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Yi, Hui; Tian, Lili; Huebner, E. Scott – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2020
Based on the self-system model of motivational development, we examined the mediating role of school engagement, including cognitive engagement and behavioral engagement, in accounting for the relation between mastery goal orientations and subjective well-being in school among elementary school students. A total of 974 Chinese children (440…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Behavior, Mastery Learning, Goal Orientation
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Rawlings, Anna Maria; Tapola, Anna; Niemivirta, Markku – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2020
Students' goal strivings are known to be connected with important outcomes, both academically and with regard to individual well-being. In spite of their importance, our knowledge of factors contributing to their early development is rather limited. In this longitudinal study on school beginners (N = 212), we focused on the interrelationships…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Correlation, Academic Achievement, Mastery Learning
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Wan, Han; Zhong, Zihao; Tang, Lina; Gao, Xiaopeng – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2023
Small private online courses (SPOCs) have influenced teaching and learning in China's higher education. Learning management systems (LMSs) are important components in SPOCs. They can collect various data related to student behavior and support pedagogical interventions. This research used feature engineering and nearest neighbor smoothing models…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learning Management Systems, Higher Education, Student Behavior
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Porter, Tenelle; Molina, Diego Catalán; Blackwell, Lisa; Roberts, Sylvia; Quirk, Abigail; Duckworth, Angela L.; Trzesniewski, Kali – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2020
Mastery behaviours -- seeking out challenging tasks and continuing to work on them despite difficulties -- are integral to achievement but difficult to measure with precision. The current study reports on the development and validation of the computer-based persistence, effort, resilience, and challenge-seeking (PERC) task in two demographically…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Resilience (Psychology), Difficulty Level, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Petrovic-Dzerdz, Maristela – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Recent findings have provided strong evidence that retrieval-based learning is an effective strategy for enhancing knowledge retention and long-term meaningful learning, but it is not a preferred learning strategy for the majority of students. The present research analyzes the application of learning gamification principles in online, open-book,…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Learning Strategies, Game Based Learning, Multiple Choice Tests
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
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Wang, Ming-Te – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
The present study used an ecological framework to examine the relationships among adolescents' perceptions of school climate, social competence, and behavioral and psychological adjustment in the middle school years. This study improved upon prior studies by using "structural equation modeling" to investigate the hypothesized mediating…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Structural Equation Models, Early Adolescents, Error of Measurement