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Anne-Line Bjerknes; Terese Wilhelmsen; Emilie Foyn-Bruun – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
Disagreement exists about how to best spark young children's motivation to learn natural science. Both curiosity and wonder are considered important motivational factors for learning during early childhood (0-8 years). This systematic literature review explores research about scientific curiosity and wonder in early childhood education and care…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Young Children, Student Motivation, Personality Traits
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Hava Sason; Rivka Blau; Egoza Wasserman – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2023
The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between students' motivation for learning in an online course and their perceptions regarding the teacher's role. 520 undergraduate students at a college participated in asynchronous online courses and responded to a closed-ended questionnaire about their motivation for learning and their…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Electronic Learning, Teacher Role
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Bishara, Saied – Cogent Education, 2023
This study examined the association between humor, motivation, and achievements in mathematics in students with learning disabilities. For this study, 80 sixth-grade students with learning disabilities who attend integrated classes in a general education school were tested using three instruments: a questionnaire about incorporating humor in…
Descriptors: Humor, Student Motivation, Mathematics Achievement, Students with Disabilities
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Nurit Chamo; Liat Biberman-Shalev – Journal of Social Science Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to identify factors that motivate ultra-Orthodox female student-teachers to learn and teach from a global education perspective. Uncovering these factors may inform the discourse on integrating global orientations into education systems. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopts the broad theoretical idea of global…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Motivation
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Ginzburg, Tamar; Barak, Miri – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2023
Fostering technology-enhanced science learning in elementary schools is an ongoing challenge as young students are not always motivated to engage with science lessons. The use of technology, such as digital sensors and data recorders, has been found to result in higher engagement with science. However, the association between technology-enhanced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Elementary School Students, Grade 6
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Tali Gazit – Information and Learning Sciences, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to obtain valuable insights into students' engagement and experiences within the virtual learning environment, especially in the context of crises. Among the innumerable challenges people throughout the world faced during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, those of students in institutions of higher…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learner Engagement, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Cohen, Shirly Ester – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
In all years of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) in primary mathematics education, Finland ranked in the lower places (44-61) in the dispersion index (the difference in scores between the 95th percentile and the 5th percentile), while Israel ranked in the upper places (1-3) in the same index. In the last PISA test, Israel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
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Ebtesam Barakat; Tal Meler – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2024
This article examines the emergency remote learning (ERL) experiences of Palestinian-Arab college students in Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some studies argue that DL promotes independence and student motivation and enables students from disadvantaged groups to participate in higher education (HE) while tending to social and economic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Alla Hemi; Nir Madjar; Yisrael Rich – Journal of Experimental Education, 2024
Achievement goals are associated with varied students' outcomes, such as academic achievement and well-being. Exploring factors shaping adolescents' achievement goals, such as perceptions of significant others' goals, may benefit efforts to advance positive student outcomes. Prior research focuses on perceived teacher goals and considerably less…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Goal Orientation
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Cohen, Rinat; Katz, Idit; Aelterman, Nathalie; Vansteenkiste, Maarten – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
Students' adaptive motivation to study tends to decrease over time. However, the reasons for this decline are not fully understood. Drawing on self-determination theory (SDT), we investigated whether changes in teachers' motivating style and students' associated need-based experiences could explain the motivational decline documented in the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Teaching Styles, Motivation Techniques, Educational Change
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Avugos, Simcha; Zach, Sima – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
The continuous trend of ultra-Orthodox ('Haredi') women enrolling in higher education institutions has not been widely investigated. The current study explored their reasons for pursuing an academic degree, their radical choice of physical education (PE) as a career, as well as their experiences and reflections on this process. Eighteen Israeli…
Descriptors: Jews, Females, College Students, Physical Education
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Zedan, Raed – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2021
The present study examined the ability of parental involvement to predict classroom climate as perceived by pupils, as well as their motivation level and academic achievements. 726 pupils were randomly sampled. Three questionnaires were employed to measure the research variables. The findings indicate that the more learners include their parents…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Predictor Variables, Classroom Environment, Learning Motivation
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Paz-Baruch, Nurit; Hazema, Hnade – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2023
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is an active process that assists students in managing their thoughts, behaviors, and emotions to navigate their learning experiences successfully. The study examined the differences in motivation and SRL between gifted and high achievers (GHAs) and typical achievers (TAs) in science, technology, engineering, and…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Student Motivation, Academically Gifted, High Achievement
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Epstein, Gil S.; Sansani, Shahar – Education Economics, 2020
In this paper, we estimate differences in examination behavior between immigrants and natives, by examining differences in the propensity to forego a passing grade on a final exam in order to retake that final exam. Retaking a final exam involves some level of uncertainty, so differences in examination behavior may be due to differences in…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Differences, Undergraduate Students, Student Behavior
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Caspi, Avner; Gorsky, Paul; Nitzani-Hendel, Rakefet; Shildhouse, Bruria – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
It has been found that participation in informal, year-long STEM programmes for "primary school children" encourages further STEM learning and motivates STEM career aspirations. To date, no previous research has investigated such programmes. The study's goals were to collect and analyse demographic data about the 3rd-6th grade…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Students, Student Participation, Informal Education
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