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Direct linkJeffrey R. Albrecht; Stuart A. Karabenick – Advances in Motivation and Achievement, 2019
The idea that education should be made relevant to students is long-standing and pervasive in American society. Recently, motivation scientists have clarified important characteristics of students' relevance beliefs, ways to intervene, and individual characteristics moderating intervention effects. Yet, there has been little consideration of the…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Culturally Relevant Education, Learning Motivation, Social Influences
Langhout, Regina Day; Gordon, David L. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2021
When college-based service learning is examined, outcomes are often analyzed in a univariate framework, and participants tend to be White and middle class (if demographic information is given). This examination is a survey of 198 students who were primarily underrepresented and misrepresented students attending a Hispanic Serving Institution. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Service Learning
Causton, Julie; MacLeod, Kate – ASCD, 2020
Challenging behavior is one of the most significant issues educators face. Though it may seem radical to use words like "love," "compassion," and "heart" when we talk about behavior and discipline, the compassionate and heartfelt words, actions, and strategies teachers employ in the classroom directly shape who…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Teacher Behavior, Behavior Modification
Dumont, Hanna; Protsch, Paula; Jansen, Malte; Becker, Michael – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
In this study, we analyzed how secondary school tracking relates to students' self-beliefs (i.e., their academic self-concepts in different domains and their beliefs regarding their labor market chances) and school disengagement during a time period that has received little attention in educational psychological research on tracking: when students…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Secondary School Students, Self Concept, Beliefs
Leana-Tascilar, Marilena Z. – Gifted and Talented International, 2016
The Actiotope Model of Giftedness (AMG) focuses on person--environment interactions to define giftedness. The development of the Questionnaire of Educational and Learning Capital (QELC) was based on the AMG. The first aim of this study was to present the reliability and validity of a Turkish version of the QELC for 10th grade students. The second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Questionnaires, Environmental Influences
Download full textOsler, James Edward; Russell, Stacy – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2013
The purpose of this research was to examine how teacher disposition affects student academic performance through the validity and reliability of a quantitative inventory instrument: The Teacher Dispositions Index [TDI] that measures the dispositions of effective teachers specified by the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium.
Descriptors: Investigations, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Academic Achievement
Smetana, Judith G.; Ahmad, Ikhlas; Wray-Lake, Laura – Developmental Psychology, 2016
We examined within- and between-person variations in parental legitimacy beliefs in a sample of 883 Arab refugee youth (M[subscript age] = 15.01 years, SD = 1.60), 277 Iraqis, 275 Syrians, and 331 Palestinians, in Amman, Jordan. Latent profile analyses of 22 belief items yielded 4 profiles of youth. The "normative" profile (67% of the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Arabs, Parenting Styles, Beliefs
Sadaf, Ayesha; Newby, Timothy J.; Ertmer, Peggy A. – Computers & Education, 2012
This qualitative study explored pre-service teachers' behavioral, normative, and control beliefs regarding their intentions to use Web 2.0 technologies in their future classrooms. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was used as the theoretical framework (Ajzen, 1991) to understand these beliefs and pre-service teachers' intentions for why they…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Self Efficacy, Interviews, Social Influences
Gafoor, K. Abdul; Kottalil, Neena K. – Online Submission, 2011
The concepts academic resilience (AR) and protective factors (PFs) are important in academic vulnerability literature. This review is an attempt to identify, categorize and learn further from studies that dealt with factors which facilitate AR in children. This article attempts to clarify the concepts of academic at-risk, PF and AR in educational…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Literature Reviews, Educational Research, Performance Factors
Donahoo, Saran; Caffey, Ronald A. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2010
This article looks at religion to ascertain the social and individual benefits that postsecondary students gain from their involvement. Focusing on public university students, this study examines the influence church participation has on the academic performance, retention, and engagement of African American college students. (Contains 2 tables…
Descriptors: College Students, African American Students, Learner Engagement, Social Influences
Boucouvalas, Marcie, Ed.; Avoseh, Mejai, Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Undergraduate Students
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Kohlberg, Lawrence – 1971
This address starts by explaining the educational philosphy of John Dewey. In this context, the central aims of education are cognitive and moral development. In a pluralistic society, the teaching of morals poses a grave problem and gives rise to a belief in moral and ethical relativity. This address proceeds to show what is wrong with ethical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes
