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The Effects of Project-Based Learning Activities on Academic Achievement and Motivation in Mathematics in Eighth-Grade Students
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Mudrich, Rachel Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this research study was to determine if project-based learning activities (PBLA) incorporated into an eighth-grade mathematics classroom have an effect on students' academic achievement and motivation toward learning. The control group used the traditional instruction method to cover mathematic objective skills that are Common Core…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement
Perspectives on Motivation and Engagement in an Extracurricular Project
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Bell, J.; Mulrooney, H.M. – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2016
To enhance employability opportunities, a range of co-curricular opportunities are offered to Nutrition students at Kingston University. Student uptake of these opportunities tends to be limited to a small group of highly motivated students. Using an unpaid public health project undertaken as a staff-student partnership as a case study, both the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Extracurricular Activities
Self-Regulated Learning and a Sense of Achievement in MOOCs among High School Science and Technology Students
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Cohen, Lizi; Magen-Nagar, Noga – American Journal of Distance Education, 2016
This study, conducted in Israel, examined how learning strategies and motivational orientations contributed to high school students' sense of achievement in a massive open online course. The objective was to integrate an innovative teaching-learning strategy into the educational system that is based on online learning for students in subjects that…
Descriptors: High School Students, Self Management, Online Courses, Learning Strategies
Student Motivations as Predictors of High-Level Cognitions in Project-Based Classrooms
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Stolk, Jonathan; Harari, Janie – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2014
It is well established that active learning helps students engage in high-level thinking strategies and develop improved cognitive skills. Motivation and self-regulated learning research, however, illustrates that cognitive engagement is an effortful process that is related to students' valuing of the learning tasks, adoption of internalized goal…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Active Learning, Learner Engagement, Thinking Skills
Understanding of the Relationship between Interest and Expectancy for Success in Engineering Design Activity in Grades 9-12
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Lawanto, Oenardi; Santoso, Harry B.; Liu, Yang – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
In this study, the relationship between students' interest in engineering design activities and their expectancy for success in grades 9-12 was evaluated. The theoretical frameworks developed by Eccles and colleagues (i.e., expectancy value) and Butler and Cartier (i.e., what the students bring to contexts under a self-regulated learning…
Descriptors: Design, Engineering Education, Expectation, Student Interests
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