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Direct linkWen, Yun, Ed.; Wu, Yi-ju, Ed.; Qi, Grace, Ed.; Guo, Siao-Cing, Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Chelliah, Shobhana, Ed.; Kinshuk, Ed.; Lan, Yu-Ju, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2021
This book uncovers the important issues in language learning and teaching in the intelligent, digital era. "Social connectivity" is a contemporary style of learning and living. By engaging in the connectivity of physical and digital worlds, how essential parts of language learning and teaching can be achieved? How can the advanced…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Information Technology
Wisdom, Sherrie, Ed.; Leavitt, Lynda, Ed.; Bice, Cynthia, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
In comparing one public school to another, discussions frequently include talk concerning the socio economics of a school or district, which then leads to talk about the advantages that one socioeconomic setting has over another. Educators tend to agree that low academic achievement frequently associated with a low socioeconomic status is a…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Influences, Racial Discrimination, African American Students
Lent, Robert W.; Lopez, Antonio M., Jr.; Lopez, Frederick G.; Sheu, Hung-Bin – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
We tested the fit of the social cognitive choice model [Lent, R.W., Brown, S.D., & Hackett, G. (1994). "Toward a unifying social cognitive theory of career and academic interest, choice, and performance [Monograph]." "Journal of Vocational Behavior," 45, 79-122] to the data across gender, educational level, and type of university among students in…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Self Efficacy, Computers, Epistemology
Moore, Joi L., Ed.; Benson, Angela D., Ed. – InTech, 2012
This book, written by authors representing 12 countries and five continents, is a collection of international perspectives on distance learning and distance learning implementations in higher education. The perspectives are presented in the form of practical case studies of distance learning implementations, research studies on teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Instructional Design, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedMurray, Carolyn B.; Warden, M. Robert – Journal of Social Psychology, 1992
Presents questionnaire results concerning self-handicapping, course-related expectancies, and study habits. Reports that self-handicappers were more likely than others to make external and unstable attributions. Concludes that the underlying cognitive mechanism of self-handicapping strategies is a defensive attributional pattern that protects an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Defense Mechanisms, Educational Research, Fear of Success
Peer reviewedWollman, Neil; Stouder, Robin – Journal of Social Psychology, 1991
Presents four studies using a criterion measure of political activity to compare overall (locus of control), political, and situation-specific believed efficacy. Reports that the more situation specific the feelings of efficacy, the greater the predictability of political behavior. Concludes that even situation-specific efficacy did not predict…
Descriptors: Activism, Expectation, Higher Education, Individual Power
Peer reviewedDunn, Dana S. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Identifies imagoes as idealized and personified self-concepts that we form in early or mid-adulthood. These characters dominate life stories and personal myths. Discusses a class exercise where students review the imagoes most frequently used in journal entries concerning individual myths and major life events. (MJP)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Imagery, Individual Development, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedHarrison, Allison W.; Rainer, R. Kelly, Jr.; Hochwarter, Wayne A.; Thompson, Kenneth R. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1997
Briefly reviews Albert Bandura's Self-Efficacy Performance Model (ability to perform a task is influenced by an individual's belief in their capability). Tests this model with a sample of 776 university employees and computer-related knowledge and skills. Results supported Bandura's thesis. Includes statistical tables and a discussion of related…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures, Educational Psychology
Peer reviewedBryson, John R. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1997
Identifies the A level as an advanced placement examination given to high school students in the United Kingdom. Discusses the dichotomy between the A level students' knowledge of geography (dependent upon rote memorization) and the requirements of university geography (critical thinking and application). Recommends the adoption of reflective…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Advanced Placement, College Freshmen, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedEnochs, Larry G.; Riggs, Iris M. – School Science and Mathematics, 1990
Described is a measure of the self-efficacy of preservice elementary science teachers. Field experiences, peer teaching, and the self-evaluation of microteaching are introduced as ways to enhance science teaching self-efficacy. Validity and reliability data are presented. (KR)
Descriptors: College Science, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Higher Education
Peer reviewedShanahan, Michael J.; And Others – Sociology of Education, 1997
Presents a look at individual responsibility and decision making (here defined as planfulness) and how it is affected by external factors of social and economic turmoil. Utilizes data from a longitudinal study of privileged men born between 1904 and 1917 and their educational attainment in subsequent years. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adolescent Development, Age Groups, Decision Making
Peer reviewedMeyers, Steven A. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Reviews studies and journal articles to collect suggestions for increasing individual student involvement in small-group activities. Briefly addresses the lack of student productivity during these activities. Includes a descriptive table of all articles appearing in "Teaching of Psychology" between 1974 and 1995. (MJP)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Research, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Peer reviewedVanderStoep, Scott W.; Shaughnessy, John J. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Presents the results of a study that tested students in a research methods and a developmental psychology class on methodological and statistical reasoning at the beginning and the end of the term. Reasoning scores of research methods students improved more than the scores of developmental psychology students. (MJP)
Descriptors: Course Content, Decision Making, Developmental Psychology, Educational Benefits
Peer reviewedClement, Russell W.; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Replicates a classic psychology laboratory experiment where students either endorsed or refuted personal statements and estimated how other people would respond. Students always overestimated an affirmative response on the statements they endorsed, thus illustrating the false consensus effect. Includes a list of the statements and statistical…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Computer Uses in Education, Conformity, Congruence (Psychology)
