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Bembenutty, Hefer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
The ability to delay gratification is the cornerstone of all academic achievement and education. It is by delaying gratification that learners can pursue long-term academic and career goals. In general, "delay of gratification" refers to an individual's ability to forgo immediate rewards for the sake of more valuable ones later (Mischel, 1996).…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Academic Achievement, College Students, Student Motivation
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Bembenutty, Hefer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
This chapter highlights the major contributions of this volume on self-regulation of learning and provides new directions for cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work that could serve to facilitate self-regulation of learning in postsecondary education. "Self-regulation of learning" refers to learners' beliefs about their ability to engage in…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Learning, Self Control, Self Efficacy
Bembenutty, Hefer – Online Submission, 2006
The present study examined whether the association between teachers' self-efficacy beliefs and academic performance is mediated by their homework's self-efficacy beliefs and use of self-regulatory learning strategies. Path analyses were conducted. The final model revealed that teachers' self-efficacy beliefs have an indirect effect on their…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Homework, Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy
Bembenutty, Hefer – Online Submission, 2007
Successful learners are those who engage in self-regulation of learning by using learning strategies to secure task completion. They exercise behavioral control to not only choose or plan valuable academic tasks, but also to maintain motivation and intention in the light of distracting alternatives. It was expected that teachers' self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Preservice Teachers, Learning Strategies, Delay of Gratification
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Bembenutty, Hefer; Karabenick, Stuart A. – Educational Psychology Review, 2004
We review the association between delay of gratification and future time perspective (FTP), which can be incorporated within the theoretical perspective of self-regulation of learning. We propose that delay of gratification in academic contexts, along with facilitative beliefs about the future, increase the likelihood of completing academic tasks.…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Futures (of Society), Time Perspective, Academic Achievement
Bembenutty, Hefer – Online Submission, 2005
This study examined the predictive association between gender, ethnicity, and homework parental involvement, self-regulated learning processes, and motivational beliefs among 10th grade high school students. It was predicted that students' motivational beliefs and self-regulatory processes would be significant predictors of students' math academic…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Standardized Tests