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Tugtekin, Ufuk – Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
The development of web-based technologies and mobile devices, as well as their widespread usage, create favorable conditions for cyberloafing behaviors, raising the effects of cyberloafing in educational settings. The current study, which examined the behavioral levels and reasons of cyberloafing committed by college students in lectures, as well…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Academic Ability
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Kurian, Joe; Mekoth, Nandakumar – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
The influence of emotionality and conscientiousness, the personality traits, on academic performance were examined on students of higher education using the perspectives of conservation of resources theory and social cognitive theory. Skinner's coping model was utilized to understand coping mechanisms in the context of engineering education.…
Descriptors: Coping, Academic Achievement, Engineering Education, Academic Ability
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Perez, Tony; Dai, Ting; Kaplan, Avi; Cromley, Jennifer G.; Brooks, Wanda D.; White, Arianna C.; Mara, Kyle R.; Balsai, Michael J. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Expectancy-value theory highlights the roles of students' expectancies, task values, and perceived costs in their motivation and achievement. While ample research has highlighted the positive associations of expectancy beliefs and task values with academic achievement, research on students' perceived costs is in its infancy. We investigated the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Achievement, Beliefs
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Niehues, Wenke; Kisbu-Sakarya, Yasemin; Selcuk, Bilge – Educational Psychology, 2020
Turkey is an interesting context to study the applicability of the Expectancy-Value-Theory (EVT), since it is a less well-studied research context with a highly selective, centralised, and competitive education system and a more collectivistic-orientated population. In such a context, well-established factors known to drive students' achievement,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Mathematics Achievement, Socioeconomic Status, Parent Attitudes
Karaoglan-Yilmaz, Fatma Gizem; Yilmaz, Ramazan; Üstün, Ahmet Berk; Keser, Hafize – Online Submission, 2019
The aim of this research is to examine the structural relationships between metacognitive thinking skills, critical thinking standards and academic self-efficacy of teacher candidates. The research was carried out according to the relational survey method and structural equation modelling was done in the analysis of the data. The data of the study…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Thinking Skills, Correlation, Critical Thinking
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Vayre, Emilie; Vonthron, Anne-Marie – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2017
The aim of this study is to test a model of online learners' engagement, which integrates social support (from teachers, peers, and family members) and sense of community as direct and indirect factors, with academic self-efficacy playing a mediating role. Survey results based on a questionnaire administered to 255 students enrolled in an online…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Social Support Groups, Path Analysis
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Madjar, Nir; Chohat, Ronny – Educational Psychology, 2017
The current study aimed to explore the concept of transition self-efficacy, which is defined as individuals' subjective evaluation of their ability to execute the actions required for a successful transition from elementary to middle school. The study followed a sample of 128 sixth-grade students for 2 consecutive years (before and after the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Academic Achievement, Academic Ability, Self Concept