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Stephanie Mahal – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to replicate Reeve et al., (2023) by applying the newly proposed tripartite model of self-determination theory (SDT to the context of higher education. The study also investigated the validity of the "Three State Questionnaire" (TSQ) as a measurement tool in higher education. The study consisted of 521 first…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Undergraduate Students, Validity, Teaching Styles
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Franken, Margaret; Branson, Christopher; Penney, Dawn – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
Higher education institutions are increasingly recognizing the importance of organizational change as they face complex challenges. Leadership learning has been identified as an important way of supporting change management. We describe a leadership learning arrangement that arose in the context of two of the authors needing to learn how to become…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Leadership Training, Organizational Change, Department Heads
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Loksa, Dastyni; Margulieux, Lauren; Becker, Brett A.; Craig, Michelle; Denny, Paul; Pettit, Raymond; Prather, James – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2022
Metacognition and self-regulation are important skills for successful learning and have been discussed and researched extensively in the general education literature for several decades. More recently, there has been growing interest in understanding how metacognitive and self-regulatory skills contribute to student success in the context of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Programming, Computer Science Education, Learning Processes
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Srirama, Mamatha V.; Iyer, Parameshwar P.; Reddy, Hariprasad – Learning Organization, 2020
Purpose: Earlier studies of social capital have focused on its influence on various aspects of business. There is substantial void in the literature on how social capital enables learning culture in organizations. The purpose of this paper is to explore direct and indirect relations between dimensions of social capital and learning culture in the…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Organizational Culture, Information Technology, Employee Attitudes
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Hall, Nathan C.; Sampasivam, Lavanya; Muis, Krista R.; Ranellucci, John – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Background: The link between achievement goals and achievement emotions is well established; however, research exploring potential mediators of this relationship is lacking. The control-value theory of achievement emotions (Pekrun, 2006, "Educational Psychology Review," 18, 315) posits that perceptions of control and value mediate the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Psychological Patterns, Behavior Theories
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Lei, Jiang; Lin, Yuewu – English Language Teaching, 2018
Mediation theory facilitates teachers and students to tackle the barriers in English teaching and learning process. It offers a sound systematic theoretical fort on which teachers could rely, redefines teachers' roles and functionings in the process of learners' cognitive development and growing self-regulations. The famous psychologist Lev…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Arung, Fernandes – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Mostly learners and even teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are still not able to speak grammatically and fluently just because they lack of the Indonesian language proficiency and comprehension. This research was done to investigate how the Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) can assist the teachers and learners of EFL in improving their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
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Testa, Italo; Galano, Silvia; Leccia, Silvio; Puddu, Emanuella – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
In this paper, we report about the development and validation of a learning progression about the Celestial Motion big idea. Existing curricula, research studies on alternative conceptions about these phenomena, and students' answers to an open questionnaire were the starting point to develop initial learning progressions about change of seasons,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Questionnaires, Item Response Theory
Arung, Fernandes – Online Submission, 2015
Mostly learners and even teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are still not able to speak grammatically and fluently just because they lack of the Indonesian language proficiency and comprehension. This research was done to investigate how the Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) can assist the teachers and learners of EFL in improving their…
Descriptors: Language Role, Language Usage, Indonesian, English (Second Language)
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Monrad, Merete; Mølholt, Anne-Kirstine – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2017
Problem-based learning (PBL) constitutes a promising way of integrating academia and social work practice because PBL fosters engagement with real-life problems and enhances important skills needed in social work practice. However, little attention has been given to social work students' experiences of PBL. In this article we address this gap by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Social Work, Student Experience
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Savas Basturk – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
Attribution theory deals with the question of how individuals make judgments and seek to explain how they consider the causes of their behaviours and those of others. Attributions have the potential to affect beliefs, emotions and behaviour. Therefore, attribution theory has significantly contributed to the studies on motivation. This study…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Attribution Theory, Success, Failure
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Mercado-Varela, Martin Alonso; Beltran, Jesus; Perez, Marisol Villegas; Vazquez, Nohemi Rivera; Ramirez-Montoya, Maria-Soledad – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
The role of facilitators in distance learning environments is of substantial importance in supporting the learning process. This article specifically discusses the role of the facilitator in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), which are characterized by their stimulation of learning connections. The study analyzes the experiences of 135…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Distance Education, Facilitators (Individuals)
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Jiménez, Patricia Kim – HOW, 2018
This manuscript reports the final findings of an exploratory, descriptive case study that aimed at exploring the perceptions of a group of English as a foreign language students in a public university regarding their English learning and the commitment level through the process. A questionnaire, a survey, and the teacher's diary were the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Public Colleges, Language Attitudes, Case Studies
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Canboy, Basak; Montalvo, Adolfo; Buganza, M. Carmen; Emmerling, Robert J. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
This paper offers an example of how to introduce student-centred knowledge creation and competency development in a systematic way into a master's programme. The curriculum of a new course called Module 9 was framed according to experiential learning theory. While student teams work on self-selected projects, their learning processes are…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Learning Theories, Student Centered Learning, Curriculum Design
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Lee, Eun Jeong – Journal of International Students, 2017
The author in this study introduces an integrated corrective feedback (CF) loop to schematize the interplay between CF and independent practice in L2 oral English learning among advanced-level adult ESL students. The CF loop integrates insights from the Interaction, Output, and Noticing Hypotheses to show how CF can help or harm L2 learners'…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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