Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 1 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 2 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 7 |
Descriptor
Gender Differences | 7 |
Learning Motivation | 7 |
Grade 6 | 6 |
Student Attitudes | 5 |
Foreign Countries | 4 |
Grade 8 | 3 |
Likert Scales | 3 |
Measures (Individuals) | 3 |
Academic Achievement | 2 |
Elementary School Students | 2 |
Grade 5 | 2 |
More ▼ |
Source
Educational Technology &… | 1 |
European Journal of… | 1 |
European Journal of… | 1 |
Journal of Research in… | 1 |
Learning and Instruction | 1 |
National Research Center on… | 1 |
Penn GSE Perspectives on… | 1 |
Author
Aznam, Nurfina | 1 |
Clemons, Trudy L. | 1 |
Finsterwald, Monika | 1 |
Fortus, David | 1 |
Hsiao, Hsien-Sheng | 1 |
Luftenegger, Marko | 1 |
Mora, Richard | 1 |
Paidi | 1 |
Salmi, Hannu | 1 |
Schober, Barbara | 1 |
Spiel, Christiane | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 6 |
Reports - Research | 6 |
Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Education Level
Grade 6 | 7 |
Elementary Education | 6 |
Middle Schools | 6 |
Intermediate Grades | 5 |
Grade 8 | 4 |
Junior High Schools | 4 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 3 |
Grade 7 | 3 |
Secondary Education | 3 |
Grade 5 | 2 |
Grade 9 | 1 |
More ▼ |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
No Child Left Behind Act 2001 | 1 |
Race to the Top | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
Raven Progressive Matrices | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Susilawati; Aznam, Nurfina; Paidi – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
It should be noted that learning outcomes are not students' only achievement; attitude is also the main output in learning. This research explores students' attitudes toward science learning based on gender and the grade level of schools in Aceh, Indonesia. The participants are 1,023 students from the sixth grade of primary schools and the eighth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Fortus, David; Vedder-Weiss, Dana – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
Continuing motivation for science learning may be manifested through engagement in extracurricular science-related activities, which are not the result of school or other external requirements. Very few articles have appeared in the last decade on this important aspect of science learning. This article presents a survey based on seven Likert-type…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Science Activities, Extracurricular Activities, Learning Motivation
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
Salmi, Hannu; Thuneberg, Helena; Vainikainen, Mari-Pauliina – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Outreach activities, like mobile science exhibitions, give opportunities to hands-on experiences in an attractive learning environment. We analysed attitudes, motivation and learning during a science exhibition visit, their relations to gender and future educational plans in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Belgium (N = 1210 sixth-graders). Pupils'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Attitudes, Gender Differences, Outreach Programs
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
Mora, Richard – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2011
Existing evidence suggests that high stakes exams result in little increased learning among students. Yet, given the federal mandates for greater accountability, such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation and Race to the Top policies, and the "pervasive testing culture," the use of high-stakes tests is presently an accepted…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Urban Schools, Middle School Students, Test Preparation
Clemons, Trudy L. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among students' self-perception, attitudes toward school, study and organizational skills, achievement motivation, attributional style, gender, parental involvement and style, parental income and parental level of education, and students' academic performance or achievement. Using…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted, Grade Point Average