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Zhang, Weizhe; Williams, Sophie J.; Wang, Ximin; Chen, Jin – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2017
Nature experiences are essential for fostering pro-environmental behavior. In this study, a wildlife observation toolbox was provided to students to encourage participation in nature observation clubs. A total of 340 adolescents joined the clubs. We identified the determinants of participation intentions with a mixed approach combing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Wildlife, Youth Clubs
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Wang, Zhe; Adesope, Olusola – International Journal of Instruction, 2016
Previous work on seductive details has demonstrated that interesting but irrelevant messages hinder students' text learning. Considering that there is little evidence suggesting the relationship between seductive details and prior knowledge, the present study examined how seductive details affect learning in terms of prior knowledge to address the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Middle School Students, Knowledge Level, Recall (Psychology)
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Wu, Xiaoli; Lowyck, Joost; Sercu, Lies; Elen, Jan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: The study deepened our understanding of how students' self-ef?cacy beliefs contribute to the context of teaching English as a foreign language in the framework of cognitive mediational paradigm at a ?ne-tuned task-speci?c level. Aim: The aim was to examine the relationship among task complexity, self-ef?cacy beliefs, domain-related…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development