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Conrad Borchers; Jeroen Ooge; Cindy Peng; Vincent Aleven – Grantee Submission, 2025
Personalized problem selection enhances student practice in tutoring systems. Prior research has focused on transparent problem selection that supports learner control but rarely engages learners in selecting practice materials. We explored how different levels of control (i.e., full AI control, shared control, and full learner control), combined…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Learner Controlled Instruction, Learning Analytics
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Jianzhong Xu – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
The present study investigated multilevel models posited to predict student approaches to homework. Participants were 1,072 middle school students in China. Results revealed that deep and surface approaches were positively associated with performance-approach. Furthermore, deep approach to homework was associated negatively with homework cost, yet…
Descriptors: Homework, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Predictor Variables, Middle School Students
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Mete, Pelin – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2021
The current study aims to investigate whether there is a meaningful effect of self-efficacy and task value on the achievement approach goals in learning science. In line with this purpose, a correlational method was used in the current study. The participants of this study were 310 middle school students from six public schools (close to each…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Self Efficacy, Science Instruction, Correlation
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Subasi, Münevver – Science Education International, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the relationships among mastery goal orientations (approach and avoidance), adaptive coping strategy (positive coping), and motivational beliefs (self-efficacy and task value) among middle school students in science. The study group consists of 249 students studying at four middle schools in one of the largest…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Goal Orientation, Coping, Positive Attitudes
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Schumaker, Jean B.; Walsh, Lisa D.; Fisher, Joseph B. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2021
The effects of an interactive multimedia (IM) software program for teaching comma strategies to students with learning disabilities (LD) were determined with regard to the students' sentence-editing and sentence-construction skills. Students with LD at the middle-school and high-school levels were randomly selected in their intact cohorts for the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Multimedia Instruction, Courseware, Mastery Learning
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Kurt, Uluhan; Tas, Yasemin – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2019
The aim of this study is to examine how parents' support for their children's science homework and the goal orientation of students in science homework predict their deep learning and management strategies that students use when doing homework. For this purpose, among quantitative research approaches, correlational method was used in the study.…
Descriptors: Homework, Goal Orientation, Learning Strategies, Parent Child Relationship
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Kahraman, Nurcan – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2018
Introduction: This study aims to explore the effect of students' adoption of approach goals; both mastery and performance approach goals and performance avoidance goals on their motivational beliefs and coping strategy use in science classes from multiple goals perspective. Students' motivational beliefs were examined in terms of self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement
Baharev, Zulejka – ProQuest LLC, 2016
At the start of the 21st century large scale educational initiatives reshaped the landscape of general education setting rigorous academic expectations to all students. Despite the legal efforts to improve K-12 education, an abundance of research indicates that students entering college often lack basic learning and study skills. For adolescents…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Learning Strategies, Recall (Psychology), Comprehension
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Duchesne, Stephane; Ratelle, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Recent literature on the determinants of academic motivation has shown that parenting and emotions are central elements in understanding students' achievement goals. The authors of this study set out to examine the predictive relationship between parental behaviors during the last year of elementary school and adolescents' achievement goals at the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Emotional Problems, Structural Equation Models