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Chengchen Li; Li Wei; Xiaojun Lu – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The study investigated the effect of task complexity (TC) on second language (L2) learners' affective responses and writing performance and how these were modulated by cognitive and affective individual difference (ID) factors. A total of 412 Chinese 8th-grade English-as-a-foreign-language learners completed a working memory (WM) test, a scale…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Foreign Countries
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Aakash A. Chowkase; Ophélie Allyssa Desmet; Kshama Datar; Ashwini Deshpande; Sandhya Khasnis – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2024
This study explored the affective outcomes students perceived from participating in a summer program and the program components that contributed to participants' perceived affective development. Participants were 55 middle school students (29 girls) with intellectual gifts who participated in a 4-day-long residential program conducted in a western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Outcomes of Education, Summer Programs
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Zhang, Zhengyan; Chen, Ying-Chih; He, Guangxi; She, Hsiao-Ching; Chen, Jhih-Cheng – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2023
This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable instrument, the Mental Images of Scientists Questionnaire (MISQ), and use the instrument to examine Chinese students' mental images of scientists' characters across school levels, regions, living settings, and gender. The final version of the MISQ consisted of four constructs: scientists' cognitive,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Visualization
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Chamberlin, Scott A.; Parks, Kelly – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2020
The study was a comparison of general students of promise affect and mathematical students of promise affect after doing a mathematical modeling activity. Participants? gender (n=160), in grades 7-8, were nearly equal in number (81 girls & 79 boys). After completing a Model-eliciting Activity (MEA) in groups of three, participants completed…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models, Comparative Analysis