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Giofre, David; Mammarella, Irene C.; Ronconi, Lucia; Cornoldi, Cesare – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
A study was conducted on the involvement of visuospatial working memory (VSWM) in intuitive geometry and in school performance in geometry at secondary school. A total of 166 pupils were administered: (1) six VSWM tasks, comprising simple storage and complex span tasks; and (2) the intuitive geometry task devised by Dehaene, Izard, Pica, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Geometry, Path Analysis, Short Term Memory
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Gonida, Eleftheria N.; Voulala, Katerina; Kiosseoglou, Grigoris – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
The role of perceived school goal structures and parent goals in predicting adolescents' goal orientations and their behavioral and emotional engagement in the classroom was examined in the present study. Surveys were given to a sample of 271 seventh- and ninth-grade students. Path analyses showed that (a) perceived school mastery goal structures…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Parents, Academic Achievement, Grade 7
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Ferla, Johan; Valcke, Martin; Schuyten, Gilberte – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
Using Vermunt's model [Vermunt, J. D. (1998). "The regulation of constructive learning processes". "British Journal of Educational Psychology", 68, 149-171] of self-regulated learning as a conceptual framework, this study aims to contribute to the development of finer grained models of higher education students' learning by (1) investigating…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Efficacy, Educational Psychology, Academic Achievement