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Johnson, Marcus Lee; Sinatra, Gale M. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2013
This study explored the relationship between task values, engagement, and conceptual change. One hundred and sixty-six under graduate students were randomly assigned to one of three task value instructional inductions (utility, attainment, and control) to determine whether induced task values would result in different degrees of engagement and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, College Students, Concept Formation, Student Motivation
Capanegra, Ana Isabel – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Many scholars have researched reading-to-writing relations, some of which found reading to be an effective enhancer of writing (Al-Jarf, 2004; Asencior, 2006; Lee, 1986a; Lee & Riley, 1990; Perez-Sotelo & Gonzalez-Bueno, 2003; Shang, 2007). Similar beginner college student samples were used previously by Asencior (2006), Perez-Sotelo and…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, College Students, Experimental Groups, Control Groups