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Knekta, Eva – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study investigated changes in reported test-taking motivation from a low-stakes to a high-stakes test and if there are differences in reported test-taking motivation between school classes. A questionnaire including scales assessing reported effort, expectancies, perceived importance, interest, and test anxiety was administered to a sample of…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Test Wiseness, Grade 9, Tests
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Öqvist, Anna; Malmström, Malin – School Leadership & Management, 2016
Teachers' leadership plays a critical and central role in students' educational motivations. This indicates that, in the school context, a teacher's leadership can have both positive and negative impacts on students' educational motivation and performance. This article explores these assumptions, building on the path-goal theory, more specifically…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship
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Klapp, Alli – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2018
The purpose of the study was to investigate if academic and social self-concept and motivation to improve in academic school subjects mediated the negative effect of summative assessment (grades) for low-ability students' achievement in compulsory school. In two previous studies, summative assessment (grading) was found to have a differentiating…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Self Concept, Longitudinal Studies, Quasiexperimental Design
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Henry, Alastair – Language Learning Journal, 2017
In order to reinstate interest and motivation for learning foreign languages (FLs) other than English, the Swedish government has recently reformed the system for admission to higher education. Upper secondary students who continue with the FL learnt in secondary school are rewarded with extra credits that considerably enhance their grade point…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, French, Grade Point Average
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Hellgren, Jenny M.; Lindberg, Stina – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2017
Background: Students' motivation for science declines over the early teenage years, and students often find school science difficult and irrelevant to their everyday lives. This paper asks whether creating opportunities to connect school science to authentic science can have positive effects on student motivation. Purpose: To understand how…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Values, Beliefs
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Mozelius, Peter – ICTE Journal, 2018
Game-based learning has been a rapidly expanding field in the 21th century, with research reports praising the motivational effects and learning outcomes of games. At the same time there have been doubts on the learning outcomes of even the most seriously designed learning games. The generation that today enrols for university programmes is in…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Outcomes of Education, Student Attitudes
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Eriksson, Thommy; Adawi, Tom; Stöhr, Christian – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2017
Why do over 90% of the learners in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) never finish the course? There is a need for further studies focusing on the learners' experiences of participating in MOOCs and factors that influence the decision to complete or drop out of the course. To deepen our understanding of why learners complete or drop out of MOOCs,…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Söderlind, Johan; Geschwind, Lars – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
This paper examines whether subject-specific admission tests may allow Swedish higher education institutions to admit better-performing students. The performance of students admitted via a mathematics and physics aptitude test was reviewed with a focus on activity, retention, and credits earned, and the results were compared with students admitted…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Aptitude Tests, Physics, Science Tests
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Rönnlund, Maria – Journal of Social Science Education, 2014
Drawing on one year of ethnographic work in three Swedish lower secondary schools, this article problematizes students' participation in decision-making in everyday school life in the perspective of social justice. In order to extend the traditional liberal understanding of justice and include also relational, procedurial, social and cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Student Participation, Participative Decision Making
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Ledman, Kristina – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
In Sweden, history has recently become a compulsory subject in upper secondary vocational education and training (VET). The aim of this interview study with teachers was to problematize the transition between the ideals of history education in the curriculum and the everyday practices of history teaching. It investigated how the teachers assess…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, History Instruction, Interviews
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Nelson, Anders; Sandberg, Mikael – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This study investigated labour-market orientations of students at a Swedish University with a dual/diverse focus on vocational/academic objectives. The aim was to investigate whether and how levels of students' labour-market orientation vary with social background, change during the study period, and are related to approaches to studying and…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Employment Opportunities, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis
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Meletiadou, Eleni, Ed. – IGI Global, 2023
Recent evolutions, such as pervasive networking and other enabling technologies, have been increasingly changing human life, knowledge acquisition, and the way works are performed and students learn. In this societal change, educational institutions must maintain their leading role. They have therefore embraced digitally enhanced learning to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Student Needs
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Macheridis, Nikos; Paulsson, Alexander – Tertiary Education and Management, 2016
The starting point of this article is the relation between teaching quality and expectations by different governance actors in higher education. Managing a department in a public university is, to a large extent, about the coordination of governance actors, involving government authorities as well as the university and the faculty. Internally, the…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Proximity, Teacher Effectiveness
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Samuelsson, Marcus; Samuelsson, Joakim – Open Review of Educational Research, 2016
Gender differences between boys and girls in the perception of the classroom setting, and their relationship to achievement in mathematics and aspects of self-regulated learning skills are the focus for this article. Throughout the component analysis of answers from 6758 Swedish students we found some differences in how boys and girls perceive…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Chang Rundgren, Shu-Nu; Rundgren, Carl-Johan – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Based on the EU FP 7 project, PROFILES, this article presents our findings from a three-round Delphi study conducted in Sweden that aimed at establishing a consensus on how science education should be developed for citizens to enhance civic scientific literacy. A total of 100 stakeholders (9th graders, school teachers, scientists, and science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy, Delphi Technique, Science Education
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