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Philippe, Frederick L.; Gingras, Marie-Pier; Ghassemi-Bakhtiari, Nessa; Poulin, François; Robitaille, Jean; Denault, Anne-Sophie; Dandeneau, Stéphane; Geoffroy, Marie-Claude – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
Unlike organized activities such as sports and arts, civic activities in adolescence (e.g., volunteering, student government) have been less studied in relation to school success and almost all existing evidence consists of cross-sectional findings. In a longitudinal study, 1035 pupils (64% females, 20% nonwhite, M[subscript age] = 14.21 years)…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, High School Students
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Çetin, Baris – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2022
This study aims to determine whether university students' levels of online self-regulated learning, online technologies self-efficacy, and motivated strategies for learning predict their general academic achievement and online academic achievement. In this study, the scanning design and the prediction research design were used. The participants of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Independent Study, Electronic Learning
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Çetin, Baris – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2021
This study aimed to determine the effects of university students' gender, weekly study hours, academic motivation, metacognition, and self-regulated learning levels on their overall academic achievement and to examine whether academic motivation, metacognition and self-regulated learning total scores predicted their GPAs. This study utilized a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
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Lou, Nigel Mantou; Noels, Kimberly A. – Modern Language Journal, 2020
Growth language mindsets (i.e., beliefs that language ability can be improved) are found to sustain learners' motivation and resilience in challenging situations. Considering that migrants who are speakers of languages other than the dominant ones often face challenging daily communications, we examined important but understudied questions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes
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Duchesne, Stéphane; Ratelle, Catherine F. – Educational Psychology, 2020
This 2-year prospective study aimed to examine the predictive role of students' achievement goals (mastery-approach and performance-avoidance) on socioemotional adjustment in high school by assessing the potential mediating contribution of academic motivations. A total of 407 high school students (46% boys) were surveyed each year in Secondary 2…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Emotional Adjustment, Social Adjustment
Parkin, Michael; And Others – 1987
Canadian research relevant to French immersion program development in Ontario is reviewed and summarized. The review includes studies on six program or instructional aspects: (1) attitudes and motivation of immersion students and parents; (2) achievement of immersion students in English language arts and other subjects; (3) French proficiency and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness