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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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Power, F. Clark; Seroczynski, A. D. – Journal of Character Education, 2015
Can youth sports build character? Research suggests that the answer to this question leads to 2 further questions: (1) can youth sport coaches be effectively prepared to become character educators, and (2) can character education take place in today's competitive youth sport environment? (Bredemeier & Shields, 2006; Power, 2015; Power &…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Athletic Coaches, Moral Values, Values Education
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Konig, Susanne; Gluck, Judith – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
Previous studies with adults have shown that age has an important influence on laypeople's wisdom theories. However, children's and adolescents' understanding of the concept of wisdom has hardly been investigated. In the current study, 80 children and adolescents completed a questionnaire concerning an event where they had been wise and an event…
Descriptors: Barriers, Accidents, Age, Adolescents
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Ziegler, Albert; Stoeger, Heidrun – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
There is ample evidence that labeled gifted students exhibit maladaptive behavior patterns. According to Carol Dweck those students who subscribe to a fixed view of their abilities are particularly at risk. In this contribution we extended Dweck's framework and distinguished two aspects of the implicit theory of one's own abilities. We…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted, At Risk Students
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Butler, Ruth; Shibaz, Limor – Learning and Instruction, 2008
This study examined a new achievement-goal approach to teacher motivation by testing the predictions that mastery and ability-avoidance goals for teaching would predict students' reports of teacher support for and inhibition of question asking and help seeking, as well as students' help seeking and cheating. Surveys were completed by 53 teachers…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Student Attitudes, Cheating, Teacher Motivation
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Paulsen, Erik; Bru, Edvin – School Psychology International, 2008
The main objective of this study was to gain knowledge as to how social passivity in school is related to the grades pupils achieve. The relation between social passivity and school grades received in eight different subjects, varying according to familiarity to teachers, demands of cooperation with peers and demands for public display of learning…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grades (Scholastic), Familiarity, Cooperation
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Baker, Ryan; Walonoski, Jason; Heffernan, Neil; Roll, Ido; Corbett, Albert; Koedinger, Kenneth – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2008
In recent years there has been increasing interest in the phenomena of "gaming the system," where a learner attempts to succeed in an educational environment by exploiting properties of the system's help and feedback rather than by attempting to learn the material. Developing environments that respond constructively and effectively to…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Computer Assisted Instruction