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Landwehr, Barbara; Weisseno, Georg – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2016
Very little research has been conducted on the contribution of political education to learning progress in Germany. Hence, there is a need for intervention studies measuring performance against the theoretical background of a political competence model. This model comprises three constructs: subject knowledge, motivation and attitudes. According…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Problem Solving, Skill Development, Politics
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Vollmeyer, Regina; Rheinberg, Falko – Learning and Instruction, 2000
Studied the relationships among motivation, persistence, and performance in a sample of 51 German college students. Path analysis showed that initial motivation influenced persistence but that the relationship between persistence and performance was disrupted because learners with more knowledge stopped sooner. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Knowledge Level