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Development of an Immersive Virtual Reality System for Learning about Plants in Primary Education: Evaluation of Teachers' Perceptions and Learners' Flow Experiences and Learning Attitudes
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Kun-Hung Cheng – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
This study aimed to establish a fully 3D modeled immersive virtual reality (IVR) system for primary school students learning about plants and evaluate teachers' perceptions of the usage of the system and pupils' flow experiences and learning attitudes. There were 5 teachers with expertise in science and IVR experience who were first interviewed to…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Plants (Botany), Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Students' Usage of Strengths and General Happiness Are Connected via School-Related Factors
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Vuorinen, Kaisa; Hietajärvi, Lauri; Uusitalo, Lotta – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Previous research has shown that there is a link between usage of strengths and various positive outcomes, such as finding meaning and happiness in life. In our present study, we aimed to find out how usage of strengths is connected to general happiness with school-related factors as mediating variables. 418 Finnish students aged 10-16 filled a…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Psychological Patterns, Correlation, Models
Patterns of Change in Children's Loneliness: Trajectories from Third through Fifth Grades
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Jobe-Shields, Lisa; Cohen, Robert; Parra, Gilbert R. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011
Latent growth-mixture modeling was used to investigate patterns of change in loneliness for 170 children from third through fifth grades. A three-class model representing unique trajectories of loneliness provided the best overall fit to the data, including a Stable Low group (65%), as well as groups of Increasers (23%) and Decreasers (12%).…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Peer Relationship, Grade 3, Victims of Crime
The Role of Individual and Social Factors in Classroom Loneliness
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Stoeckli, Georg – Journal of Educational Research, 2009
The author investigated the role of individual characteristics (self-esteem, social anxiety, and self-reported classroom participation) and peer reactions (peer-perceived shyness, peer nominations) in classroom loneliness in a sample of 704 preadolescent boys (360) and girls (344). It was hypothesized that classroom participation functions as a…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Structural Equation Models, Anxiety, Social Influences
Peer Rejection, Negative Peer Treatment, and School Adjustment: Self-Concept and Classroom Engagement as Mediating Processes
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Buhs, Eric S. – Journal of School Psychology, 2005
Data gathered from a short term longitudinal study within fifth grade classrooms (n=378) were used to evaluate two process-oriented models linking peer rejection and negative peer treatment to children's self-concept, school engagement and adjustment. Both structural models linked peer rejection, victimization, and exclusion to children's…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Student Adjustment, Rejection (Psychology), Peer Relationship
The Relationship between Loneliness and Interpersonal Trust during Middle Childhood
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Rotenberg, Ken J.; MacDonald, Keltie J.; King, Emily V. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2004
The authors administered measures of loneliness, generalized trust beliefs in peers, and trust beliefs in specific familiar peers (i.e., opposite-gender peers, same-gender peers, close same-gender peers) to a sample of 63 children (33 girls, 30 boys) from 4th and 5th grades (M age = 10 years, 6 months). They assessed children's trusting behavior…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Friendship, Peer Relationship