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Kamarova, Sviatlana; Chatzisarantis, Nikos L. D.; Hagger, Martin S.; Lintunen, Taru; Hassandra, Mary; Papaioannou, Athanasios – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Background: Previous prospective studies have documented that mastery-approach goals are adaptive because they facilitate less negative psychological responses to unfavourable social comparisons than performance-approach goals. Aims: This study aimed to confirm this so-called "mastery goal advantage" effect experimentally. Methods: A…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mastery Learning, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement
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Bitler, Marianne; Domina, Thurston; Penner, Emily; Hoynes, Hilary – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
We use quantile treatment effects estimation to examine the consequences of the random-assignment New York City School Choice Scholarship Program across the distribution of student achievement. Our analyses suggest that the program had negligible and statistically insignificant effects across the skill distribution. In addition to contributing to…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Case Studies
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Žácok, L'ubomir – Informatics in Education, 2010
The utilization of hypertext educational material is going to be solved in this paper as a source using which the effectiveness of education the technical subjects at the 7th grade of elementary school can be increased. As a comparison between reached results in the control and experimental groups of pupils we used final didactical examination,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Education, Hypermedia, Grade 7
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Dulama, Maria Eliza; Alexandru, Diana; Vanea, Cornelia – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2010
Our purpose is to offer children tasks so they can make drawings as diverse and different from each other whilst trying to avoid imitation. Achieving this goal involves the increase of children's creativity. The paper is theoretically based on the consideration of creativity as the ability to create "something new, original, and in accordance…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Creativity, Childrens Art, Freehand Drawing