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Krou, Megan R.; Fong, Carlton J.; Hoff, Meagan A. – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
Academic dishonesty is a rampant and troubling phenomenon in the educational sector. Although demographic factors have been linked with students' academic dishonesty in the literature, many of these aspects are difficult to change. However, students' motivation, a known malleable factor, may allow for opportunities to shape students' beliefs,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Student Behavior, Student Motivation, Achievement Need
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Mouronte-López, Mary Luz; García, Arturo; Bautista, Susana; Cortés, Carmen – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2021
This paper studies the impact of gender on the interest in engineering and technical subjects of the students in the first courses of secondary education. A statistical analysis was carried out, analyzing the use of a free virtual-reality application, developed by the 3M Foundation, which aims to bring these subjects to the students.…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, Engineering Education, Technology Education
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Durnali, Mehmet; Orakçi, Senol; Toraman, Çetin – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
About four million people living in Turkey or abroad with a Turkish passport enrolled in distance education schools to have the opportunity to complete their compulsory formal education in the spring of 2018-19. The aim of this descriptive study was to determine distance education students' acceptance of online learning systems, their attitudes…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Student Attitudes, Difficulty Level
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Tracey, Danielle; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Pekrun, Reinhard; Arens, A. Katrin; Murayama, Kou; Lichtenfeld, Stephanie; Frenzel, Anne C.; Goetz, Thomas; Maïano, Christophe – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Expectancy-value theory (EVT) is a popular framework to understand and improve students' motivation. Unfortunately, limited research has verified whether EVT predictions generalize to students with low levels of cognitive ability. This study relies on Grade 5 and 8 data from 177 students with low levels of cognitive ability and a matched sample of…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Cognitive Ability, Grades (Scholastic), Self Control
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Liou, Pey-Yan; Lin, Yao-Mei; Huang, Ssu-Ching; Chen, Sufen – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
This study investigated gender disparities in students' science motivational beliefs, conceptualized as self-concept and intrinsic value, from Grades 4 to 8 in 22 countries. The gender-specific relation between science motivational beliefs and achievement was also scrutinized. Data from the 2011 and 2015 national cohorts of the Trends in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Martin, Hector; Craigwell, Renaldo; Ramjarrie, Karrisa – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
The influence of grit on engineering student's achievement has been understudied. The association between grit, self-regulated learning (SRL), and academic achievement in civil engineering students was investigated using correlation and regression analysis. One hundred and one civil engineering students from various nationalities completed a…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Correlation, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
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Liou, Pey-Yan; Wang, Cheng-Lung; Lin, John J. H.; Areepattamannil, Shaljan – Journal of Experimental Education, 2021
This study investigated whether students' motivational beliefs about learning science (i.e., self-concept in science and intrinsic value of science) varied significantly across grade levels and genders. The study also examined the relations between students' motivational beliefs about learning science and their science achievement by grade level…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Beliefs, Student Attitudes, Science Instruction
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Teppo, Moonika; Soobard, Regina; Rannikmäe, Miia – Education Sciences, 2021
Research findings indicate a decline in students' motivation towards science learning through grade levels. However, there is a lack of studies investigating students' motivation comparing learning between science subjects and at different school levels. Using self-determination theory as a framework, this study compares perceived changes in…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Value Judgment
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Capuno, Reylan; Necesario, Renante; Etcuban, Jonathan Olores; Espina, Raymond; Padillo, Gengen; Manguilimotan, Ramil – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2019
Mathematics as a discipline is considered as one of the most difficult subjects among Filipino learners. This study was conducted in a public national high school in the Mandaue City Division, Cebu, Philippines. The respondents were the 177 Grade 9 students enrolled in mathematics. These respondents were selected using probability random sampling.…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Achievement, Study Habits
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Tossavainen, Timo; Juvonen, Antti – Research Studies in Music Education, 2015
Based on an expectancy-value theoretical framework and data (n = 1654) collected in 29 Finnish municipalities using a structured questionnaire, this study examines primary (grades 5-6), lower secondary (grades 7-9) and upper secondary (grades 10-12) students' motivation in music and mathematics. It explores in detail the students' interest in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Student Interests