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Romero Rodríguez, Laura – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Society is continually evolving and the needs of current generations of students are changing, deriving from the ongoing digital evolution of the whole of society. Gamification tools are increasingly being implemented in education, since previous studies have demonstrated their usefulness to foster motivation, particularly in the case of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Educational Games, Gamification, Game Based Learning
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Cobanoglu, Rahime; Büyükkidik, Serap; Yurttas Kumlu, Gülfem D. – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2023
The present study explores the self-regulated learning (SRL) research published in English or Turkish language journals included in the Web of Science database from the beginning to 2021 via bibliometric analysis. The 2197 articles that met the eligibility criteria were included in the study. The results reveal that the research on SRL has been…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Educational Research, Independent Study, Learning Motivation
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Muro, Anna; Tejada-Gallardo, Clàudia; Illa, Júlia; Gomà-i-Freixanet, Montserrat; Méndez-Ulrich, Jorge L.; Chellew, Karin; Sanz, Antoni; Cladellas, Ramon – School Mental Health, 2023
Previous studies have reported that adolescents were at higher risk for mental health disorders during and after the COVID-19 pandemic due to the characteristics of their developmental period and to the impact of social and mobility restrictions on their daily routines. In response to these reports, we designed, implemented, and evaluated the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Martínez Agudo, Juan de Dios – Language and Education, 2021
The few studies conducted to date on the affective dimension of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) have predominantly focused on the relationship between motivation and language attainment, which points to a need for further investigation. To this end, this cross-sectional study aims at researching the degree of correlation between…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Secondary School Students
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Hortigüela-Alcalá, David; Sánchez-Santamaría, José; Pérez-Pueyo, Ángel; Abella-García, Víctor – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2019
Social networks have a significant presence in universities. More and more teachers are showing an interest in taking advantage of the possibilities they offer for university learning. An empirical study was carried out. The research hypothesis was: the pedagogical use of Twitter and Instagram improves students' motivation and learning. The sample…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Social Networks, Factor Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Sánchez de Miguel, Manuel; Lizaso, Izarne; Hermosilla, Daniel; Alcover, Carlos-Maria; Goudas, Marios; Arranz-Freijó, Enrique – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Background: Research has shown that self-determination theory can be useful in the study of motivation in sport and other forms of physical activity. The Perceived Locus of Causality (PLOC) scale was originally designed to study both. Aim: The current research presents and validates the new PLOC-U scale to measure academic motivation in the…
Descriptors: Validity, Factor Analysis, Learning Motivation, Goodness of Fit
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Kacetl, Jaroslav; Klímová, Blanka – Education Sciences, 2019
At present, hardly any younger person can imagine life without mobile technologies. They use them on a daily basis, including in language learning. Such learning supported with mobile devices is called mobile learning, which seems beneficial especially thanks to the unique features of mobile applications (e.g., interactivity, ubiquity, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs
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Perez-Sabater, Carmen; Montero-Fleta, Begona – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2012
The application of new technologies and media has changed the concept of teaching and learning, offering effective and attractive possibilities to the educational system, particularly to the learning of languages in specific contexts. Educators in general will agree on the importance of motivation as a key to success in language acquisition as it…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Information Management
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Huguet, Angel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
In the bilingual contexts of two regions of Spain, Asturias (Asturian/Spanish) and Eastern Aragon (Catalan/Spanish), and given the relationship between language attitudes and linguistic proficiency, our study has two objectives. Firstly, the attitudes to the two contact languages are described. Secondly, the variables that can explain such…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language Proficiency
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers