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Tan, Leonard; Miksza, Peter – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2018
The purpose of the study was to investigate how university band students' (non--music majors) motivational goal orientations toward band and academics differ across participants from Singapore (n = 200) and the United States (n = 227) and examine how they relate to a suite of adaptive dispositions (i.e., flow, grit, and commitment) relevant for…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Goal Orientation, Questionnaires, Mastery Learning
Collaço, Christine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The primary purpose of this study was to collect evidence on the construct validity of grit using convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity principles. To accomplish this purpose and extend previous research on grit, college students from two schools completed an instrument comprised of a cognitive ability test, and a questionnaire. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Persistence, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity
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Colvin-Sterling, Sabrina – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2016
This study examined the relationship between middle school students' personality type and their academic performance in the technology courses in which they participated. It also explored the differences in technology use by personality. Most participants identified games as a favorite pas-time. However, there were some noted temperamental…
Descriptors: Correlation, Personality, Middle School Students, Technology Uses in Education
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Collings, Ashleigh; O'Connor, Erin; McClowry, Sandee – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
Previous research finds that children experience a range of school readiness challenges (e.g., Chartier, Walker, & Naimark, 2010; Zill, 1999). Such challenges vary by children's gender, temperament, and participation in school-based interventions (e.g., Mullola et al., 2011; Bramlett, Scott, Rowell, 2000). However, the examination of child…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intervention, Role, Gender Differences
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Dennis, Matt; Masthoff, Judith; Mellish, Chris – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2016
As feedback is an important part of learning and motivation, we investigate how to adapt the feedback of a conversational agent to learner personality (as well as to learner performance, as we expect an interaction effect between personality and performance on feedback). We investigate two aspects of feedback. Firstly, we investigate whether the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Literary Styles
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Speirs Neumeister, Kristie L.; Fletcher, Kathryn L.; Burney, Virginia H. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2015
This study examined the relationship among subtypes of perfectionism and achievement goal orientations within the context of Gaudreau and Thompson's quadripartite framework. The authors first sought to replicate Campbell and Di Paula's factor analysis to identify subtypes of self-oriented perfectionism (SOP) and socially prescribed perfectionism…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation
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Jones, Martin H.; McMichael, Stephanie N. – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Previous work examines the relationships between personality traits and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. We replicate and extend previous work to examine how personality may relate to achievement goals, efficacious beliefs, and mindset about intelligence. Approximately 200 undergraduates responded to the survey with a 150 participants replicating…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Personality Traits, Learning Motivation, Replication (Evaluation)
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Liew, Tze Wei; Tan, Su-Mae; Seydali, Rouzbeh – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2014
The present study examined the relationship among learners' differences, behaviors in manipulating variables, and learning achievements in a simulation-based program that supports discovery learning in the subject of C-programming algorithm. Participants (n = 66) took the Group Embedded Figures Test, Action Control Scale, and Computer…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Individual Differences, Self Efficacy, Student Behavior
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Mascareño, Mayra; Doolaard, Simone; Bosker, Roel J. – Early Education and Development, 2014
A successful transition from kindergarten to 1st grade requires a positive combination of multiple dimensions of child competence. Using latent class analysis, we simultaneously examined the academic skills, work attitude, and social/behavioral competence of a large sample of Dutch kindergarten children to identify profiles of kindergarten…
Descriptors: Child Development, Kindergarten, Profiles, Prediction
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Smetana, Judith G.; Ahmad, Ikhlas; Wray-Lake, Laura – Developmental Psychology, 2016
We examined within- and between-person variations in parental legitimacy beliefs in a sample of 883 Arab refugee youth (M[subscript age] = 15.01 years, SD = 1.60), 277 Iraqis, 275 Syrians, and 331 Palestinians, in Amman, Jordan. Latent profile analyses of 22 belief items yielded 4 profiles of youth. The "normative" profile (67% of the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Arabs, Parenting Styles, Beliefs
Lopata, Joel A.; Nowicki, Elizabeth A. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
In this study, researchers gathered Canadian pre-service teachers' beliefs on the antecedents to bullying. Concept mapping (Kane & Trochim, 2007) was used to analyze the data. This study's findings identified pre-service teachers to have accurate beliefs, inaccurate beliefs, and a lack of knowledge about the antecedents to bullying. Concept…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Bullying
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Sutantoputri, Novita W.; Watt, Helen M. G. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
The study explores the possibilities of gender, ethnicity, and religion differences on attributions (locus of control, stability, personal and external control), motivational goals (learning, performance approach, performance avoidance, and work avoidance), self-efficacy, intelligence beliefs, religiosity, racial/ethnic identity, and academic…
Descriptors: College Students, State Universities, Private Colleges, Gender Differences
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Imhof, Margarete; Spaeth-Hilbert, Tatjana – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Based on a cognitive motivational process model of learning, the impact of studying behavior on learning outcome is investigated. First-year students (N = 488) participated in the study. Two research questions were addressed: (1) Can cognitive-motivational variables and objective study behavior predict individual learning? (2) Which factors drive…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Role, Self Concept, At Risk Students
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Mowder, Melissa H.; Cummings, Jack A.; McKinney, Robert – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2010
An exploratory study of resiliency profiles of male and female juvenile offenders committed to a juvenile correctional facility was conducted. The goal of the present study was to examine juvenile offenders' positive characteristics (e.g., adaptability, optimism, self-efficacy, tolerance of differences). To assess positive characteristics and…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Self Efficacy, Risk, Credits
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Maatta, Sami; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Stattin, Hakan – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2007
This study set out to identify the kinds of achievement orientations that adolescents show, and to examine the kinds of antecedents and consequences the use of a particular orientation has. The participants were 734 Swedish adolescents (335 boys and 399 girls) who filled in questionnaires measuring their achievement beliefs and behaviors,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Swedish, Questionnaires, Multivariate Analysis
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