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Ruthig, Joelle C.; Kroke, Abigail M.; Holfeld, Brett – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
Students typically overestimate how well they will perform on future academic events, then lower those expectations as the event and performance feedback approach. According to control theories, individuals also shift from primary control strategies to secondary control strategies when the opportunity to exert direct influence over a performance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Feedback (Response), Congruence (Psychology), Student Attitudes
Karacabey, Mehmet Fatih; Bozkus, Kivanc – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of psychological factors on Syrian refugees' participation in lifelong education. The ex post facto co-relational causal design was employed in this research. A questionnaire form consisted of four scales was used to collect data from 297 refugees participated in lifelong education. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Refugees, Lifelong Learning
Sheelagh Semper – International Journal of Online Graduate Education, 2020
Over the past decade, the researcher has completed two university degrees from accredited Canadian universities through online distance education (ODE) offerings. Research suggests that these experiences and subsequent acquisition of university degrees through ODE are not the norms (Clay et al., 2009; Hart 2012; Lee & Choi, 2010). The…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Adult Students, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
Šafranj, Jelisaveta – Research in Pedagogy, 2019
Locus of control and academic self-efficacy are significant variables in foreign language learning that influence advancement in language acquisition and cognition, as well as building language skills. Previous research in the field of foreign language teaching has been partly related to cognitive and meta-cognitive learning strategies of gifted…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Efficacy, Locus of Control, Second Language Learning
Hathaway, Karen L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study sought to determine whether frequent goal setting could increase the use of self-regulated learning strategies in at-risk college students. The students' locus of control, task value for their course, and self-efficacy were also examined in an effort to determine whether frequent goal setting would have an impact on those variables. The…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Self Management, Learning Strategies, At Risk Students
Alzubi, Ali Abbas Falah; Singh, Manjet Kaur Mehar; Pandian, Ambigapathy – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This paper explores the current practices of learner autonomy among Saudi undergraduates at Preparatory Year, Najran University. The Short List questionnaire developed by Dixon (2011) was administered to measure the use of autonomous learning in English as a foreign language (EFL) context. Quantitative data were gathered from 208 male students in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
Sunawan; Xiong, Junmei – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2017
The present study tested the influence of control belief, learning disorientation, and academic emotions on cognitive load in two types of concept-map structures within hypermedia learning environment. Four hundred and eighty-five students were randomly assigned to two groups: 245 students in the hierarchical group and 240 students in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Beliefs, Psychological Patterns
Aksoy-Pekacar, Kadriye; Kanat-Mutluoglu, Arzu; Erten, Ismail Hakki – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
As part of the research on motivation, causal attribution studies have an important role in predicting and improving academic performance since controllable and uncontrollable attributions have an effect on learners' future actions. Following this path, the present qualitative study investigates the attributions of students in an English Language…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Shyness
Muljana, Pauline Salim; Luo, Tian – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2019
Aim/Purpose: This systematic literature review investigates the underlying factors that influence the gap between the popularity of online learning and its completion rate. The review scope within this paper includes an observation of possible causal aspects within the non-ideal completion rates in online learning environments and an…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
Marshall, Jason E.; Fayombo, Grace; Marshall, Rasheda – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
There is a growing concern among educators and university administrators that the high cost of tuition fees has encouraged tertiary level students to adopt a "consumerist view" of tertiary education, where education is seen as a service-for-payment. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this belief may cause lecturers to compromise the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Higher Education, Consumer Economics, Incidence
Boyer, Stefanie L.; Edmondson, Diane R.; Artis, Andrew B.; Fleming, David – Journal of Marketing Education, 2014
A meta-analytic review of self-directed learning (SDL) research over 30 years, five countries, and across multiple academic disciplines is used to explore its relationships with five key nomologically related constructs for effective workplace learning. The meta-analysis revealed positive relationships between SDL and internal locus of control,…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Learning Processes, Student Motivation, Marketing
Akça, Figen – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
The present research aims to investigate the relationship between the learning strategies, learning styles, the locus of control and the academic success of prospective teachers. The study group consists of 198 university students in various departments at the Uludag University Faculty of Education. Research data were collected with the Locus of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Success, Preschool Teachers
de la Fuente, Jesús; López, Mireia; Zapata, Lucía; Martínez-Vicente, Jose Manuel; Vera, Manuel Mariano; Solinas, Giulliana; Fadda, Salvatore – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2014
There has been growing research interest in achievement emotions in university teaching-learning processes in recent years. While their importance has been firmly established, there continues to be a need for assessment and intervention models. The objective of this report is to present the "Competency Model for Studying, Learning and…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Coping
Knowles, Evelyn; Kerkman, Dennis – InSight: A Collection of Faculty Scholarship, 2007
This study investigated students' attitudes and motivations toward online learning. Students in the online course, Introduction to the Visual Arts, were asked to complete questionnaires administered during the first and last week of the online course. A group of questions on Attitude was asked on both surveys. Questions on Interest,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Locus of Control, Visual Arts, Online Courses