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Lindokuhle Soyikwa; Sakyiwaa Boateng – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
Our study investigates the challenges encountered by learners and teachers of physical sciences in rural schools, specifically in the Joe Gqabi district of South Africa. We utilised self-study and constructivism theories in rural settings to examine the complex challenges for physical sciences in rural schools. In an interpretivist qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, High School Teachers, High School Students
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Hang, Le Thuy; Van, Vu Hong – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2020
Building a teaching and learning strategy is an essential task for both lecturers and students. Innovation in methods and forms of teaching and learning, and in conducting examination and evaluation are in the direction of developing and promoting students' creativity. However, not all lecturers and students deeply understand and effectively use…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Instructional Innovation, Creativity
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Csizér, Kata; Kontra, Edit H. – Modern Language Journal, 2020
The aim of this study was to investigate deaf and severely hard-of-hearing students' foreign language learning characteristics. In order to provide a better understanding of the challenges this group of learners face, a mixed methods study was designed including a questionnaire survey to provide generalizable results for our context and an…
Descriptors: Deafness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Motivation
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Callan, Gregory L.; Shim, Serena S. – Teacher Educator, 2019
The first step for teachers to be efficacious in teaching self-regulated learning (SRL) in their classroom(s) is to have clear understandings of what constitutes SRL and when to use it. This study examined how K-12 teachers (N = 128, 73% female, predominantly Caucasian) define SRL and identify students with deficient SRL by examining their…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Elementary School Teachers
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Dignath, Charlotte; Büttner, Gerhard – Metacognition and Learning, 2018
Self-regulated learning has a positive effect on academic outcomes; however, little is known about whether and how teachers at various education levels promote it in their classes. Video-based classroom observations were conducted to assess primary and secondary school mathematics teachers' direct and indirect promotion of self-regulated learning…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Strategies, Video Technology
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Du, Shengnan – English Language Teaching, 2021
With a development history of more than half a century, the learner-centered approach has become a new teaching paradigm worldwide. The approach can produce effective and significant learning focusing on learners' development, learning, and learning outcomes. This study aimed to determine how a learner-centered approach can increase students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Centered Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mustajab; Baharun, Hasan; Fawa'iedah, Zakiyah – Online Submission, 2020
This study aims to analyze self-regulated learning in Islamic education amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This study incorporates a qualitative approach to understand self-regulated learning at Miftahul Ulum Islamic High School, East Java. The data collection techniques consist of teachers' interviews, teaching and learning observation, and…
Descriptors: Religious Schools, Islam, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Duarte, José; Robert Nogueira, João – Education Sciences, 2019
This paper presents protests from academically successful students who privately conveyed to the researchers their feelings of personal discontent with schools. The criterion to select this "sample" was that these students, dissatisfied with school but having good marks, would reveal what others, academically less successful, could not…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods
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Rothes, Ana; Lemos, Marina S.; Gonçalves, Teresa – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2017
This study investigated profiles of autonomous and controlled motivation and their effects in a sample of 188 adult learners from two Portuguese urban areas. Using a person-centered approach, results of cluster analysis and multivariate analysis of covariance revealed four motivational groups with different effects in self-efficacy, engagement,…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Learning Strategies, Independent Study, Profiles
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Chen, Xiaosu; Vibulphol, Jutarat – International Education Studies, 2019
Based on Self-determination theory, learners' motivation can be enhanced when the psychological needs--competence, autonomy, and relatedness--are satisfied (Ryan & Deci, 2017). In English as a second language classrooms, teachers can play an important role in this; however, their motivational strategies may be influenced by their beliefs and…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Learning Motivation, Psychological Needs, Personal Autonomy
Almusharraf, Norah Mansour – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation examines how English language learners in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) realize learner autonomy, especially in the context of the learner's meaning development via purposeful vocabulary acquisition. This project is a qualitative case study that engages both teachers and English learners as subjects over a prolonged period of…
Descriptors: Females, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Arnold, Bradley A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to develop descriptions of how teenage students remain engaged in learning while using mobile technology. Developments in technology have expanded learning contexts and provided learners with improved capacities to connect with others to exchange, gain, and construct knowledge. Developments in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Telecommunications, Learning Activities, Qualitative Research
Auten, Marianne Adams – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Current research shows that students with a growth mindset are more motivated to learn, want to work harder, are less discouraged by difficulty, use more effective strategies for learning, and have higher academic performance in comparison to students without this mindset. Despite these promising findings, a growth mindset is sometimes not…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies
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Sen, Senol; Yilmaz, Ayhan – Science Education International, 2016
The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between preservice teachers' time and study environment management, effort regulation, self-efficacy beliefs, control of learning beliefs and metacognitive self-regulation. This study also investigates the direct and indirect effects of metacognitive self-regulation on time and study…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Self Control
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Higgins-Opitz, Susan B.; Tufts, Mark – Advances in Physiology Education, 2012
The student body at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine (NRMSM) is very diverse, representing many cultures, religions, and languages. Research has shown that weakness in English can impact student performance. Recent studies have also highlighted sex-based differences in students' learning and listening styles. These factors pose both…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Medical Schools, Multilingualism
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