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Hüseyin Ates; Mustafa Köroglu – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Online collaboration tools have been identified as potentially effective means for enhancing student learning, motivation, and engagement in science education. However, their effectiveness in improving science education outcomes among middle school students remains uncertain. Objectives: The study aimed to investigate the impact of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement
Cosentino, Cassandra L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to investigate the effect of a self-regulation treatment on sixth grade students' reading comprehension, motivation for learning, and self-efficacy perceptions. The research took place in three urban schools in the northeast United States in the winter of 2016. The study's quasi-experimental design…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Self Control, Grade 6, Reading Comprehension
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Vandevelde, Sabrina; Van Keer, Hilde; De Wever, Bram – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
This study explores the effects of a student tutoring programme focusing on self-regulated learning. Ninety-three Flemish fifth- and sixth-grade tutees at-risk due to their socio-economic and/or non-native background participated. A pre-post test design was used and the "Learning Motivation Test", "Junior Metacognitive Awareness…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 5, At Risk Students, Independent Study
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Metallidou, Panayiota; Vlachou, Anastasia – Psychology in the Schools, 2010
This study explored the self-regulated learning (SRL) profile of upper elementary (fifth and sixth grade) school children who were differentiated in their task value beliefs (low and high) in language and mathematics. Students' SRL profile involved their teachers' ratings of achievement outcomes and SRL behaviors. The subscale of task value…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Metacognition, Role, Beliefs
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Vacca, James Stephan – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
When scaffolding is done correctly, students are encouraged to develop their own creativity, motivation, and resourcefulness. How teachers interact with students and how students interact with one another as they complete a task is important to students' ability to perform the activity. This article shows how scaffolding can be effectively applied…
Descriptors: Creativity, Learning Motivation, Grade 6, Social Studies
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Cleary, Timothy J.; Chen, Peggy P. – Journal of School Psychology, 2009
The current study examined grade level, achievement group, and math-course-type differences in student self-regulation and motivation in a sample of 880 suburban middle-school students. Analysis of variance was utilized to assess group differences in student self-regulation and motivation, and linear regression analysis was used to identify…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Motivation, Regression (Statistics), Grade 7
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Law, Yin-Kum; Chan, Carol K. K.; Sachs, John – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
Background: Most studies have investigated college and high school students' epistemological beliefs in Western contexts, with few studies examining how beliefs about learning are related to children's strategies and comprehension in the Chinese cultural context. Aims: The present study investigated Chinese elementary school children's beliefs…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Reading Comprehension, Learning Strategies, Factor Analysis