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Sarah Devos; Erica Scharrer; Steven Eggermont; Femke Konings; Laura Vandenbosch – Journal of Children and Media, 2025
The current experimental study among 451 Belgian adolescents examined how televised narratives that suggest that academic performance can change with hard work and effort (i.e. malleability narrative) compared to narratives that focus on inability to change academic performances (i.e. fixed narrative) differently affect academic self-perceptions,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior
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Giannoulas, Angelos; Stampoltzis, Aglaia – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2021
Mathematics is a constituent of the education of Engineering students. This paper reports on a study investigating the attitudes and perceptions towards mathematics of first year Engineering students. The sample consisted of 145 freshmen (80 men and 65 women) from one Greek university, derived from three Engineering departments (Mechanical,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Engineering Education, Mathematics Anxiety
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Parker, David R.; Hoffman, Sharon Field; Sawilowsky, Shlomo; Rolands, Laura – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2013
Objective: The objective of this study was to identify undergraduates' perceptions of the impact of ADHD coaching on their academic success and broader life functioning. Method: One-on-one interviews were conducted with 19 students on 10 different U.S. campuses who comprised a purposive sample of gender, cumulative grade point average, and…
Descriptors: Self Control, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Griffin, Richard; MacKewn, Angie; Moser, Ernest; VanVuren, Ken W. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2012
Universities and colleges are very interested in understanding the factors that influence their students' academic performance. This paper describes a study that was conducted at a mid-sized public university in the mid-south, USA, to examine this issue. In this study, the 10-scale, Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) (Weinstein et…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Measures (Individuals), Study Skills
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Downing, Kevin; Chan, Sui-Wah; Downing, Woo-Kyung; Kwong, Theresa; Lam, Tsz-Fung – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate relationships between gender, A-level scores and scores on the learning and study strategies inventory (LASSI) of undergraduate students. Design/methodology/approach: The participants for this study were selected at random from the overall LASSI sampling exercise and males and females were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Intelligence Tests, Metacognition