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Yun Tang; Zhengfan Li; Guoyi Wang; Xiangen Hu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
To better understand the self-regulated learning process in online learning environments, this research applied a data mining method, the two-layer hidden Markov model (TL-HMM), to explore the patterns of learning activities. We analyzed 25,818 entries of behavior log data from an intelligent tutoring system. Results indicated that students with…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Activities, Self Management, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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McMahan, Ian D. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1973
A model of achievement behavior incorporates the findings that attributions to ability and task were associated with high expectancies following success and low expectancies following failure, and that attributions to effort and luck were associated with low expectancies following success and high expectancies following failure. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Expectation, Failure
Newman, Ian M. – J Sch Health, 1970
Results indicated that both male and female smokers perceived themselves as failing to meet the expectations of their parents and school. On the other hand, nonsmokers perceived themselves as more nearly meeting these expectations. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Failure
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Bruehl, Dieter; Solar, Diana – Social Behavior and Personality, 1974
Two groups of paid female students were employed in a modified Aronson and Carlsmith (1962) expectancy-performance design. Overall results did not support predictions derived from dissonance theory. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Expectation, Motivation
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Nicholls, John G. – Psychological Review, 1984
Achievement behavior is defined as behavior directed at demonstrating high ability. Ability is conceived as relative to one's own past performance, or relative to that of others. Conditions under which these conceptions of ability function as individual's goals and the nature of subjective experience in each case are specified. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Definitions
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Privette, Gayle – Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1981
This exploratory study initiates a research basis for understanding superior use of human potential. Reported episodes of peak performance indicate that peak performance is an independent entity with distinguishing phenomenological dimensions: (a) clear focus upon both object and self; (b) spontaneity and unrestrained behavior; and (c) expression…
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Goal Orientation
Betchkal, James – Nation's Schools, 1964
Schoolmen across the country are finding that not only teachers and students but taxpayers show signs of recognizing that carpet as a school floor covering may offer more function than frill in assessment of the product; however, many architects and schoolmen are withholding final judgment because not enough carpeted schools have been around long…
Descriptors: Achievement, Acoustical Environment, Behavior Patterns, Carpeting
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DiGuiseppe, Raymond – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Expectation
Grossman, Bruce D. – 1969
The major focus of this study is on the relationship between anxiety and achievement. It was predicted that with young children, anxiety is likely to have a debilitating effect on their standardized test scores as well as on teachers' ratings of their competence. This hypothesis is generally supported. The sample consists of 156 childen from…
Descriptors: Achievement, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Children
Marliave, Richard – 1973
A review of the literature indicates that measures of the McClelland-Atkinson need-Achievement (nAch) construct are weak in terms of both reliability and validity. The most serious weakness of the model's validity is the lack of evidence for the hypothesized positive relationship between nAch and performance. In addition, the inverse relationship…
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Educational Research, Expectation
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Levin, Tamar; And Others – Instructional Science, 1980
Examines the behavioral patterns of high, average, and low achievers in first-, second-, and third-grade classrooms implementing an individualized instructional strategy. Time spent on independent work, interaction patterns/achievement level, and the implications of this research for teachers and instructional developers are discussed. (RAO)
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques
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Williams, J. Gordon; Stack James J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1972
Data supported the general hypotheses that internals more actively than externals seek information which they perceive as useful in environmental control and that Negroes behave in an internal, achievement-oriented manner under conditions of appropriate expectancies and reinforcement values. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Black Students
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Dilley, James W. – Journal of the American College Health Association, 1971
Decision making patterns of college students are, in large measure, responsible for increasing use of tobacco through the undergraduate years. This behavioral information should help health personnel and behavioral researchers to understand risk taking behaviors of young people. Presented at National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health,…
Descriptors: Achievement, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, College Students
Reimanis, Gunars – Psychol Sch, 1970
Focuses on achievement striving in kindergarten and that kindergarteners' striving would be affected by ratio of approval over disapproval received from teachers for achievement behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Interpersonal Relationship
Arnold, Marjorie R. – 1976
This study was designed to identify the goal approach behaviors which distinguish first-graders with a successful achievement orientation from equally competent first-graders with an unsuccessful orientation. Based on scores of test anxiety and expectancy for success, 100 boys were designated either success-oriented or failure-threatened and then…
Descriptors: Achievement, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education
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