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Thuen, Elin; Bru, Edvin – School Psychology International, 2000
Explores how learning environment dimensions are related to on-task-orientation, and how these relations are mediated by students' perceptions of the meaningfulness of schoolwork. For school psychologists, results seem to imply an increased focus on the learning environment, and particularly on the importance of the social emotional dimensions for…
Descriptors: Assignments, Educational Environment, Emotional Response, Foreign Countries
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Billings, Diane M. – American Journal of Distance Education, 1988
Describes conceptual model that helps explain why students drop out of correspondence courses. Student background characteristics, organizational setting and the environment, attitudes about education, and course instruction are linked with behavioral intent and lesson submission activity to determine variables that influence completion of…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Assignments, Correspondence Study, Dropout Research