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Xu, Jianzhong – Journal of Educational Research, 2010
The author examined purposes for doing homework as perceived by 969 eighth-grade students from 52 classes and 831 11th-grade students from 45 classes. Through an exploratory factor analysis, 15 homework purposes were reduced to a 3-factor structure: peer-oriented, adult-oriented, and learning-oriented reasons. A series of 3 multilevel models were…
Descriptors: Homework, Student Attitudes, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
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Du, Jianxia; Xu, Jianzhong – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2010
This study examined online group discussion from students' perspectives to determine what characteristics students identify as meaningful to their online learning. Participants were 142 graduate students in the Southeast. The multiple regression results revealed that quality of online discussion was positively associated with communication media,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Students, Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication