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Simsek, Cengiz – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
Due to the frequent change in expectations from education/learning, youth, the educational system's most dynamic participants, are experiencing low-level motivation in education and learning, because of growth and psychological characteristics or sociological, economic, and other reasons. This negative process is pushing program-developers,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Psychological Characteristics, Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Jacobs, George M. – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1994
Studies the effect of vocabulary glossing on reading comprehension in second-language learning. Findings reveal that there was a significant effect for glossing but no significant interactions between the treatment and any of the other variables, i.e., psychological type, tolerance of ambiguity, proficiency, frequency of gloss use, perceived value…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, College Students, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Harris, Roma M.; Highlen, Pamela S. – 1977
The relationship between external reinforcement of behavior and depression is explored. Specifically, the psychological study measures the role of cognition in depression by comparing decision-making problems, lack of assertiveness, and perceptions of control in male and female undergraduate college students and psychiatric patients. It was…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis