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Olanrewaju P. Olaogun; Nathaniel J. Hunsu – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Students have misconceptions about many scientific topics they encounter in the classroom--such misconceptions are especially rife in subjects with counterintuitive concepts. Several studies have copiously documented students' misconceptions in different science domains. Research shows that students' misconceptions can be resistant to change and…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Engineering Education, Misconceptions
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Yang, Yan – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2021
Student resistance is inevitable in the process of multicultural education, but few researchers have explored the dynamics of student motivation. The purpose of this study was to help bridging the gap between motivation and multicultural education by examining the value and cost beliefs of college students in diversity learning, and how those…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Student Motivation
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Darnon, Céline; Jury, Mickaël; Aelenei, Cristina – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2018
Although approach forms of achievement goals (mastery and performance goals) have been shown to predict academic achievement in college, recent research underscores that these associations are rather weak and not consistently observed. The present study tests students' social class (in the present research, generational status) as a moderator of…
Descriptors: Social Class, Mastery Learning, Performance, Grades (Scholastic)
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Granero-Gallegos, Antonio; Carrasco-Poyatos, María – Education Sciences, 2020
The aim of this study was to provide evidence of the validity and reliability of the dimensionality of the Spanish adaptation of two correlated subscales to assess motivational climate in the university education context: Mastery motivational climate and performance motivational climate. Two different studies with cross-sectional design and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Student Motivation
Dansby-Giles, Gloria; Edwards, Anthony; Dansby, Jacqueline; Giles, Frank L.; Edwards, J. T. – Online Submission, 2018
As student enrollment has taken a center place in higher education, faculty and administrators are concerned about student retention and success in traditional face-to-face, online and blended courses. This presentation will explore the implications of data mining for predicting relationships between information contained within a learning…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Mastery Learning, Accreditation (Institutions), Academic Standards
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McGillicuddy, Kara T.; McGloin, Rory – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2018
As a result of the ever-growing list of course technologies and software programs, higher education faculty and administration often debate which new tools are most valuable to students. This article investigates whether the use of an online textbook supplemental program ("MindTap"®) has a positive influence on student performance. The…
Descriptors: Supplementary Reading Materials, Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Instructional Effectiveness
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Lin, Xi – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2019
As the number of enrolled international ESL students in the US institutions increases rapidly, it is important to understand these students' goal orientations and learning strategies in order to help them achieve the academic goals. Therefore, this study examines the relationship between achievement goal orientations and self-regulated learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Goal Orientation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Dompnier, Benoît; Darnon, Céline; Meier, Emanuele; Brandner, Catherine; Smeding, Annique; Butera, Fabrizio – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
Recent research has shown that, in a university context, mastery goals are highly valued and that students may endorse these goals either because they believe in their utility (i.e., social utility), in which case mastery goals are positively linked to achievement, or to create a positive image of themselves (i.e., social desirability), in which…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Mastery Learning, Goal Orientation, College Students
Raska, David – Journal of Marketing Education, 2014
This research explores and tests the effect of an innovative performance feedback practice--feedback supplemented with web-based peer benchmarking--through a lens of social cognitive framework for self-regulated learning. The results suggest that providing performance feedback with references to exemplary peer output is positively associated with…
Descriptors: Marketing, Business Administration Education, Feedback (Response), Benchmarking
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Matthews, Wendy K.; Kitsantas, Anastasia – Psychology of Music, 2013
This study examined the effects of the conductor's goal orientation (mastery vs. performance) and use of shared performance cues (basic vs. interpretive vs. expressive) on instrumentalists' self-efficacy, collective efficacy, attributions, and performance. Eighty-one college instrumentalists from two musical ensembles participated in the study. It…
Descriptors: College Students, Music, Music Activities, Musical Instruments
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Silverman, Loretta H.; Seidman, Alan – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2012
The majority of college students are not ready for college-level math courses, which, when completed, have been shown to increase graduation and transfer rates. To address this problem, the Math My Way (MMW) program was developed to integrate module-based curriculum and mastery learning approaches. The program is based on Seidman's retention…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Mastery Learning
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Svanum, Soren; Aigner, Carrie – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Background: The positive relation between course grades and student ratings of course satisfaction is well established but controversy continues concerning the magnitude, interpretation, and implications of this association. Aims: This study examined the within course relations of a set of variables often implicated as potential contributors to…
Descriptors: College Students, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Correlation
Yukhymenko, Mariya A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explored patterns of the ethical conduct of collegiate students in academic and athletic domains employing social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986, 1997) using non-experimental, comparative and correlational designs. The study explored response patterns on anonymous surveys between varsity (N = 1151) and non-varsity (N = 227)…
Descriptors: Ethics, Athletics, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement
Salili, Farideh, Ed.; Hoosain, Rumjahn, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
The influence of culture on learning and motivation has been the topic of much research in recent years. Educational and psychological researchers are now aware that the findings of their studies may not apply to other cultures, and that in this age of globalization and multiculturalism it is very important to examine the applicability of…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Learning, Motivation
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Burton, Nancy W.; Wang, Ming-mei – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
GRE verbal and quantitative scores and undergraduate grade point average were evaluated as predictors of multiple measures of long-term graduate school success. The measures of success were cumulative graduate grade point average and faculty ratings on three student characteristics: mastery of the discipline, professional productivity, and…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Predictor Variables, Success