NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Date
In 20250
Since 20240
Since 2021 (last 5 years)0
Since 2016 (last 10 years)0
Since 2006 (last 20 years)17
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 17 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Ates, Hüseyin; Saylan, Asli – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The purpose of this research was to examine pre-service science teachers' academic motivation and academic self-efficacy toward biology. The sample consisted of 369 pre-service science teachers who enrolled in the faculty of education of two universities in Turkey. Data were collected through Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) (Glynn & Koballa,…
Descriptors: Investigations, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Academic Ability
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Polychroni, Fotini; Hatzichristou, Chryse; Sideridis, Georgios – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
Examining motivational variables may prove to be particularly fruitful towards our understanding of classroom processes, student behaviors and school outcomes. The present study examined the role of personal and contextual goals (goals and goal structures) towards explaining social relationships (peer, teacher-student and home-school). 1493 fifth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Student Motivation, Educational Practices
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Taht, Karin; Must, Olev – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2013
We estimated the invariance of educational achievement (EA) and learning attitudes (LA) measures across nations. A multi-group confirmatory factor analysis was used to estimate the invariance of educational achievement and learning attitudes across 55 nations (Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA] 2006 data, N = 354,203). The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Educational Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Renninger, K. Ann; Cai, Ming; Lewis, Mark C.; Adams, Margot M.; Ernst, Katherine L. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
As hypermedia, online teacher professional development (TPD) should ideally support diverse learners to work with online content effectively because it involves multiple representations and a nonlinear format. Differences among participants in motivation and learning provide challenges for design. The present study is a use-inspired, mixed-method…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Hypermedia, Profiles
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
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
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Chai, Ching Sing; Wong, Lung-Hsiang; Sim, Seok Hwa; Deng, Feng – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
Computer-based writing is already a norm to a large extent in social communication for any major language around the world. From this perspective, it would be pedagogically sound for students to master the Chinese input system as early as possible. This poses some challenges to students in Singapore, most of which are learning Chinese as a second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Chinese, Writing Tests
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Palomar, Joaquina; Montes de Oca, Sandra – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2011
The objective of this study was to identify factors that predict resilience and social mobility in persons living in extreme poverty in Mexico by analyzing an extensive set of school-related variables. A total of 913 adults were surveyed, with 65.2% women and an average age of 43.71 years. Significant correlations were found between the seven…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Resilience (Psychology), Predictor Variables, Social Mobility
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tsai, Fu-Hsing; Yu, Kuang-Chao; Hsiao, Hsien-Sheng – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This study developed an educational online game, Super Delivery, targeting knowledge about saving electricity, and conducted case studies of eight sixth-grade students using this game to explore the factors influencing the effectiveness of students' knowledge acquisition in digital game-based learning (DGBL). This study followed Miles and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Computer Games, Outcomes of Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Yang, Ya-Ting C.; Wu, Wan-Chi I. – Computers & Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of Digital storytelling (DST) on the academic achievement, critical thinking, and learning motivation of senior high school students learning English as a foreign language. The one-year study adopted a pretest and posttest quasi-experimental design involving 110 10th grade students in two English…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
bin Mohamad, Rossafri; Muninday, Balakrishnan; Govindasamy, Malliga – Online Submission, 2010
This article presents a study on the use of multimedia technology for the teaching of Form (Grade) One history, which is a form of narrative subject in nature. Specifically, it is to study the viability of multimedia materials in supporting active learning for subjects which are in narrative form. Due to the scarcity of interactive multimedia…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Learning Motivation, Courseware, Active Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wang, Li-Chun; Chen, Ming-Puu – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2010
Learning to program is difficult for novices, even for those undergraduates who have majored in computer science. The study described in this paper has investigated the effects of game strategy and preference-matching on novice learners' flow experience and performance in learning to program using an experiential gaming activity. One hundred and…
Descriptors: Games, Program Effectiveness, Secondary School Students, Experiential Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hardre, Patricia L.; Sullivan, David W. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
This research investigated relationships among characteristics of students and learning environments influencing variables related to motivation for learning and achievement in rural high schools. Participants were 625 students in all four grades, in 19 rural, public high schools. Questionnaires assessed two environmental factors, three…
Descriptors: High School Students, Teacher Characteristics, Student Motivation, Rural Schools
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ciani, Keith; Ferguson, Yuna; Bergin, David; Hilpert, Jonathan – Educational Psychology, 2010
Some argue that the goal of education is to influence out-of-school learning activity, yet little research exists on how teachers can help students develop an interest in a topic and continue to pursue that interest outside of school. The current study tested classroom context variables from self-determination theory (teachers' autonomy support)…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Teacher Role, Student Motivation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Suh, S.; Kim, S. W.; Kim, N. J. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2010
This study investigated the effectiveness of massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)-based (massive multiplayer online role-playing game) instruction in elementary English education. The effectiveness of the MMORPG program was compared with face-to-face instruction and the independent variables (gender, prior knowledge, motivation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Games, Prior Learning, Learning Motivation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Shen, Bo; McCaughtry, Nate; Martin, Jeffrey; Fahlman, Mariane – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2009
This study applied self-determination theory to investigate the effects of students' autonomous motivation and their perceptions of teacher autonomy support on need satisfaction adjustment, learning achievement, and cardiorespiratory fitness over a 4-month personal conditioning unit. Participants were 253 urban adolescents (121 girls and 132 boys,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Self Determination, Learning Motivation, Teaching Methods
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2