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Training Self-Assessment and Task-Selection Skills: A Cognitive Approach to Improving Self-Regulated Learning
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Kostons, Danny; van Gog, Tamara; Paas, Fred – Learning and Instruction, 2012
For self-regulated learning to be effective, students need to be able to accurately assess their own performance on a learning task and use this assessment for the selection of a new learning task. Evidence suggests, however, that students have difficulties with accurate self-assessment and task selection, which may explain the poor learning…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Management
Academic Delay of Gratification and Children's Study Time Allocation as a Function of Proximity to Consequential Academic Goals
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Zhang, Lili; Karabenick, Stuart A.; Maruno, Shun'ichi; Lauermann, Fani – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Students (N=302) in Chinese elementary schools were assessed regarding their academic delay of gratification (ADOG) and reported the time they devoted to non-school study and playtime during an extended interval prior to taking a high-stakes final exam. Students high compared those low in ADOG were more likely to spend time studying and less time…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Time Management, Learning Strategies, Student Motivation
Time Students Spend Working at Home for School
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Wagner, Petra; Schober, Barbara; Spiel, Christiane – Learning and Instruction, 2008
The paper presents three studies which deal with the time students spend working at home for school. In addition, the paper focuses on the distribution of time investment over the course of a week and on the relationship between academic achievement and time spent working at home for school. In sum, 824 students with an average age of 15 years…
Descriptors: Age, Academic Achievement, Diaries, Homework
Optimistic, Defensive-Pessimistic, Impulsive and Self-Handicapping Strategies in University Environments.
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Eronen, Sanna; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Salmela-Aro, Katariina – Learning and Instruction, 1998
A person-oriented approach was used to study the types of achievement strategy students apply in university environments and how these are associated with academic achievement, related satisfaction, and personal well-being. Results with 254 undergraduates over 2 years found academic achievement associated with 4 types of achievement strategy, each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Satisfaction
The Development of Achievement Strategies and Academic Skills during the First Year of Primary School.
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Onatsu-Arvilommi, Tiina; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Aunola, Kaisa – Learning and Instruction, 2002
Studied whether children's achievement strategies predict the development of their reading and mathematics skills during the first school year or whether these skills predict changes in their achievement strategies. Findings for 105 Finnish first graders show that maladaptive strategies hamper improvement in reading and mathematics; skills did not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Reading, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Teaching Collaborative Skills to Primary School Children in Classroom-Based Work Groups.
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Gillies, Robyn M; Ashman, Adrian F. – Learning and Instruction, 1996
Sixth graders (n=192) participated in a study that compared the effects on behavior and achievement of cooperative learning with group members trained to facilitate each other's learning and cooperative learning in which members did not receive such training. Training resulted in positive effects on achievement and behavior. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Students