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Ozdemir Oz, Ayse; Lane, Jennie F.; Michou, Aikaterini – Educational Psychology, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate the relation of autonomous and controlling reasons underlying an endorsed achievement goal to intrinsic motivation and cheating. The endorsement of the achievement goal was ensured by involving 212 (M(subscript age) = 19.24, SD = 0.97) freshman students in a spatial task and asking them to report their most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Cheating
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Bircan, Hasan; Sungur, Semra – Science Education International, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution of the motivational beliefs (self-efficacy and task-value) and cognitive engagement to seventh grade students' science achievement. For the specified purpose, cross-sectional correlational research design was used. The data were gathered from the seventh grade students of public middle…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes
Ezen-Can, Aysu; Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
The tremendous effectiveness of intelligent tutoring systems is due in large part to their interactivity. However, when learners are free to choose the extent to which they interact with a tutoring system, not all learners do so actively. This paper examines a study with a natural language tutorial dialogue system for computer science, in which…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Processing, Computer Science Education, Problem Solving
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Neugebauer, Sabina R.; Howard, Elizabeth R. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2015
The current study, with 409 fourth graders in two-way immersion programs, explored the writing self-perceptions of native English and native Spanish speakers and the relationship between self-perceptions and writing performance. An adapted version of the Writer Self-Perception Scale (WSPS) was administered along with a writing task. Native English…
Descriptors: Correlation, Self Concept, Writing Skills, Spanish Speaking
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Pyun, Danielle Ooyoung – Foreign Language Annals, 2013
This study explores second/foreign language (L2) learners' attitudes toward task-based language learning (TBLL) and how these attitudes relate to selected learner variables, namely anxiety, integrated motivation, instrumental motivation, and self-efficacy. Ninety-one college students of Korean as a foreign language, who received task-based…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Anxiety
Edwards, Diana Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the school achievement and motivation literature of African American students, one major theme of the literature is a supposed inconsistency or discrepancy in African American students' value and expectations for their academic achievement and their actual levels of achievement. The discrepancy between Black students' achievement ideologies and…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Black Colleges, Student Attitudes