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Learning the Hard Way: Need for Cognition Influences Attitudes toward and Self-Reported Use of Desirable Difficulties
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Weissgerber, Sophia C.; Reinhard, Marc-André; Schindler, Simon – Educational Psychology, 2018
We investigate the relationship between Need for Cognition (NFC), attitude towards and self-reported application of different desirable difficulties in self-regulated learning. Students with a higher NFC should be more appreciative and prone to use desirable difficulties because of a match between the learner's attributes and the learning task…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Factor Structure, Correlation, Metacognition
Refining Questionnaire-Based Assessment of STEM Students' Learning Strategies
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Griese, Birgit; Lehmann, Malte; Roesken-Winter, Bettina – International Journal of STEM Education, 2015
Background: Learning strategies are considered a key aspect for academic performance not only for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students. Refining their assessment thus constitutes a worthwhile research purpose. The aim of this study is to examine the 69-item LIST questionnaire ("ZDDP" 15:185-200, 1994) with the…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Format, Student Evaluation, STEM Education
Development of the Oldenburg Epistemic Beliefs Questionnaire (OLEQ), a German Questionnaire Based on the Epistemic Belief Inventory (EBI)
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Paechter, Manuela; Rebmann, Karin; Schloemer, Tobias; Mokwinski, Bjoern; Hanekamp, Yvonne; Arendasy, Martin – Current Issues in Education, 2013
The present research describes the development of a German questionnaire for measurement of domain-general epistemic beliefs. Pre-studies on the psychometric properties of a German version of the Epistemic Beliefs Inventory (EBI) had emphasized the necessity to develop an instrument that is especially constructed for German-speaking samples. The…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Learning Strategies, Questionnaires, Psychometrics
Do They Feel the Same Way about Math? Testing Measurement Invariance of the PISA "Students' Approaches to Learning" Instrument across Immigrant Groups within Germany
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Segeritz, Micha; Pant, Hans Anand – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2013
This article summarizes the key finding of a study that (a) tests the measurement invariance (MI) of the popular Students' Approaches to Learning instrument (Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA]) across ethnic/cultural groups within a country and (b) discusses implications for research focusing on the role of affective measures in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affective Measures, Immigrants, Ethnic Groups