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Aslan Efe, Hülya; Efe, Rifat – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2018
In this study, the relationship between study preservice science teachers' academic procrastination and their attitudes toward social media was investigated. The study was carried out with the participation of 511 preservice science teachers (F: 346, M:165) on teacher education course at Dicle University during 2014-2015 academic year. The date…
Descriptors: Social Media, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teacher Attitudes
Huie, Faye C.; Winsler, Adam; Kitsantas, Anastasia – Journal of Education and Work, 2014
Students often work in order to meet monetary requirements for college. However, employment reduces the time students can devote to their studies, which can hinder performance. This study examined whether motivation (self-efficacy goal orientation) and self-regulated learning (help-seeking, metacognitive self-regulation, time management and effort…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Academic Achievement, Self Management, Metacognition
Wolters, Christopher A.; Fan, Weihua; Daugherty, Stacy G. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2013
This study was designed to forge stronger theoretical and empirical links between achievement goal theory and attribution theory. High school students ("N" = 224) completed a self-report survey that assessed 3 types of achievement goals, 7 types of attributions, and self-efficacy. Results indicated that students' adoption of achievement…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Attribution Theory, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Sutantoputri, Novita W.; Watt, Helen M. G. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Relationships between cultural factors (ethnicity and religiosity) and dimensions of students' attributions for their success and failure (locus of control, stability, personal control and external control), along with motivational goals (learning, performance approach, performance avoidance, and work avoidance), self-efficacy, intelligence…
Descriptors: Motivation, Attribution Theory, College Students, Ethnicity
Wilson, James K., III – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to better predict how a first semester college freshman becomes prepared for college. The theoretical framework guiding this study is Vrooms' expectancy theory, motivation plays a key role in success. This study used a hierarchical multiple regression model. The independent variables of interest included high school…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, College Readiness, College Freshmen, College Preparation
Wilson, Jacqueline I. – Issues in Educational Research, 2009
This study explores what motivates a student to enter medical school by first measuring students' strength of motivation and then by looking for relationships between motivation and career-related values and approaches to learning. Validated and reliable questionnaires were used to obtain data. This study found no differences in strength of…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Social Status, Medical Schools, Self Esteem
Guan, Jianmin; Xiang, Ping; McBride, Ron; Bruene, April – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2006
This study examined the relationship between achievement goals and social goals and explored how students' achievement goals and social goals might affect their reported persistence and effort expended toward physical education in high school settings. Participants were 544 students from two high schools in the southwest U.S. Multiple regression…
Descriptors: Persistence, Social Responsibility, Multiple Regression Analysis, Achievement Need

Hammersla, Joy Fisher; Frease-McMahan, Lynne – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1990
A specially designed Life Goals Scale was administered to 303 university students (200 women and 103 men) to assess the relative importance of life goals and relationships. Results indicate that university students place a high value on heterosexual relationships and are willing to sacrifice most other goals for the relationships. (AF)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Affiliation Need, College Students, Dating (Social)
Wahlstrom, Darryl A. – 2001
A study investigated 210 secondary vocational/technical education students' cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses to a skill assessment process. Students received feedback on their skill strengths and weaknesses and those skills in which they over- or under-estimated their abilities. Results from hierarchical multiple regression indicated…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Behavior Development, Cognitive Structures, Competence