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Strunk, Kamden K.; Cho, YoonJung; Steele, Misty R.; Bridges, Stacey L. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
Procrastination is an educational concern for classroom instructors because of its negative psychological and academic impacts on students. However, the traditional view of procrastination as a unidimensional construct is insufficient in two regards. First, the construct needs to be viewed more broadly as time-related academic behavior,…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Time Management, Motivation, Models
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Danthiir, Vanessa; Wilhelm, Oliver; Roberts, Richard D. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The purpose of this study was to replicate the structure of mental speed and relations evidenced with fluid intelligence (Gf) found in a number of recent studies. Specifically, a battery of computerized tasks examined whether results with paper-and-pencil assessments held across different test media. Participants (N = 186) completed the battery,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intelligence, Factor Structure, Test Validity
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Chiang, Yu-Tzu; Yeh, Yu-Chen; Lin, Sunny S. J.; Hwang, Fang-Ming – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
This study examined structure and predictive utility of the 2 x 2 achievement goal model among Taiwan pre-university school students (ages 10 to 16) who learned Chinese language arts. The confirmatory factor analyses of Achievement Goal Questionnaire-Chinese version provided good fitting between the factorial and dimensional structures with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Factor Structure, Achievement, Objectives
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Brunner, Martin; Keller, Ulrich; Hornung, Caroline; Reichert, Monique; Martin, Romain – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
Prior research on the structure of academic self-concepts has demonstrated academic self-concepts to be domain-specific and hierarchically organized, but has largely failed to support the hypothesis that general academic self-concept is at the apex of the hierarchy. The present study investigates a new multidimensional nested-factor model of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Characteristics, Academic Ability, Models