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Natalie Brezack; Melissa Lee; Kelly Collins; Wynnie Chan; Mingyu Feng – Grantee Submission, 2025
Students' effort and emotions are important contributors to math learning. In a recent study evaluating the efficacy of MathSpring, a scalable web-based intelligent tutoring system that provides students with personalized math problems and affective support, system usage data were collected for 804 U.S. 10-12-year-olds. To understand the patterns…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Problem Solving, Behavior Patterns, Student Behavior
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Camacho, Ana; Alves, Rui A.; De Smedt, Fien; Van Keer, Hilde; Boscolo, Pietro – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Writing is a particularly demanding activity, which poses unique motivational challenges for students. Despite the wealth of research on the relation between writing motivation and writing performance, little is known about the role of students' writing frequency in writing motivation and writing performance. Aims: We aimed to: (1)…
Descriptors: Correlation, Writing Attitudes, Motivation, Behavior Patterns
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Bal, Ayten Pinar; Or, Merve Buse – Pedagogical Research, 2023
This study examined the relationship between secondary school students' problem-solving success and perceptions using a relational survey model. This study investigated 378 students (212 girls and 166 boys) in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades between 11 and 14 years old using the convenience sampling method. The problem-solving inventory for…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Problem Solving
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Liu, Min; Li, Chenglu; Pan, Zilong; Pan, Xin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
More research is needed on how to best use analytics to support educational decisions and design effective learning environments. This study was to explore and mine the data captured by a digital educational game designed for middle school science to understand learners' behavioral patterns in using the game, and to use evidence-based findings to…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Instructional Design, Instructional Effectiveness
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Erickson, Megan; Gresham, Frank – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2019
Universal screening serves to identify students at risk for emotional and behavioral difficulties while their behavior is still amenable to treatment. However, there are few universal screeners available for middle school students who may be at heightened risk for developing emotional and behavioral difficulties due to major academic and social…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Behavior, Screening Tests, Behavior Disorders
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Chu, Tsz Lun; Martin, Scott B.; Petrie, Trent A.; Greenleaf, Christy – Psychology in the Schools, 2019
Guided by the biopsychosocial model, we examined (a) the prevalence of weight control behaviors (WCBs; i.e., trying to stay the same weight, lose weight, gain weight, or do nothing about weight) among early adolescent boys by race/ethnicity and grade level, and (b) how the boys' perceptions of sociocultural pressures (from parents, peers, and…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Males, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Dawes, Molly; Xie, Hongling – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The effect of popularity goal on the use of 3 popularity-related behaviors and later popularity status was examined in a diverse sample of 314 6th-grade students (176 girls and 138 boys) in both fall (Time 1) and spring (Time 2) semesters. Popularity goal and the use of popularity-driven behaviors (e.g., "I change the way I dress in order to…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Peer Acceptance, Goal Orientation, Role