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Kam Hong Shum; Samuel Kai Wah Chu; Cheuk Yu Yeung – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study examines the use of data analytics to evaluate students' behaviours during their participation in an online collaborative learning environment called SkyApp. To visualise the learning traits of engagement, emotion and motivation, students' inputs and activity data were captured and quantified for analysis. Experiments were first carried…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Online Courses, Cooperative Learning, Computer Software
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Rosário, Pedro; Núñez, José Carlos; Azevedo, Raquel; Cunha, Jennifer; Pereira, Armanda; Mourão, Rosa – School Psychology International, 2014
In Portugal, as in other European countries, gypsy children remain largely at the margins of the educational system. Their underachievement and the associated dropout rates from school are serious educational issues and factors contributing to their marginalization in society. However, there is limited research qualitatively examining the…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Data Analysis
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Jansen in de Wal, Joost; Hornstra, Lisette; Prins, Frans J.; Peetsma, Thea; van der Veen, Ineke – Educational Psychology, 2016
This study's aim was to examine the prevalence, development and domain specificity of fifth- and sixth-grade elementary school students' achievement goal profiles. Achievement goals were measured for language and mathematics among 722 pupils at three points in time. These data were analysed through latent profile analysis and latent transition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
Chang, Wan Yu – ProQuest LLC, 2010
THE PROBLEM: This study investigated students' perceptions of the English Village Program at the Fong Shan Elementary School in Kaohsiung County, Taiwan. The main objectives of this research were to discover the fifth graders' motivation and attitudes toward (a) the simulated theme classrooms, (b) the native English-speaking teacher's instruction,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Learning Motivation
Pressick-Kilborn, Kimberley; Sainsbury, Erica; Walker, Richard – Australian Educational Researcher, 2005
Educational psychology has a tradition of considering learning and motivation in terms of the individual and individual functioning. Short-term intervention studies have been common and quantitative measurement of the causes and effects of variables has been the aim of much research. When a sociocultural approach forms the basis of research into…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Learning Motivation, Intervention, Research Methodology