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Guerrero, Tricia A.; Griffin, Thomas D.; Wiley, Jennifer – Grantee Submission, 2020
The Predict-Observe-Explain (POE) learning cycle improves understanding of the connection between empirical results and theoretical concepts when students engage in hands-on experimentation. This study explored whether training students to use a POE strategy when learning from social science texts that describe theories and experimental results…
Descriptors: Prediction, Observation, Reading Comprehension, Correlation
Bembenutty, Hefer – Online Submission, 2006
The present study examined whether the association between teachers' self-efficacy beliefs and academic performance is mediated by their homework's self-efficacy beliefs and use of self-regulatory learning strategies. Path analyses were conducted. The final model revealed that teachers' self-efficacy beliefs have an indirect effect on their…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Homework, Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy
Bembenutty, Hefer – Online Submission, 2006
The present study examined the associations between preservice teachers' help seeking tendencies, homework beliefs and behavior, and their individual characteristics such as academic delay of gratification, self-esteem, and self-handicap behavior (N = 63). The results indicated that preservice teachers who have a positive attitude toward help…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Self Efficacy, Preservice Teachers, Help Seeking
Worthington, Everett L., Jr.; Hammonds, T. Michael – 1982
The assumption that therapeutic or homework directives enhance therapy has received little research attention. To explore compliance with homework directives in a behavioral self-control treatment of weight loss, the comparative importance of social support (S), support plus directives with no rationale (SD), support plus directives with rationale…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Change Strategies, College Students, Contracts
Warton, Pamela M. – 1993
This study investigated children's practices and ideas or perceptions about self-regulation for two particular aspects of schoolwork: completing homework and learning for a class test. Subjects were 86 Anglo children (ages 7, 9, and 11) who were interviewed about their practices and ideas concerning homework completion and test preparation.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Educational Testing, Elementary Education
Bembenutty, Hefer – Online Submission, 2005
This study examined the predictive association between gender, ethnicity, and homework parental involvement, self-regulated learning processes, and motivational beliefs among 10th grade high school students. It was predicted that students' motivational beliefs and self-regulatory processes would be significant predictors of students' math academic…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Standardized Tests