, and it is assumed that in particular, talented students have considerable potential for applying such high-level cognitive processes for learning in classrooms. However, Chinese students are often considered as rote learners, and that learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Learning Processes
Investigating Factors in the Retention of Students in High School Physical Education
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Lodewyk, Ken R.; Pybus, Colin M. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2013
Several studies have reported declining student enrolment rates in optional physical education. This study--incorporating constructs from social cognitive, self-determination, and body image theory--investigated factors that might be influential to this trend. Surveys were administered to 227 tenth-grade students from five schools in one school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Physical Activity Level, High Schools
Engineering Design Activity: Understanding How Different Design Activities Influence Students' Motivation in Grades 9-12. Final Report. A Seed Grant Research Project. Research in Engineering and Technology Education
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Lawanto, Oenardi; Stewardson, Gary – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2009
The objective of this study was to evaluate grade 9-12 students' motivation while engaged in two different engineering design projects: marble-sorter and bridge designs. The motivation components measured in this study were focused on students' intrinsic (IGO) and extrinsic (EGO) goal orientations, task value (TV), self-efficacy for learning and…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Questionnaires, Correlation, Student Motivation