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Relationship between High School Students' Motivation Levels and Learning Strategies
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Saraçoglu, Gülçin – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
This study aims to reveal high school students' learning strategies and motivation levels, the relationship between their learning strategies and motivation levels and to determine if these two variables differ according to gender and grade at school. This study was conducted in correlational survey model. Besides, "Motivation and Learning…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies, Gender Differences
The Effect of Individual Differences in the Development of Metacognitive Strategy Knowledge
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Karlen, Yves; Merki, Katharina Maag; Ramseier, Erich – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2014
The aim of this study was to investigate the development of metacognitive strategy knowledge (MSK) during schooling at the upper secondary education level and to examine its relation with individual student characteristics. This longitudinal study with two measurement points analyzed a sample of students in grades 10 and 11 from 19 schools…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Metacognition, Prediction, Socioeconomic Status
Effects of Perceived Teacher Practices on Latino High School Students' Interest, Self-Efficacy, and Achievement in Mathematics
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Riconscente, Michelle M. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2014
The author examined the effects of teacher caring, teacher content explanations, and teacher interest promotion on Latino students' interest, self-efficacy, and achievement in mathematics. Participants in the year-long study were 326 Latino 9th- and 10th-grade students attending a large urban high school in southern California. Teacher variables…
Descriptors: High School Students, Hispanic American Students, Student Interests, Self Efficacy
Engagement in Self-Regulated Deep Learning of Successful Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Students in Inner City Schools
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Blom, Sarah; Severiens, Sabine – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2008
In order to examine and explain differences in self-regulated (SR) deep learning of successful immigrant and non-immigrant students we investigated a population of 650 high track 10th grade students in Amsterdam, of which 39% had an immigrant background. By means of a questionnaire based on the MSLQ of Pintrich and De Groot (1990) the students…
Descriptors: Females, Factor Analysis, Urban Areas, Grade 10
Motivation and Learning--The Role of Interest in Construction of Representation of Text and Long-Term Retention: Inter- and Intraindividual Analyses
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Naceur, Abdelmajid; Schiefele, Ulrich – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2005
The present work examined the influence of topic interest on the strength of different components of text representation and long-term retention according to the model of text processing by van Dijk and Kintsch (1983). A Series of relevant personality characteristics were assessed to control for alternative explanations of interest effect, A total…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Student Interests, Student Motivation, Retention (Psychology)