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Xie, Jianling; Xu, Jianzhong; Wei, Tianlan; Gallo, Katarzyna; Giles, Mary Everett; Zhan, Yan; Zeng, Yan; Huang, Xiang; Liu, Xia – Adult Learning, 2022
This exploratory qualitative case study investigates how graduate students in education experience, attribute, and combat academic boredom. Three areas of concern are addressed: (a) the contributing factors to boredom, (b) how attributional style (internal vs. external) relates to coping with boredom, and (c) the differences between combating…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Education Majors, Psychological Patterns, Learner Engagement
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Xu, Jianzhong – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2013
Homework is a common and widespread educational activity. Yet, as homework often takes place amidst the pull of more attractive and competing after-school activities, doing homework presents multiple challenges for many students, even for those students who find their assignments meaningful and interesting. In this article, I first examine five…
Descriptors: Homework, Student Attitudes, Self Control, Time Management
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Xu, Jianzhong – School Community Journal, 2005
This article links student and family characteristics, along with perceived purposes for doing homework, to homework emotion management as reported by 205 high school students in grades 9-10. The results revealed that adolescents' management of their emotions was not related to grade level and amount of parental education. However, girls and…
Descriptors: Homework, Emotional Response, Family Characteristics, Grade 9