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Fewer Students Are Benefiting from Doing Their Homework: An Eleven-Year Study
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Glass, Arnold L.; Kang, Mengxue – Educational Psychology, 2022
Performance on homework questions was compared with performance on related exam questions querying the same fact or principle, was used to assess the effect of answering online homework questions on subsequent exam performance. A distinctive pattern of performance was found for some students in which superior performance on online homework…
Descriptors: Homework, Academic Achievement, Tests, College Students
Autonomous and Controlling Reasons Underlying Achievement Goals during Task Engagement: Their Relation to Intrinsic Motivation and Cheating
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Ozdemir Oz, Ayse; Lane, Jennie F.; Michou, Aikaterini – Educational Psychology, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate the relation of autonomous and controlling reasons underlying an endorsed achievement goal to intrinsic motivation and cheating. The endorsement of the achievement goal was ensured by involving 212 (M(subscript age) = 19.24, SD = 0.97) freshman students in a spatial task and asking them to report their most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Cheating
Interaction between Task Values and Self-Efficacy on Maladaptive Achievement Strategy Use
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Lee, Jeesoo; Bong, Mimi; Kim, Sung-il – Educational Psychology, 2014
We tested the interaction between task value and self-efficacy on defensive pessimism, academic cheating, procrastination and self-handicapping among 574 Korean 11th graders in the context of English as a foreign language. We hypothesised that perceiving high value in tasks or domains for which self-efficacy was low would pose a threat to…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Task Analysis