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Al Mulhim, Ensaf Nasser – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
This article investigates the effect of the flipped learning model on university students with internal/external locus of control regarding their self-regulated learning skills and learning retention in Saudi Arabia. The sample was divided into two groups according to learning style (internal/external locus of control). Both groups were taught…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Flipped Classroom, Independent Study, Retention (Psychology)
Sagone, Elisabetta; Indiana, Maria Luisa – Education Sciences, 2021
In this paper decision-making styles, locus of control, and average grades in exams are examined as correlates of procrastination in a sample of 185 university students (mainly female students) recruited from mandatory courses for degrees in psychology and pedagogy at the University of Catania (Italy). Method: We used the Decisional…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Cognitive Style, Locus of Control, Grades (Scholastic)
Tony Xing Tan; Joy Huanhuan Wang; Yi Zhou – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Aims: To determine the associations between COVID-19 school closures and school readiness skills for Chinese kindergarteners. Design: We utilized the natural experimental condition created by local COVID-19 outbreaks in 2022 (Study 1) to compare school readiness skills of children whose kindergartens were closed for 5 months (Group 1) with…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Readiness, School Closing
Hailikari, Telle; Nieminen, Juha; Asikainen, Henna – Educational Psychology, 2022
The present study combines two separate research traditions that have been found to explain the way students deal with their university study and other challenges: psychological flexibility and cognitive-attributional strategies. The aim of this study is to explore the interrelationships between students' psychological flexibility,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Adjustment (to Environment)
Bernardo, Allan B. I.; Salanga, Maria Guadalupe C.; Khan, Aqeel; Yeung, Susanna S. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
Positive education emphasizes the role of hope in student achievement and in buffering the effects of students' difficulties in school. In this study, we demonstrate how internal and external loci-of-hope relate to students' use of different learning strategies in school. We asked 967 university students from four cities to answer the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, College Students, Cooperative Learning, Independent Study
Akça, Figen – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
The present research aims to investigate the relationship between the learning strategies, learning styles, the locus of control and the academic success of prospective teachers. The study group consists of 198 university students in various departments at the Uludag University Faculty of Education. Research data were collected with the Locus of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Success, Preschool Teachers
Suphi, Nilgun; Yaratan, Huseyin – Educational Studies, 2012
In this study the effects of learning approaches, locus of control (LOC), socio-economic status and self-efficacy on undergraduate students in North Cyprus was investigated. Four questionnaires were administered on 99 students in order to collect data regarding the learning approaches, LOC, self-efficacy and demographic factors. High cumulative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries
Garcia-Ros, Rafael; Perez-Gonzalez, Francisco – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
This study analyze the preferences of preservice teachers about different assessment procedures, and the relationship of these preferences with the students' academic levels, learning styles and motivational orientations. The participants were 248 students in the Teaching degree program (124 first-year students and 124 in their third-year). The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Locus of Control, Cognitive Style, Self Efficacy
Steensma, Herman; Groeneveld, Karin – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2010
Purpose: The aims of this study are: to present a training evaluation based on the "four levels model"; to demonstrate the value of experimental designs in evaluation studies; and to take a first step in the development of an evidence-based training program. Design/methodology/approach: The Kirkpatrick four levels model was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Locus of Control, Cognitive Style, Evidence
Bozorgi, Simin – Online Submission, 2009
The present study sponsored by Islamic Azad University of Bandar Abbas, Iran, intended to see if locus of control really affected students' language achievement. It was hypothesized that subjects' loci of controls affected their GPA's in meaningful and significant ways. The study also tried to measure the effects of students' major and their…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Grade Point Average, Cognitive Style, College Students
Juul, Ida – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
Taking the point of departure in three different narratives concerning training as a cabinet maker, the article shows how the choice of a particular education is ascribed different significance, depending on the period and the individual's social background. In order to grasp the intersection between factors connected to the concepts of generation…
Descriptors: Educational History, Socioeconomic Background, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style

Foon, Anne E. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1986
Studying 67 clients with mild presenting problems from health centers in Canberra, Australia, the relation between clients' locus of control and expectations of therapeutic outcome was investigated. Clients estimated their likely success with therapists presented in a series of role plays. Internal clients anticipated greater success with internal…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Cognitive Style, Counseling, Counselor Client Relationship

Lokan, Janice J.; Biggs, John B. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1982
Investigated student characteristics in relation to affective and cognitive aspects of adolescent career development. Questionnaire results indicated three styles of career development: intellective or deliberative; concerned and personally involved with high or low aspirations; and uncertain or confused. Suggests motives and strategies that might…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Career Development, Cognitive Style
Brown, Michael B.; Aoshima, Megumi; Bolen, Larry M.; Chia, Rosina; Kohyama, Takaya – School Psychology International, 2007
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between approaches to learning and locus of control of students from the USA, Japan, and Taiwan. The results show that students from the USA utilized more rote memory learning compared to students from Japan and Taiwan, while students from Japan were more likely to be "Achieving"…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Concept Mapping, Locus of Control, Cultural Traits
Bennett, Roger; Barkensjo, Anna – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2005
In contrast to the extensive investigation of the characteristics of students who fail or perform badly in "new" universities, research into the factors associated with academic excellence within post-1992 institutions has been sparse. This empirical study examined the profile of a sample of 81 high-flying business studies undergraduates…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Academic Achievement, Profiles, Student Characteristics
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