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Fangzheng Zhao; Richard E. Mayer; Nicoletta Adamo-Villani; Christos Mousas; Minsoo Choi; Klay Hauser – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2025
Do students learn from video lessons presented by pedagogical agents of different racial and gender types equivalently to those delivered by a real human instructor? How do the race and gender of these agents impact students' learning experiences and outcomes? In this between-subject design study, college students were randomly assigned to view a…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Race, Sex, Learning Experience
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Paciarotti, Claudia; Bertozzi, Gabriele; Sillaots, Martin – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Gamification is usually defined as the use of game structure components in circumstances that are not commonly associated with games. In engineering studies, Gamification and its sub-concept of Serious Games are rather widespread pedagogical models. Just like in other application scopes, the approach to their utilisation or analysis is always…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students
Tamara Starling – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Objective: To better understand the current perspectives of Black college and university students in the U.S., it is important to consider the system of injustice they navigate throughout their lifespan characterized by oppression and discrimination. This dissertation examined the impact of racism and discrimination on coping ability, sense of…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Racism, Racial Discrimination
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Xinjie Chen; Amado M. Padilla; Xitao Fan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Using a positive psychological framework, Broaden-and-Build Theory, we investigated whether and how positive and negative emotions (affective factors) and cognitive flexibility are related to flourishing. Participants are 151 bilingual adults from diverse backgrounds enrolled in a local community college. Results showed that both positive and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Psychological Patterns, Community College Students, Cognitive Ability
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Brian J. Birdsell – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2023
It is well documented that exercise plays a critical role in maintaining physical health. More recently, a growing body of research has begun to focus on the mental benefits of exercise ranging from reducing depression to enhancing various cognitive abilities like memory and attention. These abilities are paramount for learning to occur, and thus,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exercise, English (Second Language), College Students
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Marzoli, Irene; Colantonio, Arturo; Fazio, Claudio; Giliberti, Marco; Scotti di Uccio, Umberto; Testa, Italo – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
We surveyed a convenience sample of 362 Italian university physics students, asking them to retrospectively assess their experience of emergency remote instruction due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We looked at their psychological well being, motivation for physics, academic orientation, attitude towards physics and physicists, and tried to link these…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
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Baten, Elke; Desoete, Annemie – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2021
The role of motivation, temperament, personality and well-being as predicting propensity factors for mathematical abilities was investigated in 30 adults. By embedding these predictors in the Opportunity-Propensity framework, this study aimed to reveal their unique contribution in math development, which is important to improve mathematics…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Mathematics Education, Educational Improvement, Accuracy
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Julian, Melissa; Cheadle, Alyssa C. D.; Knudsen, Kendra S.; Bilder, Robert M.; Dunkel Schetter, Christine – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: This paper presents a theory-based brief resilience scale, the Resilience Resources Scale (RRS), and evidence for its factor structure, reliability, and validity in two studies of undergraduate students. Participants: Study 1 sampled 295 students and Study 2 sampled 244 students. Methods: Study 1 participants completed the RRS and other…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Measures (Individuals), Mental Health, Physical Health