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Luftenegger, Marko; Schober, Barbara; van de Schoot, Rens; Wagner, Petra; Finsterwald, Monika; Spiel, Christiane – Learning and Instruction, 2012
Fostering lifelong learning (LLL) is a topic of high relevance for current educational policy. School lays the cornerstone for the key components of LLL, specifically persistent motivation to learn and self-regulated learning behavior. The present study investigated the impact of classroom instruction variables on concrete determinants for these…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Personal Autonomy, Self Control, Learning Motivation
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Law, Yin-Kum; Chan, Carol K. K.; Sachs, John – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
Background: Most studies have investigated college and high school students' epistemological beliefs in Western contexts, with few studies examining how beliefs about learning are related to children's strategies and comprehension in the Chinese cultural context. Aims: The present study investigated Chinese elementary school children's beliefs…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Reading Comprehension, Learning Strategies, Factor Analysis
Garcia-Sanchez, Jesus-Nicasio; Fidalgo-Redondo, Raquel – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2006
We examined the differential effects of the social cognitive model of sequential skill acquisition (SCM intervention) and the self-regulated strategy development model (SRSD intervention) for writing. One hundred and twenty-one 5th- and 6th-grade Spanish students with learning disabilities (LD) and/or low achievement (LA) were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Intervention, Self Efficacy, Learning Disabilities, Low Achievement