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Grosskopf, Kristin – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This qualitative, grounded-theory study investigated learning motivation differences among three achievement groupings of undergraduate students enrolled in the College of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Nine students participated in in-depth interviews that explored their reasons for pursuing their degree,…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Preservice Teacher Education, Undergraduate Students, Learning Motivation
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Marchand, Gwen; Skinner, Ellen A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Models of self-regulated learning and of children's coping both consider help-seeking an adaptive response to academic problems, yet students do not always seek help when it is needed, and help-seeking generally declines across early adolescence. A study of 765 children in elementary and middle school (Grades 3-6) during fall and spring of the…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Age Differences, Coping, Middle Schools