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Download full textXin Tang; I-Chien Chen; Jari Lavonen; Barbara Schneider; Joseph Krajcik; Katariina Salmela-Aro – Frontline Learning Research, 2025
Engagement can be situative and, when it occurs, a number of experiences will co-occur. The present study examined the co-occurred experiences of optimal learning moments (OLM), a type of situated engagement, using the novel network analysis and including data from two countries: Finland and the US. Both samples were from high schools and were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Learning Processes, Situated Learning
Telbis, Miky – Online Submission, 2010
A dropout rate can be used to determine student's ability to fulfill their perspective program of study, as well as the college's ability to qualify the right students for the completion of their academic degree. College advertisement can also play a significant role when it comes to dropout rates as it can be viewed as ineffective if the learners…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Academic Degrees
Overton, Sara R.; And Others – 1986
The study examined how the coping behaviors and achievement motivation of 181 athletes (aged 18-66) with cerebral palsy or other physical disabilities influence participation in the normalized activity of competitive sport. The project examined the following cognitive aspects of performance: (1) reasons for becoming involved in sports; (2) how the…
Descriptors: Adults, Athletes, Athletics, Attitudes
Froelich, Rick L. – 1996
When faced with personal success, some persons appear to become anxious and will do something to avoid or sabotage their efforts. This fear of success among university students was investigated in this study. The sampling included 210 students, 83 males and 127 females. The independent variables under consideration were locus of control, gender,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Fear of Success, Females
Vispoel, Walter P.; Austin, James R. – 1991
This study was conducted to compare causal attributions for success and failure response across four school subject areas (English, Mathematics, General Music, and Physical Education) using a "critical incident" methodology. Students (N=205) from a midwestern junior high school completed a questionnaire in which they identified important…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Attribution Theory, English
Peer reviewedConnell, James P. – Child Development, 1985
Describes a new 48-item self-report instrument, the Multidimensional Measure of Children's Perceptions of Control, which defines children's perceptions of control as understanding the locus of sufficient cause for success and failure. Three dimensions of third- through ninth-grade children's perceptions of control are assessed within three…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
