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Assessing Learning Skills and Work Habits: What Do Report Card Data Tell Us?
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Stefan Denis Merchant; Don Klinger; John Kirby – Canadian Journal of Education, 2022
Many school systems ask teachers to assess and report upon aspects of student performance beyond academic achievement. In Ontario, K-12 teachers assess a common set of six Learning Skills and Work Habits. How well teachers are able to undertake these assessments is not well studied. This study examines Grade 9 and 12 report card data from two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Grade 12, Report Cards
Self-Regulation of Homework Behaviour: Relating Grade, Gender, and Achievement to Homework Management
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Yang, Fuyi; Tu, Menglu – Educational Psychology, 2020
The present investigation linked grade, gender, and maths achievement to homework management strategies using data from 305 Chinese students in grades 7, 8, and 9. These strategies included arranging the environment, managing time, handling distraction, monitoring motivation, and controlling potentially interfering emotion. A three-way MANOVA…
Descriptors: Self Management, Homework, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries
Envisaging Agency as Discourse Hybridity: A Butlerian Analysis of Secondary Classroom Discourses
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Charteris, Jennifer – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
Conceptualised from a range of sociological perspectives, and theorised extensively over the last 50 years, human agency is an integral element to lifelong learning. Poststructural theory with its decentred discursive construction of the learner offers a vibrant conception of classroom dynamics. This paper envisions how learner agency can be…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries
Youth Exercise Intention and Past Exercise Behavior: Examining the Moderating Influences of Sex and Meeting Exercise Recommendations
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Downs, Danielle Symons; Graham, George M.; Yang, Stephen; Bargainnier, Sandra; Vasil, Jay – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2006
The study purposes were to examine: (a) the determinants of exercise intention and past exercise behavior (PEB) using the theories of reasoned action and planned behavior, and (b) the moderating influences of sex and exercise group (meeting or not meeting exercise guidelines). Participants (n = 676 adolescents) completed self-reported measures of…
Descriptors: Exercise, Intention, Behavior Theories, Measurement Techniques
Developing Self-Regulated Learners: Goal Setting, Self-Evaluation, and Organizational Signals during Acquisition of Procedural Skills
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Kitsantas, Anastasia; Reiser, Robert A.; Doster, Jessica – Journal of Experimental Education, 2004
The authors examined how 2 types of goal setting (process vs. outcome), self-evaluation (presence vs. absence), and organizational signals (presence vs. absence) affected student ability to perform a set of procedural skills, namely animating slides created via presentation software. They also examined how these variables influenced a variety of…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Efficacy, Grade 9
Education Unplugged: Students Sound off about What Helps Them Learn
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Saul, Donaleen – Education Canada, 2005
Two groups of students, one on the Atlantic coast and one on the Pacific coast think about and discuss their own experiences with and perceptions of public education. They were asked to consider the following questions: In your experiences as a student in an education system: What are the things that help students learn? What are the things that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Grade 10, Grade 9