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Margarita Ortiz-Rojas; Katherine Chiluiza; Martin Valcke; Cindy Bolanos-Mendoza – International Journal of STEM Education, 2025
Background: The demand for professionals with expertise in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) continues to grow. To meet this demand, universities are actively seeking strategies to engage more students in STEM disciplines and improve their learning outcomes. One promising approach is gamification, specifically using…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Gamification, STEM Education, Calculus
Gagan Shergill – Communique, 2025
Although school psychologists often comment on examinee motivation in their reports, systematic evaluation of effort is not common practice. Empirical assessment of performance effort provides critical evidence for the validity of evaluations and will likely lead to more valid assessments, recommendations, and placements. This article focuses on…
Descriptors: Testing, Student Behavior, Student Motivation, Student Evaluation
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Charles O. Ogbaekirigwe; Ifeoma M.B. Ubah; Amarachi Salome Azubuike; Udodirim Angela Igwe; Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie – Education & Training, 2025
Purpose: This study examines how and whether expectancy for success and task values influence students' persistence in work placement learning tasks (persistence). Also, it examines the mediating role of task values in the expectancy for success and students' persistence nexus. Design/methodology/approach: This is a two-study finding. In Study 1,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Predictor Variables, Academic Persistence, Job Placement
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Vincent Tinto – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
Unlike many earlier models of student persistence that viewed the process of student persistence through the lens of the institution, the model proposed here looks at persistence through the eyes of students. It draws on the research on student motivation, student perceptions, and the impact of student networks on student engagement to propose a…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement
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Miao Chao; Weiyi Sun; Jie Liu; Jiahui Ding; Ye Zhu – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: The use of social media among students has become debatable concern due to both positive and negative effects on academic performance. Yet, understanding of the diverse patterns of social media use and their influence on actual and perceived academic performance remains limited. Objectives: This study distinguishes between academic and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Performance, Influence of Technology, Predictor Variables
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Larisa Nikitina; Liang Liang Su; Fumitaka Furuoka – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2025
Motivational drivers and emotions that students experience play an important role in the process of learning a new language (L2). This has been recognised by researchers and educators, and extensive research has been conducted in recent decades to examine the psychological and emotional factors involved in L2 learning. However, two ubiquitous…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Second Language Learning, Psychological Patterns, Personality Traits
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Mara E. McFadden; Sara J. Finney – International Journal of Testing, 2025
Priming examinees with questions about intended effort prior to testing has been shown to significantly increase examinee expended effort via self-reported effort and response-time effort. However, this question-behavior effect seems to wear off later in a testing session. We examined whether administering a second "dose" of the…
Descriptors: Priming, Test Content, Student Behavior, Student Motivation
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Osman Özdemir – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: In recent years, the widespread use of technology in classrooms has encouraged the transition from traditional lecture methods to digital-based learning environments. Technological game-based learning platforms, such as Kahoot!, which are used to encourage students' active participation and interaction in learning environments, are…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Video Games, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
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Robert F. Bruner – Journal of Economic Education, 2025
Democracy and capitalism are two of the most consequential institutional systems in the world. However, their dynamic complexity, current turmoil, and evolution make them challenging to study. High-engagement teaching can bring the subjects alive, motivate student exploration, inform choices, animate sensible policy recommendations, and make a…
Descriptors: Democracy, Social Systems, Economics Education, Learner Engagement
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Hongli Yang; Jingjing Xiang – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
The relationship between peer support and academic engagement has been widely explored. However, scarce research examined this relationship for college students, and little was known about the underlying mechanism under this relationship. This study aimed to examine the effect of peer support on academic via the mediation of academic motivation…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Measurement
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Jing Wu; Zimin Yuan; Qi Xu – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
Task motivation is critical to learners' task performance. However, scant studies have examined learners' task motivation in the translation continuation task based on the "xu"-argument, an emerging view on language acquisition. This exploratory study examined how Chinese English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners' task motivation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, English (Second Language)
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Pui-sze Yeung; Kevin Kien-hoa Chung; David Wai-ock Chan; Elaine Sau-wai Chan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
The relationship among three writing motivation and affective constructs (writing self-efficacy, perceived value of writing, and writing apprehension) and writing performance was examined among 273 Chinese fourth graders. The structural equation modelling results showed that the direct path from writing apprehension to writing performance was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Writing (Composition)
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Agnes Strandberg – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
As teachers' experiences are a prerequisite for developing an understanding of the challenges of teaching, their reflections on the potential of using authentic text in L1 grammar teaching deserves closer attention. This paper presents a focus-group study with six Swedish L1 teachers at upper secondary level during an intervention, in which they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Swedish, Teaching Experience
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Aleksandra Kobicheva; Elena Tokareva; Tatiana Baranova – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Phubbing is not only a consequence of technological advancements but also represents an entirely novel aspect of social conduct, impacting students' academic performance and the sustainability of development. The purpose of the study is to identify the relationship between students' level of phubbing, academic engagement and academic performance…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Learner Engagement, Computer Use, College Students
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J. Murillo-Moraño; Juan Calmaestra; Álvaro Morente; J. D. Benítez-Sillero – Journal of School Violence, 2025
The present study aimed to identify gender and age differences in motivation toward physical education (PE) and to explore the relationship between bullying roles, in PE and in the educational context in general, and motivation toward PE. A total of 1352 schoolchildren (49.7% girls) from 5th year of Compulsory Primary Education to 1st year of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Gender Differences, Age Differences, Student Motivation
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