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Luana Dos Santos Fraga; Izete Pengo Bagolin – Journal of College Student Development, 2023
This study aimed to identify whether motivation to learn has a statistically significant effect on intergenerational educational mobility among Brazilian university students. Although qualitative studies have proposed the existence of this relationship, quantitative evidence still needs to be discovered. We sought to identify the characteristics…
Descriptors: Educational Mobility, Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Motivation
Stephanie McDonald; Megan P. Barnard – Psychology Teaching Review, 2023
Statistics is a core subject in the psychology undergraduate curriculum and is often associated with increased anxiety among learners. The aim of this study was to identify factors relating to statistics anxiety, and specifically, how prior experiences in mathematics and A-Level science qualifications may influence students' perceptions as they…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Prior Learning, Mathematics
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Jiazi Li; Heung Kou; Jue Wang; Wei Ren – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation among the components affecting MOOC ability to learn the Chinese dance majors. MOOC courses are easy to register and access whereas SPOC derived from MOOC allows access to selected students. MOOC implementing AI for teaching improves the quality of courses as AI determines content with…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Dance Education, Majors (Students), Teaching Methods
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Wei, Xiaoxia; Weerasawainon, Aeksing – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2024
Being able to use a foreign language to communicate will increase an individual's opportunities of employment and personal growth, which implies the significance of adopting a lifelong learning approach to language learning. This study was conducted to explore language learners' lifelong learning tendency in general and the key factors affecting…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Nourollah Zarrinabadi; Masoumeh Soleimani – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study examined the role of positive and negative feedback on goal commitment and energy investment among English as a foreign language learners who experienced directed motivational currents (DMCs). To this purpose, a systematic methodology was used to identify language learners with a DMC experience (six students, four females, two males,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Positive Reinforcement, Negative Reinforcement
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Wen Xu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The growth of the Chinese language in African countries and African students' consequent flocking into Chinese higher education are both emergent phenomena. This partly explains the lack of empirical research on this body of student migrants and their Chinese language learning. This paper applies Watkins' theorisation on pedagogic affect to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
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Pinky Kusuma Ningtyas; Hayuni Retno Widarti; Parlan Parlan – Journal of Science Learning, 2024
Social media is one of the platforms that is popular and familiar to various circles. This technology has penetrated multiple fields, especially education. Many studies have shown the use of social media in the learning process. This study aims to explore the use of social media in science learning environments and their impacts. The method used…
Descriptors: Social Media, Science Education, Learning Processes, Research Reports
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Jia-Ying Lee – SAGE Open, 2024
This research was a quasi-experiment that examined the effects of CLIL in an educational context in Taiwan's higher education. Two groups of first-year undergraduate students were involved. One (65 students) was taught with CLIL; the other (59), the conventional approach. Their knowledge of the content and learning attitudes (self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning
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Mingyu Li – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Drawing from (Dörnyei's, The Psychology of the language learner: Individual differences in second language acquisition, 2005) L2 Motivational Self System, this case study delved into the L2 learning motivations of liberal arts and science English majors at a transnational university in China, where English Medium Instruction (EMI) is prevalent.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Marek Hatala; Sina Nazeri – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2024
An essential part of making dashboards more effective in motivating students and leading to desirable behavioural change is knowing what information to communicate to the student and how to frame and present it. Most of the research studying dashboards' impact on learning analyzes learning indicators of students as a group. Understanding how a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Information Dissemination, Learning Processes, Algorithms
Alexandra Green – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research delves into the attitudes, perceptions, and motivations of student-athletes enrolled in Intermediate Algebra courses. It focuses on the distinct challenges they encounter in juggling academic and athletic responsibilities at a southeastern university in the United States. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the study gathered…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Curriculum, Student Attitudes
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Triyanto – SAGE Open, 2019
The primary objective of learning engaged in higher education is to build graduate students who have great competence. This study aims to analyze the academic motivation of Papuan students at Sebelas Maret University. Data were collected through questionnaires and interviews. The participants were undergraduate students of Papua and West Papua.…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Incentives
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Caruso, Marinella; Fraschini, Nicola – Modern Language Journal, 2021
This study explores language learners' motivation from the perspective of vision, a concept that has specifically been identified as one of the next challenges for motivation research. Having conceptualized vision as a powerful motivational component of the language learning process, and focusing on the learner's individual perspective, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, Italian
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Koyuncuoglu, Özdal – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2021
Academic motivation are claimed to be influencing factors on college students' various outcomes. The aim of this study is to compare the academic motivation and career decidedness of university students based on the variables of gender, year of study, academic achievement and expectations for pursuing graduate education. 376 students at Karatay,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Career Choice, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Eloho Ifinedo; Diane Burt – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Service-learning (SL) is a widely accepted pedagogy that can enrich the learning experience for students in higher education while they apply their skills in a meaningful community service. This research is part of a larger project that aimed to motivate educational achievement among youths living in a priority neighborhood through SL.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Community Centers
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