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Haitham Alkhateeb – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2025
This study used the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) to assess the motivation and learning strategies of students in a self-paced developmental mathematics class. A total of 194 undergraduate students participated in this study. Descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, and regression analysis were conducted to assess…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning Strategies, Developmental Studies Programs, Mathematics Instruction
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Wu Juan; Wu Lei; Yuan Huanhuan; Yang Dongfang – SAGE Open, 2025
This study elucidates how information processing and self-questioning strategies are used in the context of online flipped teaching. A 6-week quasi experimental study was conducted to investigate online flipped teaching with the goal of exploring the impacts of two learning strategies, that is, annotation-summarizing-questioning (ASQ) and concept…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Student Motivation, Electronic Learning, Flipped Classroom
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Garry Bryn Hobbs; Sandie Mourão – ELT Journal, 2025
This article reports on an intervention study conducted to improve young Thai learners' motivation and attitudes towards take-home tests. The traditional use of summative tests in education has often led to increased pressure and demotivation among students. Based on formative assessment practices and motivational strategies, the study aimed to…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries
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Shuhou Yuan – SAGE Open, 2025
Conducting a survey research on demotivating factors in business English majors can enrich the theoretical research findings on demotivation and meanwhile help to explore effective methods to enhance the students' learning motivation. This study explores the construct of demotivating factors in business English majors in a Chinese university, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Majors (Students)
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S. S. Prakash; N. Muthuraman – Discover Education, 2024
Introduction: The learning approach of undergraduate medical students can be influenced by motivations toward learning medicine as well as perceived outcomes such as their specialty preference in the future. In this study, we analyze the relationships between learning approach, motivation to study medicine, and factors related to their specialty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Student Motivation
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Wild, Steffen; Grassinger, Robert – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Starting a study programme at an university, students are confronted with rising requirements regulating their learning processes and motivation. Both difficulties due to this regulation and the quality of instruction are associated with students dropping out from a study programme in the research. Aims: The purpose of this research is…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Self Management, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement
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Todd Partridge; Kady Schneiter – College Teaching, 2025
After encountering students who lost motivation throughout the semester, and finding most students' questions focused on how to improve their grade rather than on understanding the material, we developed a gamified grading structure hoping to remove students' barriers to motivation in the classroom. A brief review of the literature on known…
Descriptors: Gamification, Student Motivation, Resilience (Psychology), Grading
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Meina Zhu; Sarah Berri; Rose Koda; Yi-jung Wu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The past ten years have witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of online courses, and the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly accelerated online education. Many students and instructors were unprepared for online learning. In particular, online learners are expected to employ self-directed learning (SDL) skills to succeed. This qualitative study…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Independent Study, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Zhou, Ji; Wang, Xinghua – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
Study habits can be defined as students' decisions on choosing what to learn and how to learn during their everyday learning processes. Study habits included three aspects of learning behavior: choosing learning material, adopting specific learning strategies (rereading, self-testing, and spacing), and strategy sources and changes (how strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Metacognition, Learning Strategies
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Rémi Dorgnier; Marie Mazerolle; François Maquestiaux; Laurence Picard – Journal of Educational Research, 2025
Recent studies in psychology emphasize the pivotal roles of adopting a growth mindset to enhance students' motivation and employing effective memory strategies to improve memory performance. This study evaluated the impact of a metacognitive intervention that combined the promotion of a growth mindset with the teaching of efficient learning…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Memory, Learning Strategies
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Whitehead, Mary Claire; Britson, Carol A. – HAPS Educator, 2022
Motivation is one of the keys to success in challenging courses such as human anatomy and physiology (A&P) and may occur in the form of intrinsic motivation (IM, motivation for enjoyment), extrinsic motivation (EM, motivation for reward), and/or amotivation (AM, lack of motivation). The goal of this study was to identify ways of supporting…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Anatomy, Physiology, Rewards
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Buchner, Josef – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Do generative learning strategies influence the motivational and affective factors of learning with augmented reality? This article explores this highly topical new question in the field of research on educational technology and reports the results of a value-added study that compares two mobile AR learning environments with or without additional…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Computer Simulation
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Mark Feng Teng; Junjie Gavin Wu – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Despite the large quantity of research projects about online learning, studies on students' language learning motivation, self-efficacy belief, and metacognitive strategy use in the online learning setting are limited. The present paper aims to fill this gap through assessing learners' metacognitive strategies, language learning motivation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Online Courses
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Ana Pereles; Ana Isabel Manzanal Martínez; Carmen Romero-García – Journal of Educators Online, 2024
Enrolment in master's programmes, especially online ones, has increased exponentially in recent years. This article analyses the relationship that several sociodemographic and academic variables have with motivational components, self-regulation, study approaches, and competence development in online university postgraduate students. The following…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Self Management, Learning Strategies, Online Courses
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Katrina E. Forbes-McKay; Pauline A. M. Bremner; Pamela Johnston; Carol Air – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This study addresses gaps in the existing literature on students' understanding of Independent Learning (IL), whilst exploring the link between levels of IL, growth mindset, motivated strategies for learning and academic performance. Design/methodology/approach: Three hundred and eighty-six university students recruited via opportunistic…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies
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