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Bea Mertens; Sven De Maeyer; Vincent Donche – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Research on learning strategies and learning motivation in different educational contexts has provided valuable insights, but in this field, low-educated adults remain an understudied population. This study addresses this gap by means of a person-oriented approach and seeks to investigate whether quantitatively and qualitatively different learner…
Descriptors: Profiles, Student Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Adults
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Rubén Camacho-Sánchez; Jorge Serna Bardavío; Aaron Rillo-Albert; Pere Lavega-Burgués – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This study assessed the effects of an educational intervention grounded in gamified game-based learning on attention, relevance, confidence, satisfaction, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, as well as academic performance, utilizing the ARCS motivational design model. This study involved 384 undergraduates across three physical activity and sport…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Academic Achievement, Gamification, Game Based Learning
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Jia-Ying Lee – SAGE Open, 2024
This research was a quasi-experiment that examined the effects of CLIL in an educational context in Taiwan's higher education. Two groups of first-year undergraduate students were involved. One (65 students) was taught with CLIL; the other (59), the conventional approach. Their knowledge of the content and learning attitudes (self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning
Peter Pavlis – Online Submission, 2025
This quantitative, quasi-experimental study aimed to propose research-based AI constructivist learning activities by measuring students' self-perceptions of their critical thinking using the Motivational Strategies and Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ). The study utilized the input-experience-output framework to evaluate how these learning pursuits…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, Constructivism (Learning), Learning Activities
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Erika M. Nadile; Gregory Vaughan; Naomi L. B. Wernick – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Grades in introductory STEM courses can impact intrinsic motivation (IM) and self-efficacy (SE). We used an exploratory approach to examine trends in grades and how IM and SE impact students' grades. It is known that most first-generation (FG) college students are from underrepresented backgrounds (URM), and that these students are least likely to…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Biology, Science Instruction, First Generation College Students
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Lin Sophie Teng – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study examines the predictive effects of motivational beliefs and self-efficacy on multiple dimensions of self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. Undergraduate students (n = 389) were recruited voluntarily from four universities in mainland China. They were invited to complete a set of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Metacognition, Goal Orientation, Predictor Variables