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Huan Li; Qinghui Hou; Ren Mu; Yating Wang; Yating Yang – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
Although research on team performance-prove goal orientation (TPPGO) has flourished, there remains a scarcity of studies investigating its impact on individual performance. Drawing upon transactional stress theory, our study aims to explore the dual nature of the influence exerted by TPPGO on employee creative performance. Employing a multi-level…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Job Performance, Goal Orientation, Individual Differences
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Chih-Hung Wu; Kai-Di Tang; Kang-Lin Peng; Yueh-Min Huang; Chih-Hsing Liu – Educational Psychology, 2024
Cognitive styles and affective factors are critical factors affecting e-learning performance in this digital era. Learners can enhance their affective learning with a correct cognitive style. This study aims to examine various cognitive styles with effective learning measurement tools through subjective and objective instruments by observing…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
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Almaz Mesghina; Elayne Vollman; Kelly Trezise; Lindsey Engle Richland – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
We investigated whether worked examples could be used to reduce cognitive load on mathematics learners who may have reduced available cognitive resources due to experiencing anxiety or excess stress. Across 2 days, 280 fifth-grade students learned from a difficult lesson on ratio, half of whom reviewed worked examples at key problem-solving…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Grade 5, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Anxiety
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Lamb, Richard; Hoston, Douglas; Lin, Jing; Firestone, Jonah – Research in Science Education, 2022
The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of persistence within STEM learning environments as a function of cumulative stress and latent trauma. The biopsychosocial impact of prolonged stressors due to hostile environments and academic demands has deleterious health effects on historically underrepresented students who enter STEM…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Academic Persistence, STEM Education
Michael James Davila – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The study aimed to achieve two main objectives: first, to investigate the presence and nature of emotional labor within student affairs; and second, to explore the correlations between emotional labor and both individual and organizational well-being among student affairs professionals. This research examines the intricate interconnections between…
Descriptors: Well Being, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Experience, Student Personnel Workers
Almaz Mesghina; Elayne Vollman; Kelly Trezise; Lindsey Engle Richland – Grantee Submission, 2023
We investigated whether worked examples could be used to reduce cognitive load on mathematics learners who may have reduced available cognitive resources due to experiencing anxiety or excess stress. Across 2 days, 280 fifth-grade students learned from a difficult lesson on ratio, half of whom reviewed worked examples at key problem-solving…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Grade 5, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Anxiety
Lina Anaya; Nagore Iriberri; Pedro Rey-Biel; Gema Zamarro – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Standardized assessments are widely used to determine access to educational resources with important consequences for later economic outcomes in life. However, many design features of the tests themselves may lead to psychological reactions influencing performance. In particular, the level of difficulty of the earlier questions in a test may…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Wiseness, Test Items, Difficulty Level
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Wass, Rob; Timmermans, Julie; Harland, Tony; McLean, Angela – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Despite many articles written about assessment in higher education, surprisingly few have examined students' emotional responses to assessment and their perceptions of this impact on their learning experiences and well-being. This article reports on a study using in-depth interviews with 40 undergraduate students who were frequently graded. A…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Student Reaction, Higher Education, Student Welfare
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Tabrizi, Yasin Farshchi; Sheikholeslami, Razie – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
Classroom structure includes organizing and designing the class. Based on the theory of achievement, the context and structure of the educational environment affect student's performance, motivation, and emotion. The present study was conducted to find out whether the perception of classroom structure can predict mental health of the students? The…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Adolescents
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Kärner, Tobias; Minkley, Nina; Rausch, Andreas; Schley, Thomas; Sembill, Detlef – Vocations and Learning, 2018
By adapting the job demands-resources model of Demerouti et al. "Journal of Applied Psychology," 86(3), 499-512, (2001) to vocational problem-solving situations, we aimed to investigate how, and to what extent, problem-solving demands and personal resources affect stress responses and task interest. Therefore, we used a problem-solving…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Problem Solving, Computer Simulation, Educational Technology
Karaman, Fatma – Online Submission, 2020
Compulsory second foreign language phenomenon has emerged in Turkey in the near term. German was made compulsory as the second foreign language in Anatolian high schools in the academic year 2012-2013. As with the first foreign language teaching, there are also problems with the second foreign language teaching. The revealing of the problems in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language
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Berenson, Mark L.; Ramnarayanan, Renu; Oppenheim, Alan – Journal of Education for Business, 2015
In an institutional review board--approved study aimed at evaluating differences in learning between a large-sized introductory business statistics course section using courseware assisted examinations compared with small-sized sections using traditional paper-and-pencil examinations, there appeared to be a severe disconnect between the final…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Business Administration Education, Introductory Courses
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Martínez-Sierra, Gustavo; García-González, María del Socorro – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016
Little is known about students' emotions in the field of Mathematics Education that go beyond students' emotions in problem solving. To start filling this gap this qualitative research has the aim to identify emotional experiences of undergraduate mathematics students in Linear Algebra courses. In order to obtain data, retrospective focus group…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Emotional Response, Algebra, College Mathematics
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Suldo, Shannon M.; Shaunessy-Dedrick, Elizabeth – Psychology in the Schools, 2013
This cross-sectional study determined whether students who take part in academically challenging high school curricula experience elevated levels of stress and whether this stress co-occurs with psychological and/or academic problems. Data from self-report questionnaires and school records were collected from 480 students from four high schools.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Standards, Difficulty Level, Stress Variables
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Park, Minsoo – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2013
Introduction: This study aims to understand the interactions of perception, effort, emotion, time and performance during the performance of multiple information tasks using Web information technologies. Method: Twenty volunteers from a university participated in this study. Questionnaires were used to obtain general background information and…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Man Machine Systems, Computer Interfaces, Difficulty Level
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