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Robinson, Kristy A.; Lira, Amalia Krystal; Walton, S. Patrick; Briedis, Daina; Linnenbrink-Garcia, Lisa – AERA Open, 2022
Students, instructors, and policy makers are in need of research-based recommendations for supporting students' motivation to pursue STEM fields. The present study addressed this need by examining relations between perceived motivational supports, year-long trajectories of expectancy for success and three task values, and grades among students (N…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Motivation, Introductory Courses, Engineering Education
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Shine, Danielle; Stefanou, Candice – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Faculty at postsecondary institutions are working with students with disabilities at a higher rate in the last two decades than ever before due to an increase in students with disabilities pursuing and entering higher education. The American with Disabilities Act Title II requires faculty and universities to provide accommodations to students with…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, College Students
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Lisa B. Limeri – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Mindset (beliefs about the malleability of intelligence) has been studied in a variety of contexts for decades. Recent research highlights the importance of contextual factors in moderating mindset's impact on student outcomes. The commonly-used original mindset measure is context-general. Recently, a mindset measure that is specific to science…
Descriptors: Science Education, Mathematics Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Huang, Xiaoxia; Mathews, Justin L.; Hsiao, E-Ling – Journal of Educators Online, 2022
The central research question of this empirical study was: How do student demographics, math self-efficacy, and math anxiety relate to and predict their choice of pedagogical agents serving as virtual math tutors? A total of 152 middle school students and 135 college students were surveyed on their perceived math self-efficacy, math anxiety, and…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, College Students
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Xiaohui Zhang; Hyun-Ju Kim – English Teaching, 2024
This study investigated the relationship between teacher support in the areas of learner autonomy, relatedness, and competence, and motivational beliefs regarding achievement goal orientations and perceived task value in Chinese EFL college classrooms based on self-determination theory. A questionnaire was administered to 712 college students, and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes
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Hilpert, Jonathan C.; Bernacki, Matthew L.; Cogliano, MeganClaire – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2022
The COVID-19 disruption presented considerable challenges for university students, requiring the sudden need for increased engagement in remote learning environments and the ability to cope with academic and familial demands. To examine how students self-regulated their learning during the disruption, we surveyed undergraduates (n = 226) enrolled…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Self Management, Student Motivation
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Shi, Hong – World Journal of Education, 2022
This study examined language learning strategy and goal orientation of college-level English Language Learners (ELLs) by using a questionnaire survey. It analyzed the relationship between goal orientation and demographic characteristics and further explored the correlation between learning strategy use and goal orientation. The results of the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning, Teaching Methods
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Barnes, Nicole; Fives, Helenrose; Matthews, Jamaal Sharif; SaizdeLaMora, Kit Marie – Teacher Educator, 2018
We examined 179 teachers' perceptions of their own classroom practices and their school's motivational climate to illuminate the ways these perceptions work in concert. Using teachers' responses to two scales of the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Survey, a cluster analysis revealed three profiles of teachers described as cluster 1:" Aligned:…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Micari, Marina; Pazos, Pilar – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
This study examined the relationships among peer alignment (the feeling that one is similar in important ways to one's engineering peers), instructor connectedness (the sense that one knows and looks up to academic staff/faculty members in the department), self-efficacy for engineering class work (confidence in one's ability to successfully…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Engineering Education, Peer Relationship, Undergraduate Students
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Becker, Sandra; Palladino, John – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2016
This study presents a unique assessment of faculty perspectives about teaching and working with students with disabilities against the backdrop of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). A randomized sample of 127 faculty from a large Midwest comprehensive university completed the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
Shi, Hong – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine self-efficacy beliefs, learning strategy, and goal orientation of college-level English Language Learners (ELLs) enrolled in English as a Second Language (ESL) program. This study was conducted to further analyze the relationships among self-efficacy beliefs, learning strategies, and goal orientations of…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Beliefs
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Daniels, Lia M.; Poth, Cheryl A. – Educational Psychology, 2017
The purpose of this paper was to examine the relationships between pre-service teachers' conceptions of assessment and their intended approaches to classroom instruction and assessment. We operationalised approaches to instruction and assessment according to Achievement Goal Theory, postulating that pre-service teachers approach instruction and…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Correlation
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Jang, Eunice Eunhee; Lajoie, Susanne P.; Wagner, Maryam; Xu, Zhenhua; Poitras, Eric; Naismith, Laura – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2017
Technology-rich learning environments (TREs) provide opportunities for learners to engage in complex interactions involving a multitude of cognitive, metacognitive, and affective states. Understanding learners' distinct learning progressions in TREs demand inquiry approaches that employ well-conceived theoretical accounts of these multiple facets.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Simulation, Patients
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Jones, Martin H.; McMichael, Stephanie N. – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Previous work examines the relationships between personality traits and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. We replicate and extend previous work to examine how personality may relate to achievement goals, efficacious beliefs, and mindset about intelligence. Approximately 200 undergraduates responded to the survey with a 150 participants replicating…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Personality Traits, Learning Motivation, Replication (Evaluation)
Bembenutty, Hefer – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine whether teacher candidates with mastery- and performance-approach orientations would perceived their education courses as depicting a goal structure consistent with their personal orientations, use of self-regulatory strategies, and motivation for learning. A latent class analysis procedure was used to…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Preservice Teacher Education