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In-Group and Role Identity Influences on the Initiation and Maintenance of Students' Voluntary Attendance at Peer Study Sessions for Statistics
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White, Katherine M.; O'Connor, Erin L.; Hamilton, Kyra – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Background: Although class attendance is linked to academic performance, questions remain about what determines students' decisions to attend or miss class. Aims: In addition to the constructs of a common decision-making model, the theory of planned behaviour, the present study examined the influence of student role identity and university student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Maintenance, Correlation, Academic Achievement
Are Common Sense Decisions Deterring Learning?
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Clifford, M. M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
The comparison of data from two vocabulary-learning studies involving a total of 2,483 males and females in the fifth and sixth grades suggests that "common sense" decisions regarding the selection and assignment of learning materials may be ineffecient if not detrimental. (Editor)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes, Psychological Studies
Redundancy in the Concept Attainment of Adolescents
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Singleton, C. H. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
The production of informationally redundant choices in a selection concept attainment task was investigated in relation to age and intelligence, using 62 adolescents aged 12:7--15:6 drawn from the lower middle ability range of a comprehensive school. (Editor)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Concept Formation, Decision Making, Educational Psychology