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Natalya A. Arkhipova; Natalya N. Evdokimova; Tatyana V. Rudina – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2024
The article discusses the organization of the educational process of railway university students in the target programs. A successful educational process will be effective if the training provided to students of the transport university is of an acceptable quality, which will lead to a high demand for a specialist. When participating in targeted…
Descriptors: College Students, Transportation, Mathematics Education, Learning Processes
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Nick Serki; San Bolkan – Communication Education, 2024
This study tested the notion that the impact of clarity (i.e., structure) on learning is indirect and occurs, in part, through the reduction of cognitive load and subsequently through students' motivation to process instructional information. Two hundred fifty-two students were randomly assigned to one of two text-based lessons (clear or unclear)…
Descriptors: College Students, Difficulty Level, Cognitive Processes, Student Motivation
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Mayra Liuviana Vega Chica; Luis Ángel Valle Lituma – Learning Organization, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore the mediating role of the motivation for learning in knowledge acquisition and knowledge transfer in students of higher education programs in business and management. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative correlational design. Data was collected from a sample of 366 students studying and working in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation, College Students
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Botejara-Antúnez, Manuel; Sánchez-Barroso, Gonzalo; González-Domínguez, Jaime; García-Sanz-Calcedo, Justo – Education Sciences, 2022
Engineering courses usually have a low success rate, and students that take them often consider them difficult and show little motivation towards them. In this context, it is essential to obtain information about the profile of the students so that the teaching can be adapted to their perceived needs and motivations as well to provide support to…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Motivation, Cognitive Style, College Students
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Yizhou Fan; Luzhen Tang; Huixiao Le; Kejie Shen; Shufang Tan; Yueying Zhao; Yuan Shen; Xinyu Li; Dragan Gaševic – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
With the continuous development of technological and educational innovation, learners nowadays can obtain a variety of supports from agents such as teachers, peers, education technologies, and recently, generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT. In particular, there has been a surge of academic interest in human-AI collaboration and…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Achievement, Writing Exercises, Artificial Intelligence
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EL Hassane Ait Ali – Journal of Educators Online, 2025
The Community of Inquiry (COI) framework theory, developed by Garrison et al. (1999), is an established theoretical framework in distant and online learning. The purpose of this study is to discover more about how university students view instructors' presence and how it affects their motivation and learning outcomes. Data were gathered using the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Student Motivation, Learning Processes, Educational Environment
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Kaya, Omer Sami; Ercag, Erinc – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Despite the growing attention towards gamification in learning context, challenge-based gamification application has rarely been subjected to testing in education. In recognition of this void, and grounded on gamification principles, we developed Educhall web-based program. Drawing on self-determination theory, and flow theory the present study…
Descriptors: Gamification, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
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Fernando Núñez-Regueiro – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Self-determination theory (SDT) proposes to explain the relations between motivational states and human development. In education, a central tenet of the theory is that experiencing autonomous motivation in school activities (i.e., genuine pleasure and enjoyment) fosters optimal learning processes, whereas experiencing controlled motivation (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Student Motivation, College Students, Secondary School Students
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Karla Elizondo; Rafael Valenzuela; José V. Pestana; Nuria Codina – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Procrastination is a delay in an intended course of action and, thus, a self-regulation failure hindering growth and well-being. Contrarily, self-regulation is a set of cognitive and metacognitive skills and strategies supporting goal-directed behavior. There is ongoing discussion regarding the extent to which (and the ways in which) promoting…
Descriptors: Self Management, College Students, Time Management, Student Motivation
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Sarah Mollman; Timothy J. Muckle; Margaret Martinez – SAGE Open, 2024
The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze the psychometric properties of the Learning Orientation Questionnaire (LOQ), which have not been previously published. Psychometric validation involves the accumulation of proper empirical evidence to confirm measurement of the intended construct, and to justify the intended uses of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Health Education, Learning Processes
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Nazarana Mather; Liesl Scheepers – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
Feedback is one of the most powerful tools for teaching and learning. Providing meaningful feedback to students is of particular importance in an online context as it is a direct way for the facilitator to engage with their students and to provide them with individual, tailored support. This study sought to explore the perceptions of online…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Private Colleges, Facilitators (Individuals), Online Courses
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Garro-Mena, Leonardo; Calderón-Castro, Jenny Andrea – Online Submission, 2022
Introduction: Various studies have associated boredom in educational processes with a variety of negative effects. It is believed that boredom is caused by a failure in the environment to fulfill our need for motivation. Many tools (scales) have been developed to measure it. However, these scales are designed to measure global boredom, that is, at…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Psychological Patterns, Learner Engagement
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Jahangir Wasim; Moustafa Haj Youssef; Ioannis Christodoulou; Robert Reinhardt – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: This research aims to identify the intentions behind becoming an entrepreneur and the perception of entrepreneurial failure among different groups of students. There has been significant research discussing the motivations behind becoming an entrepreneur. However, such a research study is often focused on individuals who are already in…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Student Motivation, Intention, Learning Processes
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Abdelnaser Sanad Alakayleh – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2025
In this study, which used a quantitative and correlational approach, the variables influencing Jordanian university students' perceptions of their education under emergency remote learning scenarios were investigated. An online survey was administered to a sample of 765 male and female education stage students. Jordan offers higher education for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes
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Coto, Mayela; Mora, Sonia; Grass, Beatriz; Murillo-Morera, Juan – Computer Science Education, 2022
Background and context: Emotions are ubiquitous in academic settings and affect learning strategies, motivation to persevere, and academic outcomes, however they have not figured prominently in research on learning to program at the university level. Objective: To summarize the current knowledge available on the effect of emotions on students…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
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