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Academic Motivation and Approaches to Learning in Predicting College Students' Academic Achievement: Findings from Turkish and US Samples
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Çetin, Baris – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2015
The aim of this study is to determine if approaches to learning and academic motivation together predict grade point averages (GPAs) of students who study at Primary School Education and Preschool Education in Turkey and of students who study at Early Childhood Education in the US. The first group of participants included 166 third- and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, College Students, Academic Achievement
Relations between Students' Approaches to Learning, Experienced Emotions and Outcomes of Learning
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Trigwell, Keith; Ellis, Robert A.; Han, Feifei – Studies in Higher Education, 2012
Quantitative analyses conducted on the self-reports of first year university students suggest that there is a relationship between the ways they emotionally experience their course and the approach they take to the learning of that course. Students who more strongly experience positive emotions, such as hope and pride, and more weakly experience…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Experience, Correlation, Cognitive Style
Study Process Questionnaire Manual. Student Approaches to Learning and Studying.
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Biggs, John B. – 1987
This manual describes the theory behind the Study Process Questionnaire (SPQ) and explains what the subscale and scale scores mean. The SPQ is a 42-item self-report questionnaire used in Australia to assess the extent to which a tertiary student at a college or university endorses different approaches to learning and the motives and strategies…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Learning Processes