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Zhao, Chunjuan; Mei, Zongxiang – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
Motivating students has been a key challenge facing instructors in non-face-to-face instructional contexts. Existing researches into motivation in online learning environment have revealed that there are learning motivation differences among students from different cultural backgrounds. The purpose of this study is to identify whether American and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation
Zhang, Bo; Li, Yi Ming; Li, Jian; Li, Ye; Zhang, Houcan – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
Self-determination theory (SDT) has contributed greatly to our understanding of human motivation. Based on SDT, the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) was developed to assess students' motivation to learn. AMS has been successfully applied to the educational context in Western cultures. However, no psychometrically validated version is available in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Likert Scales, Construct Validity
Bayeck, Rebecca Yvonne – Open Praxis, 2016
This paper reports preliminary findings on students enrolled in a massive open online course, who were also assigned to work in groups. Part of a larger study on the effect of groups on retention and completion in MOOCs, the paper provides students' demographics (i.e., location, gender, education level, and employment status), and motivation for…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Student Characteristics, Demography
Akbasli, Sait; Sahin, Mehmet; Yaykiran, Zeliha – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Mathematics and Science classes in schools have become a focus to be considered in terms of educational systems and administration around the world in the last decade. Related to the mentioned classes, there are many benefits that lead students to academic success. In the recent years, educators have found that there are so many different factors…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Tests
Gu, Peidi – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Computer and information technologies have brought revolutions to many aspects of our lives. Online learning is one of the new learning methods that have emerged with the development of new technologies. Even though the advantages of online learning are very attractive to students and educators, when they are applied in real educational settings,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, High School Students, Program Effectiveness
Martin, A. J.; Yu, Kai; Hau, Kit-Tai – Educational Psychology, 2014
The present study investigated multidimensional motivation and engagement among Chinese middle school students in Australia (N?=?273), Hong Kong (N?=?528), and Mainland China (N?=?2106; randomly selected N?=?528). Findings showed that a multidimensional model of motivation and engagement fit very well for all three groups. Multi-group invariance…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Asians, Correlation
Cheung, Alan C. K.; Yuen, Timothy W. W. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
The purpose of this paper was to examine the motives, the educational experiences, and the plan after graduation of a particular group of mainland Chinese students pursuing teacher education in Hong Kong by using a modified two-way push-and-pull model as our analytical framework. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods.…
Descriptors: Asians, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries
He, Xiaojun – English Language Teaching, 2015
This paper will focus on the effective review of English in the third grade of primary school. In the first part, the author introduces the importance of improving the effective review of English in the third grade of primary school. Analyzing from the aspects of theories, teachers have to get a good knowledge of language theories and analyze it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Teachers
Liu, Hongzhe; Liu, Jinlan; Chi, Xianglan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
Investment in higher education facilities in terms of both hardware and software has witnessed significant growth on a yearly basis since the reintroduction of the college entrance examination known as the NMT in 1977. However, a social assessment of graduates' qualities seems to indicate that the improvement in skill levels and graduates' general…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Determination, Student Experience, Student Participation
Xiao, Junhong – Distance Education, 2014
Learner agency plays a key role in self-regulated learning. Yet, there is a paucity of research into its role in the distance learning context. Using reflective narratives written by a distance learner of English in China, this longitudinal case study aims to investigate the ways in which learner agency mediates the language learning in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Reflection, Distance Education, Longitudinal Studies
Chen, Qian – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This descriptive and exploratory case study focused on a specific Content-Based Language Teaching (CBLT) curriculum within the context of higher education in China. The researcher investigated the rationale behind the current design and students' and teachers' perceptions about the curriculum, as well as, their perceived motivations and challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Business English
Mazumder, Quamrul – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2014
To better understand the motivation and strategies used by students around the world, a comparative study among three different countries was performed. The current study used the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) questionnaire to collect responses from students in public and private universities of Bangladesh. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies, Cross Cultural Studies
Sum, Raymond Kim Wai; Tsai, Hsiu-Hua; Ching Ha, Amy Sau; Cheng, Chih-fu; Wang, Fong-jia; Li, Minghui – SAGE Open, 2017
Previous research has encouraged a cultural specific framework to be developed through research in Asian countries, such as China, to help internationalize the findings and help athletes to adapt them to their society and culture. Based on a socioecological framework, this study investigated how social-ecological determinants affect elite student…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Athletes, Acculturation, Socialization
Wentao, Chen; Jinyu, Zhang; Zhonggen, Yu – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2016
English for Library Science is an essential course for students to command comprehensive scope of library knowledge. This study aims to compare the learning outcomes, gender differences and affective factors in the environments of blended and traditional learning. Around one thousand participants from one university were randomly selected to…
Descriptors: Library Science, Affective Objectives, Blended Learning, Outcomes of Education
Wang, Xiaohong; Shen, Lei; Lu, Xiao – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2016
Writing is one of the most challenging skills for many EFL learners to master. It is also considered to be the most difficult to teach. To motivate students to write more without burdening teachers with additional rating work, college English teachers at a university in China introduced a journal project. Peer learners were paired anonymously and…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning