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Christiane Petrin Lambert – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As student enrollment in colleges across the United States continues to diversify, teaching and learning practices must keep pace with demographic shifts. The growing majority of today's college student body, dubbed post-traditional learners, is older, racially and ethnically diverse, more experienced in work and life, and stretched by competing…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Evaluation, Student Motivation, Reentry Students
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Ramis, TamilSelvan; Loh, Sau Cheong – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
As lack of interaction has been cited as a central reason for reduced academic motivation during online learning and given gratitude's crucial role in forming and maintaining interpersonal relationships, this study examined the association between gratitude and academic motivation. Recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses have found…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Need Gratification, Psychological Patterns, Student Motivation
Anas M. Alhudib – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the Saudi undergraduate educational environment, exploring relationships among teacher support, basic psychological needs satisfaction and frustration, academic motivation, and GPA. The study investigates whether basic psychological needs mediate the relationship between teacher support and academic motivation, utilizing…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Undergraduate Students, Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Rundle, Kiata; Curtis, Guy J.; Clare, Joseph – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2023
Contract cheating -- students outsourcing assignments to ghost-writers and submitting it as their own -- is an issue facing tertiary education institutions globally. Approximately 3% to 11% of higher education students may engage on contract cheating. Understanding why nearly 90% of students do "not" engage in contract cheating is as…
Descriptors: College Students, Cheating, Outsourcing, Psychological Patterns
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Akça, Figen; Demir, Sezgin – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
In recent years sleep rhythm or chronotype have become one of the most studied subjects especially in psychology and educational environments. Chronotype is an important variable in interpersonal differences and it is related to psychological and physiological differences among people. There are three main chronotypes or eveningness, morningness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Cognitive Processes, Student Motivation
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Janke, Stefan; Messerer, Laura A. S.; Daumiller, Martin – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Aims: Higher education systems around the world have enforced campus closures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Such measures may threaten students' basic psychological needs for relatedness, competence and autonomy, and the development of intrinsic learning motivation. Little is known about whether the implementation of campus closures yielded…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, School Closing, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Marianna Alesi; Giulia Giordano; Sonia Ingoglia; Cristiano Inguglia – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2024
Since COVID-19 pandemic started, schools had to face environmental changes, one was shifting from a face-to-face educational approach to online learning. It represented an unfavourable learning environment, especially for children with Specific Learning Disabilities (SpLD). Following the Self Determination Theory (SDT) framework, the current study…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Student Motivation, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
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Oram, Rylee; Rogers, Maria; DuPaul, George – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2020
Recent research has shown that undergraduate students who experience both clinical and subclinical attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) struggle academically. Furthermore, these students have cited academic amotivation as a factor in their academic difficulties. Self-determination theory (SDT) posits that a lack of motivation--known as…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation
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Quinn, Penny; McGilloway, Sinead; Burke, Jolanta – Irish Educational Studies, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt education in unprecedented ways. The first school closures in Ireland took place in March 2020, affecting many students, but especially those who were preparing for their end-of-school Leaving Certificate (LC) examinations. The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which COVID-19 had impacted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Alisaari, Jenni; Kaukko, Mervi; Heikkola, Leena Maria – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study investigated which aspects of working with multilingual students bring joy to Finnish teachers. The data was collected via an online survey from teachers working mainly in basic education in Finland. The teachers (N = 588) reported a positive stance toward multilingual learners. The greatest number of responses (44%) cited students'…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Finno Ugric Languages
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Jeong, Jin Su; González-Gómez, David; Cañada-Cañada, Florentina; Gallego-Picó, Alejandrina; Bravo, Juan Carlos – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2019
Distance education programs in higher education are gaining popularity mostly due to the flexibility of the formative programs to fit all the requirements that brick-and-mortar educational institutions are not able to provide to students. However, quite often these distance programs report feelings of isolation, lack of self-direction and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Psychological Patterns, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes
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Sharp, John G.; Hemmings, Brian; Kay, Russell; Atkin, Chris – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
Academic boredom is a largely negative and disabling achievement-related emotion. In this mixed-methods exploration of 224 students attending a single university in England, academic boredom was found to arise at the point of course delivery, while studying at other times and during the completion of assignments for assessment. Quantitative data…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Psychological Patterns, Academic Achievement, Study Skills
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Volet, Simone; Seghezzi, Cate; Ritchie, Stephen – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
The aim of the study was to explore the types and sources of positive emotions experienced by first year university students studying to become primary school teachers, during collaborative science learning. Fun science activities, designed to enhance students' motivation for science, provided the context for examining the relationship between…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Science Activities, Science Instruction, Emotional Experience
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Sieglová, Dagmar – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2019
This contribution explores motivational factors from the perspective of students in order to design an effective approach to teaching. Its purpose is twofold. First, it pinpoints findings from a student needs analysis regarding their learning in relation to today's teaching reality. Second, the findings serve as the basis for proposing a…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Kisoglu, Mustafa – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this study is to examine motivation of science high school students towards learning biology and their attitude towards biology lessons. The sample of the study consists of 564 high school students (308 females, 256 males) studying at two science high schools in Aksaray, Turkey. In the study, the relational scanning method, which is…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation
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