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Download full textBienkowski, Marie; Gerard, Sarah Nixon; Rubin, Shawn; Sanford, Cathy; Borrelli-Murray, Dana; Driscoll, Tom; Arora, Jessie; Hruska, Mike; Beck, Katie; Murray, Thomas; Hoekstra, Jason; Gannes, Stuart; Metz, Edward; Midgley, Steve; Castilla, Stephanie; Tomassini, Jason; Madda, Mary Jo; Chase, Zac; Martin, Erik; Noel, Marcus; Styles, Kathleen – Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2015
Opportunities abound for software designers and developers to create impactful tools for teachers, school leaders, students, and their families. This guide for developers, startups, and entrepreneurs addresses key questions about the education ecosystem and highlights critical needs and opportunities to develop digital tools and apps for learning.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Design, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Direct linkGreenstein, Laura – Corwin, 2012
The Common Core State Standards clearly define the skills students need for success in college and the 21st century workplace. The question is, how can you measure student mastery of skills like creativity, problem solving, and use of technology? Laura Greenstein demonstrates how teachers can teach and assess 21st century skills using authentic…
Descriptors: Creativity, State Standards, Problem Solving, Metacognition
Mendoza, Christine Daryabigi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine a possible relationship between student perceptions of parental involvement and student goal orientation for an ethnically diverse fifth grade elementary population from high-poverty schools. This study was quantitative in nature and employed the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS) to assess the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Parent Participation, Goal Orientation, Student Diversity
Peer reviewedYeung, Alexander S.; Craven, Rhonda G.; Kaur, Gurvinder – Educational Research, 2012
Background: Students' motivation is known to influence academic outcomes. However, there is a paucity of research showing the relative influences of motivational factors on short-term and long-term outcomes. Purpose: The study investigates the relative influences of motivational factors--mastery goal orientation, value of schooling, and academic…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Achievement Tests, Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation
Hemelt, Steven W.; Roth, Kimberly B.; Eaton, William W. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2013
This study exploits a randomized trial of two light-touch elementary school interventions to estimate long-run impacts on postsecondary attendance and attainment. The first is a classroom management technique for developing behavioral skills in children. The second is a curricular intervention aimed at improving students' core reading skills. We…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Elementary Schools, Classroom Techniques, Behavior Development
Dillard, Rhonda Cherie Crutchfield – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative case study examined the self-efficacy beliefs of three high school principals in economically disadvantaged high schools with consistently high graduation rates for African American males. With the demand on school systems to perform in a politically driven, assessment-based paradigm, there is a need to describe and analyze the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Administrator Attitudes, Semi Structured Interviews, Males
Luo, Wenshu; Hogan, David J.; Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; Sheng, Yee Zher; Aye, Khin Maung – Educational Psychology, 2014
This study investigates attributional beliefs of Singapore secondary students in their English study and how they can be predicted by self-construal, competence and achievement goals. A total of 1,496 students were administered surveys on seven attributions, independent and interdependent self-construals, previous achievement, self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Le, Cecilia; Wolfe, Rebecca E.; Steinberg, Adria – Jobs For the Future, 2014
Competency education is attracting significant interest as a promising way to help meet our national priority of ensuring that all young people are ready for college and careers. In competency-based schools, students advance at different rates, based on their ability to demonstrate mastery of learning objectives. Teachers provide customized…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Individualized Instruction, High Schools, Career Readiness
DeWeese, Sean V.; Randolph, Justus J. – Online Submission, 2011
Mastery learning is a formative assessment strategy that involves the use of specific interventions, called correctives, to address the specific comprehension needs of the learner. Effective correctives are crucial for the effectiveness of mastery learning, so it is important that teachers make good decisions about what activities and strategies…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness, Formative Evaluation
Schwinger, Malte; Stiensmeier-Pelster, Joachim – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Background: Students' perceptions of classroom goals influence their adoption of personal goals. To assess different forms of classroom goals, recent studies have favoured an overall measure of performance classroom goals, compared to a two-dimensional assessment of performance-approach and performance-avoidance classroom goals (PAVCG). Aims: This…
Descriptors: Evidence, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Grade 10
Patrick, Helen; Kaplan, Avi; Ryan, Allison M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
In a series of 4 studies we investigated the relations of mastery goal structure and 4 dimensions of the classroom social climate (teacher academic support, teacher emotional support, classroom mutual respect, task-related interaction). We conducted multidimensional scaling with separate adolescent samples that differed considerably (i.e., by…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Multidimensional Scaling, Factor Analysis, Social Environment
Lusk, Danielle L.; Jones, Brett D. – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2011
Because of the importance of students' and teachers' implicit beliefs about intelligence, we designed a study to determine: (a) How is intelligence defined--as a malleable or fixed entity--in introductory educational psychology textbooks? and (b) To what extent are classroom applications of intelligence topics included in the textbooks? We…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Introductory Courses, Textbooks, Intelligence
Gegenfurtner, Andreas – Educational Research Review, 2011
This meta-analysis (148 studies, k = 197, N = 31,718) examined the relationship between motivation and transfer in professional training. For this purpose, motivation was conceptualized in the following nine dimensions: motivation to learn, motivation to transfer, pre- and post-training self-efficacy, mastery orientation, performance orientation,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Professional Training, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation
Phillip, Amara – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
Just 31 percent of community college students complete remedial, or developmental, math "gateway" courses before they move on to college-level math, according to a recent study. To help combat this cycle, some community colleges are turning to newly developed online programs that emphasize repetition, practice, and mastery of concepts.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Online Courses, Developmental Programs, College Students
Hoyt, Jeff E.; Allred, Ellen R.; Hunt, Rob – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2010
This article details the advantages and challenges of implementing writing assessment in a degree completion program; it describes the steps involved in the writing assessment process. Study results demonstrate that graduates from a degree completion program generally have adequate writing skills; nevertheless, many could improve their…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Writing Skills, Thinking Skills
