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Effect of Goal Setting on the Strategies Used to Solve a Block Design Task
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Rozencwajg, Paulette; Fenouillet, Fabien – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
In this experiment we studied the effect of goal setting on the strategies used to perform a block design task called SAMUEL. SAMUEL can measure many indicators, which are then combined to determine the strategies used by participants when solving SAMUEL problems. Two experimental groups were created: one group was given an explicit, difficult…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Intelligence, Instructional Design, Goal Orientation
Applying Silvia's Model of Interest to Academic Text: Is There a Third Appraisal?
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Connelly, Daniel A. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
Recent research, treating interest as an emotion, indicates the cognitive appraisals of novelty-complexity and coping potential predict interest. This appraisal-based model of interest has not yet been applied to educational research. The present study evaluated the significance of the model regarding the activity of reading expository,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Cognitive Processes, Coping, Student Interests
Implicit Beliefs, Achievement Goals, and Procrastination: A Mediational Analysis
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Howell, Andrew J.; Buro, Karen – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
As a maladaptive behavioural outcome, procrastination should correlate with beliefs about ability and achievement goals that are themselves relatively maladaptive. Accordingly, procrastination should be predicted by entity as opposed to incremental implicit theories (i.e., viewing attributes such as ability as relatively fixed vs. malleable,…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Beliefs, Student Behavior, Undergraduate Students