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Bradley, Vaughn M. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
Middle school is a critical time in students' learning of mathematics, something a Learning Management System (LMS) is designed to help parents support. What remains unknown is how parents use an LMS to monitor their children's progress in mathematics. This qualitative case study explored how parents from one midAtlantic middle school with 543…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Integrated Learning Systems
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Bradley, Vaughn M. – Online Submission, 2020
Middle school is a critical time in students' learning of mathematics, something a Learning Management System (LMS) is designed to help parents support. What remains unknown is how parents use an LMS to monitor their children's progress in mathematics. This qualitative case study explored how parents from one midAtlantic middle school with 543…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Integrated Learning Systems
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McKenna, Corey – Educational Renaissance, 2014
The purpose of this multi-case study was to discover the causes of low self-efficacy for math for a group of historically low-performing 7th grade students at a high-poverty urban middle school based upon Bandura's (1986) Social Cognitive Theory, specifically the concept of self-efficacy. Qualitative methods were used to collect data, including…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Middle School Students, Social Cognition, Self Efficacy
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Kelley, Heather M.; Siwatu, Kamau Oginga; Tost, Jeremy R.; Martinez, James – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2015
Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of constructivism and social cognitive theory, this study examined utilising culturally responsive pedagogy through a Latino themed reading task with the intention of increasing reading achievement and reading self-efficacy beliefs for culturally and linguistically diverse students. The research was conducted…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Hispanic American Students, Culturally Relevant Education, Reading Comprehension
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McQuillin, Samuel D.; Lyons, Michael D. – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2016
This study evaluated the efficacy of an intentionally brief school-based mentoring program. This academic goal-focused mentoring program was developed through a series of iterative randomized controlled trials, and is informed by research in social cognitive theory, cognitive dissonance theory, motivational interviewing, and research in academic…
Descriptors: Mentors, Middle School Students, Randomized Controlled Trials, Self Efficacy
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Gibbons, Melinda M.; Borders, L. DiAnne – Career Development Quarterly, 2010
The authors investigated differences in college-going expectations of middle school students who would be the 1st in their families to attend college. Social-cognitive career theory (SCCT; R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, & G. Hackett, 1994) was used to examine college-related expectations in 272 seventh-grade students. Differences were found between…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Academic Aspiration, Middle School Students, Grade 7
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McCabe, Patrick P. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2006
The self-defeating behavior of some students can often make even the most persistent of teachers to feel discouraged. The purpose of this article is to explain and provide a research-based rationale for the use of teacher verbal feedback prompts that convince students of their ability to succeed on a task. He discusses how to understand the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Learning Theories, Metacognition, Social Cognition
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory