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Hongrui Liu; Yuxuan Liu; Meiling Yao – School Mental Health, 2024
The purpose of this study was to address the role of social comparison in determining individual development by exploring the relationship of four types of social comparison with academic persistence-procrastination and subjective well-being among Chinese adolescents (n = 530, M[subscript age] = 14.59) from both variable- and person-centered…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Individual Development, Correlation
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John Hansen; Amanda Nemeth; John Stewart – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Curricular analytics (CA) is a quantitative method that analyzes the sequence of courses (curriculum) that students in an undergraduate academic program must complete to fulfill the requirements of the program. The main hypothesis of CA is that the less complex a curriculum is, the more likely it is that students complete the program. This study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Instruction, Science Curriculum
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Xiuyu Lin; Zehui Zhan; Xuebo Zhang; Jiayi Xiong – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
The attribution of learning success or failure is crucial for students' learning and motivation. Effective attribution of their learning success or failure in the context of a small private online course (SPOC) could generate students' motivation toward learning success while an incorrect attribution would lead to a sense of helplessness. Based on…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Learning Processes, Learning Motivation, Attribution Theory
Paul Vespo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the degree to which character strengths can predict grade point average (GPA), in comparison with and over and above the established predictors of grit, self-control, and conscientiousness. The current study was based on the work of Boerma and Neill (2020), who examined the relationship between…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Self Control, Personality Traits, Academic Achievement
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Carrasqueira, Karina; Koslinski, Mariane C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
The objective of this work was to verify if there is an association between a merit pay policy practiced by the Rio de Janeiro municipal local administration in the patterns of teachers' mobility and attrition. The research followed the movement of teachers who took posts in the Rio de Janeiro municipal system between 2009 and 2011 during the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Incentives, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility
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Sudina, Ekaterina; Plonsky, Luke – Modern Language Journal, 2021
The emerging interest in grit, referred to as sustained perseverance and passion for reaching long-term goals and conceptualized as a facet of conscientiousness, has shown that language-specific grit is positively linked to foreign language (FL) achievement. Evidence from recent studies on intended effort and academic buoyancy--constructs…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Gao, Ming; Zhang, Jingjing; Lu, Yu; Kahn, Ken; Winters, Niall – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: As a non-cognitive trait, grit plays an important role in human learning. Although students higher in grit are more likely to perform well on tests, how they learn in the process has been underexamined. Objectives: This study attempted to explore how students with different levels of grit behave and learn in an exploratory learning…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Academic Persistence, Personality Traits, Usability
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Portman, Robert M.; Levy, Andrew R.; Allen, Sarah F.; Fairclough, Stuart J. – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: There is recent evidence that exercise referral schemes (ERSs) are beginning to permit self-referral access. Notwithstanding this, to date it is unknown whether key referral characteristics, such as age, gender and socioeconomic status are associated with a greater likelihood of self-referring to an ERS, and whether self-referral…
Descriptors: Referral, Exercise, Health Behavior, Gender Differences
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Eichelberger, Brenda; Gerbing, David; Gilpatrick, Thomas – College Student Journal, 2020
This study analyzes the relationship of completion of a college level personal finance course to undergraduate retention and graduation rates. Through the utilization of comparative data, results demonstrated that students who completed the personal finance course had a significantly higher probability of year to year retention and successful…
Descriptors: Money Management, Academic Persistence, Correlation, Knowledge Level
Homer, Cory R. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the quantitative correlational study was to examine the extent to which there is a correlation between specific components of perceived self-regulated learning (PSRL) and academic achievement for students participating in asynchronous online community college courses that utilize a staggered content delivery method in the Northeast…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Correlation, Metacognition, Academic Achievement
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Markle, Gail; Stelzriede, Danelle Dyckhoff – Innovative Higher Education, 2020
This study examined how factors associated with student development and persistence differ between first-generation and continuing-generation students and how participation in a learning community influences development and persistence. The findings show that first-generation students were less involved in academics and had lower gains in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, First Generation College Students, Intellectual Development, Academic Persistence
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Admiraal, Wilfried; Veldman, Ietje; Mainhard, Tim; van Tartwijk, Jan – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
The relationship with students is one of the main sources of teachers' job satisfaction throughout their career. To support veteran teachers and decrease attrition rates during the late career, more insights are necessary to understand the complex relationship between veteran teachers' relationships with their students and their job satisfaction.…
Descriptors: Veterans, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Attitudes
Patricia Benavides-Dominguez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Student enrollment at community colleges within the U.S. has remained flat or decreased for over a decade (AACC, 2019). Before COVID-19, community colleges had been experiencing a steady decline in enrollment for approximately ten years (Irwin et al., 2021). The purpose was to determine whether demographic, environmental, and academic variables…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment Management, Strategic Planning, School Holding Power
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Calchei, Marcela; Barrett, Karen Caplovitz; Amukune, Stephen; Józsa, Krisztián – Cogent Education, 2022
Recent empirical research has demonstrated the importance of mastery motivation in child development. Therefore, it is essential to have valid and reliable instruments to measure this variable. The Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaires (DMQ 18) was validated in English, Hungarian, Chinese and Spanish. In this article, we evaluate the psychometric…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Russian, Romance Languages, Ethnic Groups
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Post, Martiqua L.; Bates, Katherine; Scharff, Lauren – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2020
To explore factors that may inform teaching and learning in STEM education, we investigate individual and situational factors influencing students' cooperative versus competitive responses in a classroom, extra-credit problem social dilemma in core biology and engineering courses. We were curious how our competitive academic environment coupled…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Decision Making, Females
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