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Help Seeking as a Self-Regulated Learning Strategy and Achievement Goals: The Case of Academically Talented Adolescents
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Gonida, Eleftheria N.; Karabenick, Stuart A.; Stamovlasis, Dimitrios; Metallidou, Panayiota; Greece, the CTY – High Ability Studies, 2019
Seeking help as an important self-regulated learning strategy has been consistently associated with student motivation. Despite the extensive body of research on typically achieving students, no studies have included help seeking in the literature on talented children. The present study explored the help-seeking intentions and beliefs and…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Goal Orientation, Metacognition, Learning Strategies
Consistently Inconsistent: Teachers' Beliefs about Help Seeking and Giving When Students Work in Groups
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Wosnitza, Marold S.; Labitzke, Nina; Woods-McConney, Amanda; Karabenick, Stuart A. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
While extensive research on student help-seeking and teachers' help-giving behaviour in teacher-centred classroom and self-directed learning environments is available, little is known regarding teachers' beliefs and behaviour about help seeking or their role when students work in groups. This study investigated primary (elementary) school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Help Seeking, Teacher Attitudes, Cooperative Learning
Perceived Achievement Goal Structure and College Student Help Seeking
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Karabenick, Stuart A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Two studies examined associations between college students' help seeking and perceptions of their classes' achievement goal structure. Study 1 established that students' help seeking (N = 883 in 6 chemistry classes) could be parsimoniously described by distinct approach (intentions to seek autonomous help from teachers) and avoidance patterns…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, College Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
Relationship of Academic Help Seeking to the Use of Learning Strategies and Other Instrumental Achievement Behavior in College Students.
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Karabenick, Stuart A.; Knapp, John R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
Correlates of help-seeking by college students were examined in 3 studies involving a total of 1,539 students. Evidence from all three studies supports the view that help-seeking in college is an achievement-related, rather than a dependent, behavior. Active learners were more likely to seek help when needed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, College Students, Goal Orientation