Background: It is often claimed that psychology students' attitudes towards research methods and statistics affect course enrolment, persistence, achievement, and course climate. However, the inter-institutional variability has been widely neglected in the research on students' attitudes towards research methods and statistics, but it is important…

This study investigated the differences between elementary school pupils' and teachers' perceptions of the actual classroom environment and of discrepancies between preferred and actual environment. Teachers and students preferred more favorable classroom environment than was perceived as being present, and teachers perceived the actual classroom…

The absence of theories of boredom is argued to be a gap both in psychology and education. A model of boredom is put forward as a basis for specifying predisposing factors and possible consequences. (Editor)

Attitudes towards mathematics of over 300 first-year sixth-form (secondary) students were studied in relation to the type of mathematics curriculum previously followed by them, to their choice of sixth-form courses and the students' intelligence, personality and mathematical achievement. Examines students' preferences for different modes of…

Results showed that student achievement is likely to be greater in classrooms in which there is similarity between the actual environment and that preferred by students. (Author/RM)

Background: Two main approaches to studying have been distinguished by several researchers, the deep approach and the surface approach. In addition, an achieving or strategic approach employs either deep or surface strategies, depending on the demands of the task. Aims: The present study investigated factors contributing to the choice of…