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Download full textSayed Masood Haidari; Ayhan Koçoglu; Sedat Kanadli – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2023
This meta-analysis examined whether motivation mediated the relationship between self-efficacy, locus of control, and academic achievement. Thirty-seven studies providing correlation estimates for 40 different samples were included in the analysis. The data from these studies were fitted to three models using a two-stage structural equation…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement
Ciftci, S. Koza – Online Submission, 2019
In this study, the effect of mathematics teacher candidates' locus of control on math anxiety was tested, along with the effects of gender, achievement and class level moderators. The study was carried out according to a causal design in which locus of control was taken as an independent variable, while math anxiety was taken as the dependent…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Anxiety, Gender Differences
Yesilyurt, Etem – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
Many studies have focused on finding the level of effect that academic locus of control, tendencies towards academic dishonesty, and test anxiety levels have had on academic self-efficacy, and providing a separate explanation ratio for each. The relationship among the effects of the academic locus of control, tendencies towards academic…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Ethics, Test Anxiety, Predictor Variables
Direct linkMoore, Linden A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In September of 2007, the Michigan Department of Education introduced a program referred to as seat time waivers to a few school districts in Michigan to pilot. During the 2009-2010 school year, 999 students were on seat time waivers with a total of 5070 classes taken by these students. While the number of online learners continues to grow…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Administration, Metacognition, Self Management
De LaGarza, Thomas R.; Manuel, Marcus A.; Wood, J. Luke; Harris, Frank, III – Community College Enterprise, 2016
Few quantitative studies exist on veteran success in postsecondary education, and existing qualitative research has also not accurately identified factors related to veteran achievement or pathways to success in postsecondary education. In this article, the Community College Survey of Men (CCSM) evaluates predictors of student success for…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Veterans, Academic Achievement, Community Colleges
Castro-Villarreal, Felicia; Guerra, Norma; Sass, Daniel; Hseih, Pei-Hsuan – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
Theoretical models were tested using structural equation modeling to evaluate the interrelations among cognitive motivational variables and academic achievement using a sample of 128 predominately Hispanic pre-service teachers enrolled in two undergraduate educational psychology classes. Data were gathered using: (1) a quantitative questionnaire…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Student Motivation, Cognitive Processes
Drugli, May Britt; Klokner, Christian; Larsson, Bo – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2011
The present study explored the association between child internalising and externalising problems in schools and demographic factors (sex and age), school functioning (academic performance and adaptive functioning) and teacher-reported student-teacher relationship quality in a cross-sectional study using structural equation modelling. The study…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences
von Stumm, Sophie; Gale, Catherine R.; Batty, G. David; Deary, Ian J. – Intelligence, 2009
Determinants of intergenerational social mobility were examined in 8287 men from the British Cohort Study 1970. Confirming previous research, parental social class, childhood intelligence, and educational qualifications were the strongest predictors of occupational social class at the age of 30. Locus of control and childhood behaviour disturbance…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Intelligence, Social Class, Social Status
Zhang, Zhicheng; RiCharde, R. Stephen – 1999
The causal structure between academic achievement and cognitive, psychological, and facilitative variables during the freshman year in college was studied. Data from 455 freshmen were used in the analysis. Participants completed measures of student goals, facilitative skills, and learning and thinking styles. Pre-college and freshman achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Causal Models, Cognitive Ability, College Freshmen
