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Dinçer, Ali – Online Submission, 2011
Many studies using Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as a theoretical platform have emphasized the importance of knowing students' motivational orientations in education, and stated that autonomy-supportive or controlling learning climates are significant to determine students' motivational resources, academic achievement, and classroom engagement.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Self Determination
Ridings, Kelley R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This investigation examined the impact combinations of at-risk factors had on 10,373 high school students in an urban school district from the school years 2000-2001 to 2006-2007. Students were categorized as high school graduates or dropouts. At-risk factors were associated with each student record. Hypothetical structural models were created for…
Descriptors: Student Records, Urban Schools, High Schools, Structural Equation Models
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Rhule-Louie, Dana M.; Bowen, Sarah; Baer, John S.; Peterson, Peggy L. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2008
This study examines how substance use is associated with the health and safety of homeless youth using cross-sectional, self-report data from 285 homeless adolescents. Path models were used to examine concurrent relationships between youth's substance use and multiple aspects of their health and safety, including measures of psychological…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Path Analysis
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Cole, James S.; Bergin, David A.; Whittaker, Tiffany A. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
We investigated motivation for taking low stakes tests. Based on expectancy-value theory, we expected that the effect of student perceptions of three task values (interest, usefulness, and importance) on low stakes test performance would be mediated by the student's reported effort. We hypothesized that all three task value components would play a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Scores, Predictor Variables
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Brown, Steven D.; Tramayne, Selena; Hoxha, Denada; Telander, Kyle; Fan, Xiaoyan; Lent, Robert W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
This study tested Social Cognitive Career Theory's (SCCT) academic performance model using a two-stage approach that combined meta-analytic and structural equation modeling methodologies. Unbiased correlations obtained from a previously published meta-analysis [Robbins, S. B., Lauver, K., Le, H., Davis, D., & Langley, R. (2004). Do psychosocial…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Structural Equation Models, Persistence, Academic Achievement
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Bruno, Jennifer L.; Manis, Franklin R.; Keating, Patricia; Sperling, Anne J.; Nakamoto, Jonathan; Seidenberg, Mark S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
The integrity of phonological representation/processing in dyslexic children was explored with a gating task in which children listened to successively longer segments (gates) of a word. At each gate, the task was to decide what the entire word was. Responses were scored for overall accuracy as well as the children's sensitivity to coarticulation…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Language Aptitude, Dyslexia, Phonology
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Nikolopoulou, Kleopatra; Gialamas, Vasilis – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2009
This paper discusses the compilation of an instrument in order to investigate pre-service early childhood teachers' views and intentions about integrating and using computers in early childhood settings. For the purpose of this study a questionnaire was compiled and administered to 258 pre-service early childhood teachers (PECTs), in Greece. A…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Self Efficacy, Computer Uses in Education, Young Children
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Tumen, Sarah; Shulruf, Boaz; Hattie, John – Studies in Higher Education, 2008
This article outlines a longitudinal pathway analysis of student performance within educational institutions, so as to identify student profiles which describe those groups of students who are more likely to complete or leave a bachelor degree program, and to identify the predictors for these outcomes. The analyses are based on 7314 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Path Analysis, Undergraduate Students
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Bernaus, Merce; Gardner, Robert C. – Modern Language Journal, 2008
This study investigated language teaching strategies, as reported by teachers and students, and the effects of these strategies on students' motivation and English achievement. The participants consisted of 31 English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers and their students (N = 694) in Catalonia, Spain. The teachers and students rated the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Objective Tests, Teacher Motivation, Learning Motivation
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Sang, Guoyuan; Valcke, Martin; van Braak, Johan; Tondeur, Jo – Computers & Education, 2010
Student teachers should be prepared to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) into their future teaching and learning practices. Despite the increased availability and support for ICT integration, relatively few teachers intend to integrate ICT into their teaching activities (e.g., Ertmer, 2005). The available research has thus…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Path Analysis
Stevenson, Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2009
I investigate the nexus of gender, student ability, and post-baccalaureate (PB) program quality. This is the first general empirical study of graduate and professional educational investment to consider inter-field differences in quality and gender composition. A primary goal of this dissertation is to establish whether admissions policy can…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Graduates, Graduate Study, Graduate Students
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Ekiz, Erdogan H.; Arasli, Huseyin; Farivarsadri, Guita; Bavik, Ali – Educational Research and Reviews, 2008
The main aim of the study is to determine what kind of complaints students have, how universities react to these complaints, and how relevant reactions affect justice perceptions, complainant satisfaction, exit and negative word of mouth intensions of the students. In order to find out students' perceptions on university responses to their…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Path Analysis, Foreign Countries, Social Justice
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Senko, Corwin; Miles, Kenneth M. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
This study explored why mastery-based achievement goals often are unrelated to class grades despite promoting deep learning strategies and high course interest. We hypothesized that mastery-oriented students jeopardize their exam performance by allowing their individual interests to dictate their study efforts such that they neglect boring topics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Path Analysis, Psychology
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Martinez, Rebecca S.; Aricak, O. Tolga; Jewell, Jeremy – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
Despite widespread efforts to prevent reading problems and an abundance of research about best practices in remediating reading skills deficits, reading continues to be exceptionally difficult for many students. Researchers have become interested in investigating the degree to which affective factors such as reading attitude relates to reading…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Reading Attitudes, Reading Achievement, Path Analysis
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Fischer, Ann R.; Holz, Kenna Bolton – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007
In the spirit of counseling psychology's social justice mission (e.g., L. A. Goodman, B. Liang, J. E. Helms, R. E. Latta, E. Sparks, & S. R. Weintraub, 2004), the authors examined perceptions of discrimination against women as related to women's views of the group women, their views of themselves as individuals, and their psychological…
Descriptors: Females, Path Analysis, Justice, Depression (Psychology)
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