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Lum, Alistair; Wakefield, Claire E.; Donnan, Barb; Burns, Mary A.; Fardell, Joanna E.; Jaffe, Adam; Kasparian, Nadine A.; Kennedy, Sean E.; Leach, Steven T.; Lemberg, Daniel A.; Marshall, Glenn M. – School Psychology, 2019
Students with chronic illness may disengage from school, adversely affecting their school outcomes. Positive education targets students' social-emotional well-being (school well-being), which can increase engagement with school. We compared the relationship among positive educational practices, school well-being, and engagement with school as…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Student School Relationship, Well Being, Learner Engagement
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Phan, Huy P.; Ngu, Bing H. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2016
The formation of self-efficacy, according to Bandura's (1997) social-cognitive theory, is an important area of inquiry. This theoretical tenet posits the importance of enactive learning experience, followed by lesser influences of vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and emotional and physiological states. Quantitative research, predominantly,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Longitudinal Studies, Learning Experience, Academic Ability
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Praskova, Anna; Creed, Peter A.; Hood, Michelle – Journal of Career Development, 2015
We tested a cross-sectional, mediation model of career calling, in which career calling was associated positively with life satisfaction and perceptions of future employability, and these relationships were explained by the self-regulatory mechanisms of work effort, career strategies, and emotional regulation. Using a sample of 664 emerging adults…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Life Satisfaction, Employment Potential, Self Control
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Pullen, Darren – Australian Educational Computing, 2015
The increasing use of information and communication technology (ICT) in schools has been largely explored in relation to how students' use ICT at school. In addition students' lives and experiences with technology beyond school have also begun to be explored. However, the nexus between the two is still an underdeveloped research area. Anecdotally…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Case Studies, Structural Equation Models, Educational Technology
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Martin, Andrew J.; Papworth, Brad; Ginns, Paul; Liem, Gregory Arief D. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
Boarding school has been a feature of education systems for centuries. Minimal large-scale quantitative data have been collected to examine its association with important educational and other outcomes. The present study represents one of the largest studies into boarding school conducted to date. It investigates boarding school and students'…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Well Being
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Ciarrochi, Joseph; Leeson, Peter; Heaven, Patrick C. L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2009
Past research has documented a link between negative problem orientation (NPO) and poor emotional well-being, but little of this research has focused on adolescence or has collected multiple waves of data. The authors conducted a 3-wave longitudinal survey of 841 adolescents in Grades 8, 9, and 10 (428 boys, 411 girls, 2 unidentified). The survey…
Descriptors: Identification, Adolescents, Grade 8, Grade 9
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McKenzie, Kirsten; Gow, Kathryn – Learning & Individual Differences, 2004
One of the most noticeable changes to the university student profile over the last decade is the increasing number of mature-age students. This study examined the relationship between previous academic performance, psychological characteristics of the student, learning strategies, and the first year academic performance of school leavers and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Structural Equation Models, College Freshmen, Learning Strategies
Mann, Bruce, Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2006
"Selected Styles in Web-Based Educational Research" is concerned with the most common research styles in Web-based teaching or learning. It is intended for practitioners, educators and students, who wish to learn how to conduct research in online teaching and learning, and helps define style in educational research methodology. To…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Feedback (Response), Language Usage, Educational Research