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Direct linkMelian-Melian, Juan A.; Martin-Gutierrez, Jorge – SAGE Open, 2020
The proactive role of university students demands that teaching staff engage in attempts at motivating students to make greater efforts at building knowledge by providing them with resources that facilitate learning. This paper provides details of a study that has involved designing and building Learning Objects (LOs) for Architectural Graphic…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, College Students, Resource Units, Goal Orientation
García-Pérez, Omar; Inda-Caro, Mercedes; Fernández-García, Carmen-María; Torío-López, Susana – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
There is a need to improve students' motivation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Student's academic choices are significantly influenced by parental behaviours and even more so by how those behaviours are perceived by the students. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of perceived family…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Secondary School Students, Grade 10
Ortega-Maldonado, Alberto; Salanova, Marisa – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
This study explores the predictive relationships between psychological capital (PsyCap), meaning-focused coping, satisfaction and performance among undergraduate students. Six hundred and eighty two (n = 682) college students from 29 different academic programmes completed an academic well-being survey, which included measures of PsyCap, coping…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Well Being, Coping, Intervention
Cecchini-Estrada, José-Antonio; Méndez-Giménez, Antonio – European Physical Education Review, 2017
This longitudinal study investigated the effects of a mastery motivational climate in physical education (PE) classes on 2×2 achievement goal orientation and dominance, self-regulated learning (SRL), and physical activity (PA) in leisure time. A total of 408 (264 women, 144 men) university students were randomly assigned to two groups:…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Physical Activities, Motivation, Preservice Teachers
Peña-Calvo, José-Vicente; Inda-Caro, Mercedes; Rodríguez-Menéndez, Carmen; Fernández-García, Carmen-María – Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Background: This study was designed to determine the effect of perceived supports and barriers on self-efficacy beliefs and other social-cognitive variables related to second-year science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students' career development. Social cognitive career theory (SCCT) states that career interest is influenced by…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Self Efficacy, College Students, Career Development
Fenollar, Pedro; Roman, Sergio; Cuestas, Pedro J. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: The prediction and explanation of academic performance and the investigation of the factors relating to the academic success and persistence of students are topics of utmost importance in higher education. Aims: The main aim of the present study is to develop and test a conceptual framework in a university context, where the effects of…
Descriptors: Class Size, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
