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Kearns, Hugh; Forbes, Angus; Gardiner, Maria; Marshall, Kelly – Australian Educational Researcher, 2008
This paper addresses two problems which are common amongst university students, namely perfectionism and self-handicapping. Perfectionism deals with setting unreasonably high standards for one's own performance, while self-handicapping behaviours provide a possible excuse for poor performance, for example putting tasks off until the last minute.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
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Seidel, Tina; Shavelson, Richard J. – Review of Educational Research, 2007
This meta-analysis summarizes teaching effectiveness studies of the past decade and investigates the role of theory and research design in disentangling results. Compared to past analyses based on the process-product model, a framework based on cognitive models of teaching and learning proved useful in analyzing studies and accounting for…
Descriptors: Research Design, Theory Practice Relationship, Research Methodology, Effect Size