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Goagoses, Naska; Itenge, Helvi; Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike; Koglin, Ute – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2020
Achievement goal orientations and self-regulated learning have become central constructs in education research, with both contributing significantly towards students' academic success. However, very little research has focused on students' social achievement goals, that is their social reasons for wanting to do well in school. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning, Self Management, Elementary School Students
Adegboyega, Lateef Omotosho – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
This paper investigated the influence of achievement motivation on Nigerian undergraduates' attitude towards examination. Descriptive survey of the correlational type was employed for the study. One thousand, five hundred and thirty-six (1,536) undergraduates in Nigeria were drawn using purposive and stratified sampling techniques. Four research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Influences
Cocorada, Elena; Cazan, Ana-Maria; Orzea, Ioana Emanuela – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
This article presents a tool that provides reliable scores for studying the school climate from the students' perspective, created for the Romanian context. The main aim of the article is to present the psychometric properties of the instrument. The participants were 605 students, enrolled in four secondary schools and four high schools, from an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Educational Environment, Student Attitudes
Talafha, Feras – International Education Studies, 2015
This study examines the level of psychographic attributes among the preparatory year students enrolled at the University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The study sample consists of 209 students chosen with the help of random sampling and questionnaire survey was employed for data collection. Based on the findings, the entire study variables, which are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Models, Learning
Yusuf; Adeoti, Florence; Olufunke, Yinusa Rasheedat; Ruth, Bamgbose Oluwayemisi – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study investigated perception of undergraduates on factors responsible for examination malpractices. The study is a descriptive study; a sample of two hundred (200) undergraduates formed the participants for the study. A questionnaire titled: "Factor responsible for examination malpractices was used for data collection. Data collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Questionnaires, Study Habits
Yigermal, Moges Endalamaw – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
This study was designed to investigate the determinant factors affecting academic performance of regular undergraduate students of Arba Minch University (AMU) Chamo Campus students. The study employed the use of correlation design to establish the nature of the relationships. Data were collected from 100 respondents selected from all the 12…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Performance Factors
Ahmed, Rafiuddin – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Students' use of test information to prepare for a test in a controlled or supervised test environment has been examined in studies outside Australia. This paper reports the findings of the use of test information and its value, in terms of an improvement/decline in marks, in an actual test of an undergraduate subject taught at an Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Questionnaires, Student Surveys
Haridarshan, Pooja – Support for Learning, 2015
Education of girls in India lags behind that of boys and several communities in India fare worse than others. Because of their secondary status in the society, Indian girls tend to suffer from low self-esteem. Thus, it is necessary to study the reasons why girls are being discouraged from attending and completing school as well as what are the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Parent Aspiration, Expectation, Urban Areas
Irwandy – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2014
The objective of this study was to assess the role of motivation on teacher performance in Indonesia. This study in an assessment of this aim used deductive approach where a qualitative survey was conducted among students at Universitas Negeri Medan (UNIMED), Indonesia who are assumed to be future teachers. The survey was intended to get their…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Motivation, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
Abraham, Jessy; Barker, Katrina – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2014
Currently there is a need for measures to examine the issue of sustaining students' enrolment intentions over an extended period of study in physics, a subject which is generally perceived as hard and demanding by students. This paper addresses this gap in research by describing the development and the assessment of psychometric properties of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Physics, Secondary School Science
Urhahne, Detlef; Ho, Lok Hang; Parchmann, Ilka; Nick, Sabine – High Ability Studies, 2012
The aim of this study was trying to predict success in the qualifying round for the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) on the basis of the expectancy-value model of achievement motivation by Eccles et al. The investigation with 52 participants, including 14 females, was conducted during the third of four qualifying rounds of the IChO in…
Descriptors: Talent, Intelligence Tests, Achievement Need, Expectation
Shaw, Kylie; Holbrook, Allyson; Bourke, Sid – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
During this past decade the level of interest in building research capacity has intensified in Australia and internationally, with a particular emphasis on the development of postgraduate research students, but also extending to undergraduate research experience. This study investigated the student experience across a diverse range of fourth-year…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Undergraduate Students, Research Projects, Research Skills
Nyikahadzoi, Loveness; Matamande, Wilson; Taderera, Ever; Mandimika, Elinah – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2013
The study seeks to establish scientific evidence of the factors affecting academic performance for first year accounting students using four selected courses at the University of Zimbabwe. It uses Ordinary Least Squares method to analyse the influence of personal and family background on performance. The findings show that variables age gender,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Accounting, Performance Factors
Tulu, Geberew – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
The main aim of the study was to examine students' attribution of performance in learning English as a foreign language at Adama town government high schools and see into its pedagogical implications. It aimed at investigating the perceived causes of success and failure of boys and girls. In order to meet the objectives of the study, data were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Gender Differences, Attribution Theory
Knafo, Ariel; Spinath, Frank M. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
In this first investigation of genetic and environmental influences on children's values, 271 German twin pairs (50.2% boys) reported their values at ages 7-11 years using the Portrait Values Questionnaire (Schwartz & Rubel, 2005). We distinguished between gender-neutral (conservation vs. openness to change) and gender-typed…
Descriptors: Twins, Females, Genetics, Environmental Influences
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