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Bridgid Finn; David B. Miele; Allan Wigfield – Grantee Submission, 2024
The "remembered success effect" (Finn, 2010) refers to the finding that challenging academic tasks that start or end with extra opportunities for success are preferred to challenging tasks that do not include these opportunities. Work on remembered success has primarily been done with adults. We assessed (in a preregistered study)…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 3, Grade 6
Kopp, Leia; Hamwi, Lojain; Atance, Cristina M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
Our ability to shift from current to alternative (e.g., past and future) perspectives (i.e., "self-projection") plays a fundamental role in accurate decision-making. We investigated 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds' ability to shift perspective to reason about their future and past preferences. In Experiment 1 (N = 96), children were presented…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preferences, Age Differences, Logical Thinking
Cardon, Peter W.; Christie, Cole J.; Wong, Janna – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2021
Expressing thanks in the workplace involves thoughtfulness and skill. Based on a gratitude journaling exercise over the course of a month by 58 American professionals (Study 1) and a survey of over 1,200 American professionals (Study 2), this research demonstrates the many written and spoken ways in which professionals value receiving thanks in…
Descriptors: Preferences, Speech Communication, Writing (Composition), Psychological Patterns
Seo, Ji-Young – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2022
The present study investigates the preferences of students regarding the principles for the effective design of instructional videos to identify factors that influence engagement. A questionnaire was distributed to 232 students enrolled in online liberal arts classes at a private university in South Korea. Frequency analysis was conducted to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Torff, Bruce; Kimmons, Kathleen – Educational Forum, 2021
Investigating the development of teachers' interactional styles (related to "authoritative teaching"), survey research examined how interactional styles are predicted by teaching experience, age, and educational attainment, as well as gender. Secondary teachers (N = 272) completed an instructional-style scale measuring preferences…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Preferences, Teaching Styles, Interaction
Alkooheji, Lamya; Al-Hattami, Abdulghani – International Education Studies, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine what factors other than individual preferences affect undergraduate students' learning style preferences, if learning style is influenced by gender, age, college affiliation and/or type of activities. A total of 185 students from the University of Bahrain, Bahrain, participated in an online VARK (Visual,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, College Students, Visual Learning
Ok, Min Wook; Rao, Kavita; Pennington, Jon; Ulloa, Paula R. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2022
This exploratory study examined the usage of speech recognition (SR) technology by students with high incidence disabilities in grades 4-8 and student and teacher perceptions of using SR as part of the writing process. The study also examined factors contributing to students' use of SR and barriers to using this technology. Results indicated that…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Auditory Perception, Speech Communication, Students with Disabilities
Sapounidis, Theodosios; Stamovlasis, Dimitrios; Demetriadis, Stavros – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2019
Contribution: Prior studies on tangible versus graphical user interfaces have reported controversial findings concerning children's preferences. This paper shows that their preference profiles in the domain of introductory programming are associated with gender and age for both interfaces. Background: The relevant literature mainly consists of…
Descriptors: Preferences, Profiles, Robotics, Introductory Courses
Huang, Hsin-Mei E. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
The current study examined the effects of grade level and object size on the ability to estimate the measurement of objects. Fifth- (n = 198) and sixth-grade (n = 208) students and freshman undergraduate students (n = 71) from Taipei city, Taiwan, participated in the study. The findings indicated a tendency for measurement estimation ability to…
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, Grade 5, Grade 6, College Freshmen
Ortega, Gerardo; Sümer, Beyza; Özyürek, Asli – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Recent research on signed as well as spoken language shows that the iconic features of the target language might play a role in language development. Here, we ask further whether different types of iconic depictions modulate children's preferences for certain types of sign-referent links during vocabulary development in sign language. Results from…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Sign Language, Preferences, Age Differences
Ismail, Lizah – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2016
Arguably, the dilemma for many small college libraries is delivering face-to-face library instruction to satellite students without having the resources and/or staff to do so. In order to channel energies to where they are needed most, this institution conducted a survey of its satellite students to determine what their library instruction…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Distance Education, Academic Libraries, Student Surveys
Smith, Stephanie; Cunningham-Sabo, Leslie; Auld, Garry – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2015
Purpose/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine middle school students' satisfaction with the school lunch experience, using two validated surveys; the Middle/Junior High School Student Participation Survey and the Middle/Junior High School Student Non-Participation Survey, both developed by the National Food Service Management…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Student Surveys, Middle School Students, Statistical Analysis
Atamian, Rubik; Mansouri, Hossein – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2013
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, throughout their careers, college graduates change multiple jobs and several careers, often remotely related to one another or to their major field of study. Experts project that the majority of newly created jobs requiring college education would involve extensive and prolonged on-the-job training of…
Descriptors: Preferences, Career Choice, Accounting, Age Differences
Smith, Nigel V.; Erlam, Charles; Quirke, Naomi; Sylvester, Grace – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2014
Student engagement is required for effective distance learning. Amongst other things, it is built by fostering connectedness amongst tutors, academic advisors, and students, and by providing high-quality content and materials through appropriate technologies. Students are more likely to succeed when they experience these different aspects as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theological Education, Sense of Community, Distance Education
Lichtenwald, Terrance Gordon – Online Submission, 1986
This study was an investigation of a microcomputer system which was developed to administer, score, analyze, and produce a written report for the Peabody picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R). The variables of reliability, age, gender, level of previous experience with microcomputers, preference for manual or computerized test administration,…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Intelligence Tests, Vocabulary, Test Validity