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Direct linkRan Wei – Cogent Education, 2024
The utilisation of the RIASEC Theory, based on the Holland Code, has gained substantial popularity in the realm of career planning. Nevertheless, only a limited number of studies have explored the potential influence of the six personality types identified in the Realistic-Investigative-Artistic-Social-Enterprising-Conventional Theory (RIASEC…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Educational Theories, Career Choice
Chan, Yiu-Kong – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Learning effectiveness requires an understanding of the relationship among extracurricular activities, learning approach and academic performance and, it is argued, this helps educators develop techniques designed to enrich learning effectiveness. Biggs' Presage-Process-Product model on student learning has identified the relationship among…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Outcomes of Education, Case Studies, Academic Achievement
King, Ronnel B.; Ganotice, Fraide A.; Watkins, David A. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2014
We examined how achievement (mastery and performance) and social goals (affiliation, approval, concern, and status) influenced various learning outcomes in two collectivist cultures. Filipino (n = 355) and Hong Kong Chinese (n = 697) secondary students answered the relevant questionnaires. Regression analyses using mastery, performance, and social…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Metacognition, Predictor Variables, Asians
Au, Raymond C. P.; Watkins, David A.; Hattie, John A. C. – Educational Psychology, 2010
The aim of the present study is to explore a causal model of academic achievement and learning-related personal variables by testing the nature of relationships between learned hopelessness, its risk factors and hopelessness deficits as proposed in major theories in this area. The model investigates affective-motivational characteristics of…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Causal Models, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Peer reviewedCheung, Chan-Kiu; Liu, Suk-Ching; Lee, Tak-Yan – Adolescence San Diego, 2005
Parental monitoring, teacher support, classmate support, and friend relationship presumably affect adolescents' runaway from home. According to social control theory, social control based on conventional social norms would prevent adolescent runaway, but association with friends may erode such control. This expectation appears to hold true in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents, Grade 7, Runaways
Download full textDrew, Po Yin; Watkins, David – 1997
This study investigates the interrelationships of academic causal attributions, academic self-concept, learning approaches, and their effects on academic achievement among Hong Kong Chinese tertiary students. It was hypothesized that academic causal attributions and academic self-concept affect the learning approaches students adopt and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Causal Models, College Students
Yin, Lai Po – 1999
The longitudinal changes in the causal attributions, academic self-concept, and learning approaches of 549 university students in Hong Kong were studied. Students were enrolled in two different disciplines: language/health studies (n=272) and construction/engineering (n=277). Measurements of causal dimensions, academic self-concept, learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Attribution Theory, Causal Models
Peer reviewedKember, David; And Others – American Journal of Distance Education, 1991
Presents a quantitative study of the development of a theoretical model of drop-outs from distance education courses. Data collected by the Distance Education Student Progress (DESP) questionnaire from 1,060 students in Hong Kong investigated how students were able to integrate demands of their academic course with those of families, employers,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Causal Models, Correlation, Distance Education
Peer reviewedCheung, K. C. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993
Results are presented of an evaluation of effects of the within-classroom component of the Second International Science Study on science learning processes and products at the twelfth-grade level in Hong Kong. Partial Least Squares Path (PLSPATH) analysis is used to model the data obtained from 6,103 students in 217 classrooms. (SLD)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Grade 12
