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Price, Jenifer Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Recent studies indicate a positive correlation between academic performance and metacognitive self-regulation (MSR) and effort regulation (ER). This relationship was explored across performance (e.g., higher and lower) and satisfaction (e.g., satisfied and dissatisfied) levels to help identify which self-regulated learning (SRL) skills were most…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Correlation, High School Graduates, Learning Strategies
Buchholz, Jesse – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Increasing a correctional offender's mindset, resilience, and self-efficacy can be accomplished through the efficient use of technology within correctional education. Correctional facilities that employ the use of technology have the capacity to provide offenders with a tool that will serve them while they are incarcerated and again when they are…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Self Efficacy, Resilience (Psychology), Technology Integration
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Rupprecht, Silke; Paulus, Peter; Walach, Harald – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Teacher wellbeing and performance is affected by their ability to cope with the demands of the profession. This pilot nonrandomized, waitlist-controlled study investigated the impact of a mindfulness intervention (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) on teachers' wellbeing, self-regulation ability and classroom performance applying a mixed-method…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teacher Effectiveness, Qualitative Research, Interviews
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Zumbrunn, Sharon; Marrs, Sarah; Mewborn, Caitlin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
This explanatory sequential mixed methods study investigated the writing feedback perceptions of middle and high school students (N = 598). The predictive and mediational roles of writing self-efficacy and perceptions of writing feedback on student writing self-regulation aptitude were examined using mediation regression analysis. To augment the…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Qualitative Research, Student Motivation, Writing (Composition)
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Semtin, Semry Anak; Maniam, Mahendran – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2015
This study aimed to investigate the types of cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies employed by secondary school students in Malaysia to improve their comprehension. The study employed a mixed-method approach which involves the instruments of a questionnaire and an interview. This study was conducted at SMK Kapit, involving ninety Form 4…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Secondary School Students
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Üstünlüoglu, Evrim – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2017
Despite a growing number of studies on the effectiveness of teaching and quality in higher education, reports indicate that more work is needed regarding meeting expectations in teaching quality, in particular, in investigating lecturers' application of pedagogical knowledge when transferring discipline-specific knowledge. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Quality, Instructional Effectiveness, Higher Education
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Kleden, Maria Agustina – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Various studies have rendered self-directed learning disposition to be significant in the learning of mathematics, however several previous studies have pointed the level of self-directed learning disposition to be at a low point. This research is aimed to enhance self-directed learning through implementing a metacognitive strategy in learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Metacognition, Learning Strategies
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Geduld, Bernadette – Africa Education Review, 2016
Open distance students differ in their preparedness for higher education studies. Students who are less self-regulated risk failure and drop out in the challenging milieu of open distance learning. In this study, the differences between the application of self-regulated learning strategies by low and high achievers were explored. A multi-method…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Learning Strategies, High Achievement, Low Achievement
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Mirzaei, Azizullah; Eslami, Zohreh R. – Educational Psychology, 2015
Recent second/foreign language (L2) research has witnessed the application of sociocultural tenets to L2 classrooms. This study aimed to probe whether Iranian L2 learners' engagement in ZPD-activated collaborative dialogue, or "languaging", mediates their learning process and, specifically, their appropriate use of metadiscourse to…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Second Language Learning, Sociocultural Patterns, Collaborative Writing
Zarrabi, Shayesteh – ProQuest LLC, 2016
International students, a growing population in US universities, need to possess excellent reading skills in order to succeed. American universities also benefit from admitting students who do not require remedial English classes. Reading online has become an integrated part of college education, which requires students to have additional skills.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Statistical Analysis, Online Surveys
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Hu, Haihong; Driscoll, Marcy P. – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
A mixed-methods study was conducted to examine the effects of self-regulated learning (SRL) strategy training on learners' achievement, motivation and strategy use in a web-enhanced College Success course at a community college in southeast US. It was found that training assisted with students' overall course performance and accomplishment of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Community Colleges, Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods
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Vilppu, Henna; Mikkila-Erdmann, Mirjamaija; Ahopelto, Ilona – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The aim of the study was to investigate the role of regulation and processing strategies in understanding science text. A total of 91 student teachers answered open-ended questions concerning photosynthesis before and after reading either a traditional or a refutational science text. After this, they also answered parts of the Inventory of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Processes, Science Instruction, Role
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Bax, Stephen – Language Testing, 2013
The research described in this article investigates test takers' cognitive processing while completing onscreen IELTS (International English Language Testing System) reading test items. The research aims, among other things, to contribute to our ability to evaluate the cognitive validity of reading test items (Glaser, 1991; Field, in press). The…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Eye Movements, Cognitive Processes, Language Tests
Weaver, Stefanie Owen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this research study was to explore the effects of metacognitive strategies on academic achievement, metacognitive awareness, and satisfaction in an undergraduate online education course. It was hypothesized that the use of metacognitive strategies would improve the students' academic achievement, metacognitive awareness, and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Online Courses
Beckley, Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Many college students struggle with first-semester general chemistry. Prior studies have shown that a student's prior knowledge of chemistry, a cognitive factor, does not account for the total variance when measured by examination scores. This study explored the role of self-regulated learning (SRL) to identify the degree of success or failure of…
Descriptors: College Students, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Prior Learning
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