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Einat Elizarov; Yair Ziv; Maya Benish-Weisman – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Values, defined by Schwartz (1994) as basic motivational cognitive structures, guide life goals, transcend contexts, and affect individuals' courses of action differently depending on their preferred values. With young children, an important question that emerges is what factors underlie the linkages between their preferred motivations (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Young Children, Hebrew
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Garra-Alloush, Iman; Chaleila, Wisam; Watted, Abeer – English Language Teaching, 2021
The purpose of this study is to examine pre-service teachers' motivations for choosing English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching as a future profession for Female Arab citizens living in Israel. Data were gathered using the adapted Factors Influencing Teaching Choice (FIT-Choice) scale. Study participants (a cohort of N = 100) responded to a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Career Choice
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Awad, Nayif – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: Although sound is an everyday phenomenon that we hear about constantly, numerous studies have reported that students often exhibit learning difficulties in understanding this subject. Only a few studies have proposed programs involving practical learning experiments to provide students with solid conceptual knowledge. Moreover, little…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Technology, Middle School Students
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Davidovitch, Nitza; Yavich, Roman – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2023
This study explored the relationship between the size of the study group and the motivation and engagement of students in online and face-to-face classes while exploring the effect of personal and academic background variables, the number of students in the study group, and the level of their motivation to study. The study included 122…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Communities of Practice, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement
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Maaravi, Yossi – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020
In the current article, the already existing process of "hackathons" was used to teach management or organisational consulting. Two separate events were conducted with dozens of students working in teams for twelve straight hours to solve real organisational challenges. Results from post-event surveys indicate that participants -…
Descriptors: College Students, Business Administration Education, Consultants, Experiential Learning
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Davidovitch, Nitza; Eckhaus, Eyal – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
The current study is an exploratory study designed to examine the traits that are considered essential or important for research students, from the perspective of student advisors. The study addresses the broad question of whether and how academic faculty members select research students when seeking to maximize their own research outputs and…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Student Motivation, Research, College Faculty
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Brody, David L.; Scheiner, Esther Y.; Dimri Ben Ari, Mordechai; Tzadok, Yair; van der Aalsvoort, Geerdina Maria; Lepola, Janne – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This international study compared motivational tendencies among pre-school children from Israel, Finland and the Netherlands. Teachers were asked to rate students' behaviours during semi-structured tasks using the Child Behaviour Motivational Scale (CBeMo) which measures task orientation, task avoidance, and social dependence. Motivational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Student Motivation, Cultural Differences
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Fortus, David; Lin, Jing; Passentin, Shira – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
Science teachers in many countries were required to shift from face-to-face (F2F) instruction to distance learning (DL) during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the aim of helping science teachers learn how to support their students in negotiating such shifts in the future, we used an online motivation survey based on achievement goal theory to…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Distance Education, School Closing, COVID-19
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Leshem, Shosh – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
Research suggests that identity development is a crucial dimension of the doctoral student experience. This study explores what identity formations doctoral students exhibit in the doctoral journey and how these formations affect their experiences in the process of achieving a doctorate. The methodology employed was within the qualitative paradigm…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Student Development, Professional Identity, Self Concept
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Margaliot, Adva; Gorev, Dvora – Computers in the Schools, 2020
Teachers' motivation to collaborate depends on their beliefs about its contribution to learning and teaching. This mixed method study applied cognitive orientation (CO) theory to measure 266 pre-service teachers' willingness to engage in online collaborative learning (OCL) after experiencing it. Willingness to engage in OCL was examined via a…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning
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Chernov, Victor; Klas, Sivan; Shaharabani, Yael Furman – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2021
Technology-enriched lessons can contribute to improving student engagement and learning in engineering courses. In this study we systematically incorporated Kahoot!, a game-based response system, in two mandatory content-intensive undergraduate engineering courses. In both courses, short quizzes were incorporated regularly at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Games, Engineering Education, Learner Engagement
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Yosef, Reuven; Talker, Sigal; Sadeh, Irit – Education Sciences, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a situation, the "anthropopause", of lockdowns and distancing among individuals to reduce the spread of the disease. One of the major problems to surface is the inequality of the educational process in schools. We present a study of high school students who conduct a year-long research project with an…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Sarid, Ariel; Haj-Yehia, Kussai; Shaham, Hait; Rigbi, Amihai – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to explore the kinds of motivation driving Arab and Jewish students in Israel to choose teaching as a career. This study addressed several issues that have been largely overlooked in previous research such as the focus on Content Value motives (the motivation to teach specific subjects) as well as linking demographic…
Descriptors: Jews, Arabs, Student Motivation, Teaching (Occupation)
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Levkovich, Inbar; Elyoseph, Zohar – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine perspectives on childhood, coping methods and reasons for deciding to major in education among undergraduates with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). While the experiences of children and adolescents with ADHD have been the focus of much research, empirical evidence is lacking regarding the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Students with Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Student Experience
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Meital Amzalag; Dorin Kadusi; Shimon Peretz – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
Abundant research has tried to understand how games can be designed and used effectively to improve the learning process and to examine the correlations between digital learning games and student motivation, engagement, and knowledge retention. The current study examined the correlation between learning through digital game-based learning (DGBL)…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Game Based Learning, Electronic Learning
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