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Douglas Harris; Roy McKenzie – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
There is considerable debate and evidence about how governments should regulate contractors and other firms, but little on how government should regulate schools. In the first phase of this study, we focus on the correlation between indices of state charter school policies and measures of charter quantity (market share) and three measures of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Standards, Correlation, Attribution Theory
Kulkarni, Tara; Weeks, Mollie R.; Sullivan, Amanda L. – Equity Assistance Center Region III, Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center, 2021
This Equity Tool, intended to support when critically reading a research study/report, provides a brief introduction to key concepts and issues involved in using largescale research, calling attention to high profile controversies, and providing explicit linkages to desegregation areas (race, sex, nationality, religion). The first part (Table 1)…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Check Lists, Data Analysis, Research Reports
Sáez, Fabiola M.; Bustos, Claudio E.; Pérez, María V.; Mella, Javier A.; Lobos, Karla A.; Díaz, Alejandro E. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2018
The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between (1) willingness to study strategies, (2) causal attributions (to effort, ability and external causes) and (3) student´s perception of self-efficacy about their ability to self-regulate their processes of willingness to study. Method: An instrument built by the researchers called…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Study Habits, Self Efficacy
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Haghani, Nader; Maleki, Mostafa – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
Examining the reasons for the increasing number of Iranians learning German and creating of a first theoretical basis for that is the subject of this paper. In this regard, 370 Iranian learners of German from the German Language Institute in Tehran were questioned and their motivations were studied mainly based on the theory of "L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation
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Liu, Yuan; Hou, Shumeng – School Psychology International, 2018
Among the non-cognitive factors that influence academic achievement, intrinsic motivation has been found to be a potential reciprocal factor. The present study aims to determine the causal relationship between other types of motivation and academic achievement. For this purpose, a large-scale data survey, the National Education Longitudinal Study…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Attribution Theory
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Van Hoof, Joris J.; Klerk, Frouktje Ade; Van der Lely, Nicolaas – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2018
This study examines the effects of acute alcohol intoxication on adolescents' school performance. In the 2007-2015 period, 3,317 adolescents (ages 12 to 17 years) were treated for acute alcohol intoxication, and 37 adolescents were admitted to the hospital twice. Alcohol intoxication has an overrepresentation in "low" school levels. The…
Descriptors: Drinking, Academic Achievement, Hospitals, Alcohol Abuse
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Keijsers, Loes – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
This article aims to provide a critical analysis of how much we know about the effectiveness of parental monitoring in preventing adolescent delinquency. First, it describes the historical developments in parental monitoring research. Second, it explains why it is uncertain whether causal inferences can be drawn from contemporary research findings…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Child Rearing, Delinquency
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Kaur, Ravneet – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2017
Introduction: Social anxiety is a persistent, intense and chronic fear of being negatively judged by others as well as by themselves and being embarrassed by one's own actions. Attributional styles is known as the way an individual explains positive and negative events in life and it has an important bearing on her well being, motivation and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attribution Theory, Self Control, Foreign Countries
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Ellis, Robert A.; Han, Feifei – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2018
Integrating an online component into a university course is typically done to improve the student experience. However the intent of the teacher's blended design may not always align to the students' experience of it. Their experience may be mediated by a number of factors including student perceptions of the online environment and their approach…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Environment, Blended Learning, Student Experience
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Niu, Lian – World Journal of Education, 2016
This study analyzes data of the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 to examine the association between parental provision of task-extrinsic rewards for academic performance, parent involvement in students' learning, and students' choice of study field in college. Results show that frequent receipt of task-extrinsic rewards for good grades from…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Aspiration, Majors (Students), Course Selection (Students)
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Cook, Erin E.; Nickerson, Amanda B.; Werth, Jilynn M.; Allen, Kathleen P. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
A sample of 124 service providers (e.g. mental health professionals, educators, administrators) completed a survey about bullying of individuals with disabilities and the use and perceived effectiveness of resources and strategies to address bullying. Providing support and performing an action in response to bullying were reported to be used more…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Social Differences, Counselor Attitudes
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Lohbeck, Annette; Grube, Dietmar; Moschner, Barbara – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2017
A great deal of research shows that the way in which children attribute causes to their successes and failures in school has implications for the development of their academic self-concept (ASC). The most common attributions are ability, effort, task difficulty, and luck. The present study asked 68 elementary school children aged seven to eight…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Self Concept, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure
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Fong, Carlton J.; Davis, Coreen W.; Kim, Yughi; Kim, Young Won; Marriott, Lauren; Kim, SooYeon – Review of Educational Research, 2017
This meta-analysis examined the relationship between psychosocial factors and community college student success. Informed by college persistence models and motivational theory, we statistically integrated past research on five psychosocial categories (motivation, self-perceptions, attributions, self-regulation, and anxiety), examining their…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Meta Analysis, Academic Achievement
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Yan, Shunqin – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Aim: This thesis discusses the relationship between college students' boredom tendency and attribution style as well as achievement motivation. Method: The author uses scale assessment on college students of boredom tendency scale, the inner-control scale, internality-powerful others scale and chance scale draw up by Leveson, as well as…
Descriptors: Correlation, College Students, Scores, Psychological Patterns
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Severson, Rachel L.; Lemm, Kristi M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2016
The study of anthropomorphism in adults has received considerable interest with the development of the Individual Differences in Anthropomorphism Questionnaire (IDAQ; Waytz, Cacioppo, & Epley, 2010). Anthropomorphism in children--its development, correlates, and consequences--is also of significant interest, yet a comparable measure does not…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Measures (Individuals), Questionnaires, Comparative Analysis
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