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Beal, C. R.; Qu, L.; Lee, H. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2008
The study was conducted to investigate the relation of adolescent students' mathematics motivation and achievement to their appropriate help-seeking and inappropriate guessing behaviour while using instructional software. High school students (n = 90) completed brief assessments of mathematics motivation and then worked with software for geometry…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Student Motivation, Courseware, Mathematics Teachers
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Marchand, Gwen; Skinner, Ellen A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Models of self-regulated learning and of children's coping both consider help-seeking an adaptive response to academic problems, yet students do not always seek help when it is needed, and help-seeking generally declines across early adolescence. A study of 765 children in elementary and middle school (Grades 3-6) during fall and spring of the…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Age Differences, Coping, Middle Schools