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Nie, Youyan; Lau, Shun; Liau, Albert K. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
Emphasizing task importance, which is regarded as a way of motivating engaged behavior, may increase an individual's anxiety. The present research investigated whether academic self-efficacy could moderate the maladaptive relation between task importance and test anxiety. 1978 and 1670 Grade 9 Singaporean students participated in a survey related…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Grade 9, Learning Experience, Test Anxiety
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Chin, Christine; Chia, Li-Gek – Science Education, 2006
This case study involved year 9 students carrying out project work in biology via problem-based learning. The purpose of the study was to (a) find out how students approach and work through ill-structured problems, (b) identify some issues and challenges related to the use of such problems, and (c) offer some practical suggestions on the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Investigations, Biology, Problem Based Learning