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Coffin, R. J.; MacIntyre, P. D. – Computers in Human Behavior, 1999
This study of college students examined the effects of motivation to learn to use computers, and previous experience with computers, on three computer-related affective states: anxiety, attitudes, and self-efficacy. Discusses gender differences, path analysis, effects on academic performance, and intrinsic versus extrinsic reasons for taking the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, College Students, Computer Anxiety
Hernandez-Gantes, Victor M. – 1995
A structural model of school learning was tested to examine both direct and indirect influences of previous grades, quality of instruction, motivation, quantity of instruction, and homework on Hispanic-American eighth-grade students' academic achievement, while controlling for background variables. The model was analyzed with path analytic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Quality, Grade 8, Grades (Scholastic)
Woo, Jeong-Ho, Ed.; Lew, Hee-Chan, Ed.; Park, Kyo-Sik, Ed.; Seo, Dong-Yeop, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2007
This fourth and final volume of the 31st annual proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference presents research reports for author surnames beginning Na- through Zod-. Reports include: (1) Mathematically Gifted Students' Problem Solving Approaches on Conditional Probability (GwiSoo Na, DaeHee Han,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Teacher Characteristics, Academically Gifted, Semantics
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Watkins, David; Gutierrez, Myrna – Journal of Social Psychology, 1990
Examines path-analytic models linking measures of self-concept, attributions, and grades of 194 Filipino high school students. Finds attributions for successful outcomes to ability or effort mediated the causal relationship between achievement and self-esteem. Interprets negative paths from ability attributions for success in mathematics to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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Chen, Michael; Ehrenberg, Tamar – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993
Effects of aspirations, homework, and scores on standardized tests (endogenous variables) on teachers' grades and effects of exogenous variables of socioeconomic status and gender on endogenous variables were studied for 753 Israeli elementary school students. Complex effects are discussed. Teachers tended to grade students properly, according to…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, Elementary Education
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Cheung, K. C. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993
Results are presented of an evaluation of effects of the within-classroom component of the Second International Science Study on science learning processes and products at the twelfth-grade level in Hong Kong. Partial Least Squares Path (PLSPATH) analysis is used to model the data obtained from 6,103 students in 217 classrooms. (SLD)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Grade 12
Keith, Timothy Z. – 1989
Causal path analysis was used to determine the direct and indirect influences of intellectual ability, quality of instruction, achievement motivation, quantity of academic coursework, and time spent on homework on high school students' learning, as measured by their grade point averages (GPAs). Other relevant influences on grades were controlled.…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Ethnicity, Grade Point Average, Grade 10
Bean, John P. – 1981
A model of student attrition was synthesized from psychological, sociological, and educational sources, and contains six sets of variables: background, organizational, personal, environmental, attitudinal, and intent to leave. The model was tested with 1,909 full-time and unmarried university freshmen at a major midwestern university. The sample…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Environment, College Freshmen, Decision Making
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Skinner, Ellen A.; Belmont, Michael J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1993
Effects of the involvement, classroom structure, and autonomy support of 14 teachers on the behavioral and emotional engagement of 144 third through fifth graders were studied across a school year. Results suggest that behaviorally disengaged students receive teacher responses that should further undermine motivation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Techniques, Correlation, Elementary Education
Boughan, Karl – 1997
To track student progress and develop a model of the total academic process at Prince George's Community College (PGCC), the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis acquired 5 years of background, behavioral, and outcome data for a cohort of first-time students entering the college. The academic process was broken down into three divisions:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Career Guidance, Cluster Analysis
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