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Falcon, Samuel; Leon, Jaime – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
Gathering information from students' answers to open-ended questions helps to assess the quality of teachers' practices and its relations with students' motivation. The present study aimed to use sentiment analysis, an artificial intelligence-based tool, to examine students' responses to open-ended questions about their teacher's communication.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship, Student Motivation
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Yeo, Jun-Hui; Cho, I.-Hsuan; Hwang, Gwo-Haur; Yang, Hsi-Hsun – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
Gender and prior knowledge may affect students' performance and motivation when simulations and games are used for learning. Accommodations should be made for students of different genders and with different levels of prior knowledge. A simulation digital game about the food chain concept geared for elementary school students was developed for…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Prior Learning, Food, Biology
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Mayer, Richard E. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
This commentary reviews seven papers that study motivation with new media, contained in this special issue of "Educational Technology Research & Development" edited by Ruth Small. For each paper, this commentary summarizes exemplary contributions, offers an assessment of what is exciting, and suggests directions for future research. Some exciting…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Educational Technology, Educational Research, Motivation Techniques
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Sansone, Carol; Fraughton, Tamra; Zachary, Joseph L.; Butner, Jonathan; Heiner, Cecily – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
Successful online students must learn and maintain motivation to learn. The Self-regulation of Motivation (SRM) model (Sansone and Thoman 2005) suggests two kinds of motivation are essential: Goals-defined (i.e., value and expectancy of learning), and experience-defined (i.e., whether interesting). The Regulating Motivation and Performance Online…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Motivation, Online Courses, Learning Motivation
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Renninger, K. Ann; Cai, Ming; Lewis, Mark C.; Adams, Margot M.; Ernst, Katherine L. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
As hypermedia, online teacher professional development (TPD) should ideally support diverse learners to work with online content effectively because it involves multiple representations and a nonlinear format. Differences among participants in motivation and learning provide challenges for design. The present study is a use-inspired, mixed-method…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Hypermedia, Profiles
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Wang, Shiang-Kwei; Reeves, Thomas C. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2006
Collaborating closely with a 10th-grade science teacher, we designed a Web-based learning environment (Web-LE) to improve student motivation to learn science. Factors believed to enhance intrinsic motivation (challenge, control, curiosity, and fantasy) were integrated into the instructional design of the Web-based learning tool. The Web-LE was…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Grade 10, Research Methodology, Student Motivation
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Means, Tammy Babe; And Others – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1997
This study compared the effects of intrinsic relevance with embedded, extrinsic relevance-enhancing strategies based on the ARCS (attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction) model of instruction on perceived motivation and the learning outcomes of identification, terminology, comprehension, and drawing. Both intrinsic and extrinsic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Higher Education