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Direct linkWiles, Benjamin; Levesque-Bristol, Chantal – School Science and Mathematics, 2023
This study examines the relationships among students' perceptions of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, self-determined motivation, and achievement across two different undergraduate Calculus learning environments at the same institution. Furthermore, it also exposits how learning environments are not culturally or socially neutral by…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Personal Autonomy, Competence, Self Determination
Searby, Patricia F. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The unprecedented shift to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique opportunity to research adult English language learners' lived experiences of online learning and motivations for persistence. With the growing trend of offering online learning to adult learners and concerns over the high attrition rates associated with…
Descriptors: Adult Students, English Language Learners, Student Experience, Electronic Learning
Download full textÖzkan, Batuhan; Tekeli, Fatma Noyan – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) engagement, as a multidimensional construct, plays an increasingly important role in education. The main purpose of this research was to explore the effects of ICT engagement factors on science performance across Singapore and Turkey conditional to the sufficient degree of measurement invariance of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Cultural Differences
Ustun, Ulas – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
This study examines the direct and indirect relationships between key motivational constructs and science achievement using TIMSS 2019 data sets for Japan, Norway, and the United States. The sample of the study includes 4,446 and 8,698 eighth graders in Japan and the United States, with 4,575 ninth graders in Norway. The structural equation model…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Prediction, Science Achievement, Cultural Differences
Wei, Yan; Hovey, Katrina A.; Gerzel-Short, Lydia; Miller, Rhonda D.; Kelly, Jerae; Hsiao, Yun-Ju – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2022
Self-determination is considered critical in motivation and the development of student learning. However, students with disabilities often struggle to develop self-determination skills, particularly those from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds. Understanding the relationships between cultural values and self-determination in…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Students with Disabilities, Cultural Differences, Language Usage
Holzer, Julia; Lüftenegger, Marko; Korlat, Selma; Pelikan, Elisabeth; Salmela-Aro, Katariina; Spiel, Christiane; Schober, Barbara – AERA Open, 2021
In the wake of COVID-19, university students have experienced fundamental changes of their learning and their lives as a whole. The present research identifies psychological characteristics associated with students' well-being in this situation. We investigated relations of basic psychological need satisfaction (experienced competence, autonomy,…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Needs, Competence, Predictor Variables
Hofer, Jan; Busch, Holger; Au, Alma; Polácková Šolcová, Iva; Tavel, Peter; Tsien Wong, Teresa – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The present study examines the association between various facets of generativity, that is, cultural demand for generativity, generative concern, and generative action, with the satisfaction of the needs for relatedness, competence, and autonomy in samples of elderly from Cameroon, China (Hong Kong), the Czech Republic, and Germany. Participants…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Need Gratification, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies
OECD Publishing, 2020
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines what students know in reading, mathematics and science, and what they can do with what they know. It provides the most comprehensive and rigorous international assessment of student learning outcomes to date. Results from PISA indicate the quality and equity of learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Money Management, Socioeconomic Influences
Derderian-Aghajanian, Ani – International Education Studies, 2010
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?" (Albert Einstein). In "Diversity Issues in Special Education: Theory, Research, and Practice" I will define the diversity perspectives within the context of research, then I will develop an understanding and understand theory as it is related to…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Special Education, Disabilities, Race
Cheung, Cecilia Sin-Sze; Pomerantz, Eva M. – Child Development, 2011
This research examined parents' involvement in children's learning in the United States and China. Beginning in seventh grade, 825 American and Chinese children (mean age = 12.74 years) reported on their parents' involvement in their learning as well as their parents' psychological control and autonomy support every 6 months until the end of 8th…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Parent School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Grade 8
Rodriguez, Raymond J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Considerable research exists on the importance of self-determination in the transition of students with disabilities from high school. Much of this research has focused on conditions in the family that may nurture and support the development of self-determined motivation. These conditions, as described by Self-Determination Theory, include support…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Disabilities, Urban Schools, Effect Size
Orenstein, Peggy – 1994
A survey conducted by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) polled 3,000 boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 15 years regarding their attitudes toward self, school, family, and friends. Results confirmed that the passage into adolescence is marked by a girl's loss of confidence in herself and her abilities. The AAUW discovered…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anglo Americans, Beliefs, Body Image
