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What Are They Thinking? Exploring College Students' Mental Processing and Decision Making about COVID-19 (Mis)Information on Social Media
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Jeffrey A. Greene; Christina Hollander-Blackmon; Eric A. Kirk; Victor M. Deekens – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
More and more, people are abandoning the active pursuit of news, assuming instead that important information will be pushed to them via their social media networks. This approach to news makes people susceptible to the vast amounts of misinformation online, yet research on the effects of this kind of engagement is mixed. More research is needed on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, COVID-19, Pandemics, Decision Making
The Bad Test-Taker Identity
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Holmes, Jeffrey D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2021
There is widespread belief that test-taking ability is an influential component of academic success distinct from domain knowledge and comprehension. Most of today's college students took many more tests over the course of their primary and secondary education than students of previous generations, and also participated in regular training to…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Student Attitudes, Identification (Psychology), Test Wiseness
Ability and Responsibility: Need for Cognition and Study Habits in Academic Achievement
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Hawthorne, 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
Examining Need for Closure and Need for Cognition as Predictors of Foreign Language Anxiety and Enjoyment
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Rezazadeh, Mohsen; Zarrinabadi, Nourollah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This study investigated the relationship between need for closure and need for cognition and foreign language anxiety and enjoyment. The participants of the study were 232 EFL learners at a university in Iran. Self-report questionnaires on need for closure, need for cognition, foreign language classroom anxiety and foreign language enjoyment were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Cognitive Processes
An Association between Montessori Education in Childhood and Adult Wellbeing
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Angeline S. Lillard; M. Joseph Meyer; Dermina Vasc; Eren Fukuda – Grantee Submission, 2021
Wellbeing, or how people think and feel about their lives, predicts important life outcomes from happiness to health to longevity. Montessori pedagogy has features that enhance wellbeing contemporaneously and predictively, including self-determination, meaningful activities, and social stability. Here, 1905 adults, ages 18-81 (M = 36), filled out…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Outcomes of Education, Adults, Well Being
The Mathematical, Motivational, and Cognitive Characteristics of High Mathematics Achievers in Primary School
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Bakker, Merel; Torbeyns, Joke; Verschaffel, Lieven; De Smedt, Bert – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Many studies in the past decades have focused on low and typical mathematics achievers, yet little is known about children with high mathematics achievement, particularly at a young age. The current study aimed to fill this gap and started from the early work of Krutetskii (1976) as a theoretical lens to study the characteristics of high…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement