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Warden, David N; Myers, Charlsie A. – College Student Journal, 2017
The relationship between domain-specific nonintellective variables and academic achievement among nontraditional students was explored to address uninvestigated factors and clarify distinctions between nontraditional and traditional student achievement. College students (nontraditional n = 72, traditional n = 67) completed an online survey…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement, College Students
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Tonhäuser, Cornelia; Büker, Laura – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2016
Investments in training measures can only be considered effective if the transfer of the learned contents to practical situations is continuously successful. In this context the scientific and professional discourse regarding the effectiveness of further education, especially regarding training transfer, has intensified considerably. This analysis…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Literature Reviews, Vocational Education, Work Environment
Tonhäuser, Cornelia; Büker, Laura – Online Submission, 2016
Investments in training measures can only be considered effective if the transfer of the learned contents to practical situations is continuously successful. In this context the scientific and professional discourse regarding the effectiveness of further education, especially regarding transfer of training, has intensified considerably. This…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Literature Reviews, Vocational Education, Work Environment
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Broadbent, Jaclyn – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
Previous studies have investigated the association between the frequency of student learning management system (LMS) use (logins, discussion board use, resources used, etc.) and academic achievement. These studies indicate that low LMS use by students is likely to result in less academic success. However, these models fail to take into account…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Success, Self Efficacy, Integrated Learning Systems
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Xiao, Junhong – Open Learning, 2012
Research on the good language learner in the conventional learning context has been high on the agenda of practitioners in the field of English as a second language/English as a foreign language since the mid-1970s. This study, however, focuses on the distance learning context with the aim of constructing an "affective" profile of the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Self Efficacy, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning
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Shell, Duane F.; Husman, Jenefer – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
This study of 397 undergraduate students examined relations between self-reported control, goal orientation, future time perspective, affect, and strategic self-regulation. Five patterns were found in three canonical dimensions. The high end of bipolar Dimension 1 linked high self-regulated strategy use and study effort to high self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Time Perspective