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How Achievement Goals Affect Students' Well-Being and the Relationship Model between Achievement Goals, Academic Self-Efficacy and Affect at School
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Ariani, Dorothea Wahyu – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to examine how students with different goals differ in their subjective well-being, including academic self-efficacy (ASE) and affect at school (AAS). There are four goal orientations that motivate students to achieve academic performance. Therefore, this study examined the relationship between the four dimensions of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Well Being, Self Efficacy
A Multicomponent Measure of Writing Motivation with Basic College Writers
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Philippakos, Zoi A.; Graham, Steve – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2016
The purpose of the current study was to develop and validate a measure of motivation for use with basic college writers that would measure self-efficacy, achievement goals, beliefs, and affect. As part of a design research project on curriculum for community college developmental writing classes, 133 students in 11 classes completed the motivation…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Instruction, Student Motivation, Evaluation Methods
Exploring Learner Factors in Second Language (L2) Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition through Reading
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Zhao, Aiping; Guo, Ying; Biales, Carrie; Olszewski, Arnold – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
This study examined the predictive role of several learner factors in second language (L2) incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading: L2 proficiency, motivation, anxiety, and mastery of strategies. Participants were 129 English learners in a comprehensive university in China. Participants read two English texts and were given an…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Incidental Learning, Foreign Countries
Valuing Information Literacy: Affective Learning and the ACRL Standards
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Schroeder, Robert; Cahoy, Ellysa Stern – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010
Higher education information literacy standards have readily addressed cognitive skills, although affective competencies--the emotional abilities that students must acquire in order to successfully navigate the research process--have not yet been incorporated into standards. This paper presents examples of current information literacy standards,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Research, Research Methodology, Research Skills
Leadership Identity Development: Challenges in Applying a Developmental Model
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Komives, Susan R.; Longerbeam, Susan D.; Mainella, Felicia; Osteen, Laura; Owen, Julie E.; Wagner, Wendy – Journal of Leadership Education, 2009
The leadership identity development (LID) grounded theory (Komives, Owen, Longerbeam, Mainella, & Osteen, 2005) and related LID model (Komives, Longerbeam, Owen, Mainella, & Osteen, 2006) present a framework for understanding how individual college students develop the social identity of being collaborative, relational leaders…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Grounded Theory, Self Concept, Models
Repeated Academic Failure and Learned Helplessness in the College Classroom.
Omelich, Carol L.; Covington, Martin V. – 1980
Under a mastery learning system students can take successive parallel tests with study interspersed between tests until they demonstrate a minimal level of competency. For most students, such procedures increase final performance, yet some may experience repeated subjective failure. Self-worth theory predicts that repeated failure in the face of…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, College Students
The Exploration of a Selection of Conative Constructs Relevant to Learning and Performance. Project 2.3. Complex Performance Assessments: Expanding the Scope and Approaches to Assessment. Defining Conative Construct.
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Jackson, Douglas N. – 1994
The term "conative" is used to describe constructs that span both motivational and volitional aspects of human behavior, distinguished from constructs that emphasize cognition and affection. Among the conative constructs are achievement strivings, beliefs about self-esteem and self-efficacy, interests and attitudes about learning,…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes