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Danyelle Tauryce Willis; Kimberley Edelin Freeman – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
Objectives: We aim to understand, from a motivational perspective, how Black undergraduate women in computing make sense of their intersectional computing experiences. We examine their motivation to major in computing, their experiences as Black women in computing, and how these vary across institutional contexts. Participants: A sample of 77…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, African American Students, Student Motivation, Student Experience
Yolanda Louie – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem that was addressed through this study is that online undergraduate adult students, 25 years of age or older, do not persist to graduation at Caring University, a pseudonym for an online university. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the perceptions of online adult undergraduate alumni about what motivated them to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Adult Students, Academic Persistence, Virtual Universities
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Gal Kaldes; Karyn Higgs; Jodi Lampi; Alecia Santuzzi; Stephen M. Tonks; Tenaha O'Reilly; John P. Sabatini; Joseph P. Magliano – Grantee Submission, 2024
The current research used the Proficient Academic Reader (PAR) framework to explore whether reading strategies, task awareness, and motivation predicted college students' literacy skills over and above foundational skills (e.g., decoding, vocabulary). Specifically, the current research investigated the unique contribution of the PAR constructs to…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Literacy, Reading Skills
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Ellis-Harrison, Erin – Communication Center Journal, 2021
Student motivation has been researched from a variety of viewpoints such as that of student motivation and in the classroom, student motivation and learning, and student motivation and teacher immediacy. This study looks at the motivational factors of communication center tutors (n = 165) across the United States to determine what motivates them…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Communication (Thought Transfer), Tutors, Academic Support Services
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Peasland, Emma L.; Henri, Dominic C.; Morrell, Lesley J.; Scott, Graham W. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Fieldwork is an important part of higher education programmes in geography, geology, environmental sciences and biosciences because it offers opportunities to enhance graduate employability alongside pedagogical and social benefits. However, not all students choose to participate in fieldwork and the reasons that some opt out are unknown. We used…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Student Motivation, Student Participation, Foreign Countries
Precious C. Emelue – ProQuest LLC, 2021
There were concerns regarding the decline in four-year college enrollment suggesting that fewer students persist to continue education beyond high school levels or two-year college levels. Despite the decline in four-year college enrollment, the persistence to graduation with an associate degree was stable. There was a gap in literature regarding…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Motivation, Adult Learning, Associate Degrees
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Yu-Cin Jian; Leo Yuk Ting Cheung – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Eye-movement technology has been often used to examine reading processes, but research has seldom examined the relationship between the reading process and comprehension performance, and whether the relationships are similar or different across grades. To investigate this, we conducted a 3-year longitudinal study starting at grade 4, with 175…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Xiaoxuan Fang; Davy Tsz Kit Ng; Manwai Yuen – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
To promote computational thinking in mathematics education, Scratch is used to foster students' computational thinking and mathematical understanding. However, students face challenges in block-based programming environments, such as having low motivation, high anxiety, and cognitive loads. This study combined the pedagogical values of Geogebra…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Mental Computation, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5
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Hui-Fang Shang – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Numerous studies have been conducted to improve students' writing performance through flipped instruction. However, some researchers question its effectiveness due to a lack of systematic design. This study aimed to create a flipped writing environment and investigate the effects of EFL students' writing motivation, metacognitive awareness, and…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Wargo, Katalin – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
The author provides a conceptual framework that illustrates the spectrum of authentic writing assignments and operationalizes authenticity, in an effort to guide practitioners toward crafting writing assignments that are meaningful for students by reflecting and replicating the kinds of writing that occur outside of the academic context. The…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Student Motivation, Authentic Learning, Writing Processes
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Turner, Heather – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore the motivation and satisfaction of part-time PhD students in the USA through the lens of self-determination theory (SDT). Design/methodology/approach: Following an explanatory sequential mixed methods design, data sources consisted of a survey (N = 100) and focus groups (N = 20) of part-time PhD students.…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, Doctoral Students, Student Motivation, Student Satisfaction
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Affuso, Gaetana; Zannone, Anna; Esposito, Concetta; Pannone, Maddalena; Miranda, Maria Concetta; De Angelis, Grazia; Aquilar, Serena; Dragone, Mirella; Bacchini, Dario – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the contribution of teacher support and parental monitoring to academic performance over three years, testing the mediating role of self-determined motivation and academic self-efficacy and establishing whether the role of teachers and parents varies over time. A total of 419 adolescents--201 males (48%) and 218…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Parent Role, Parenting Styles, Self Efficacy
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García, Agustín J.; Fong, Carlton J.; Regalado, Yvette M. – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
In the USA, over 600,000 student-athletes participate in nationally organized intercollegiate sports and occupy socially prominent spaces on college campuses. Although their athletic accomplishments often garner much attention, there is growing interest in collegiate student-athletes' academic achievement and its precursors. One set of factors…
Descriptors: Student Athletes, College Students, College Athletics, Student Motivation
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Dubey, Pushkar; Pradhan, Resham Lal; Sahu, Kailash Kumar – Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2023
Purpose: With the advent of the COVID-19 and increased access to Internet technologies, students tend to use e-learning technologies for improved academic results, and since then, improving student engagement in a virtual space became a difficult task for educational institutions globally. The present study aims to examine the effect of key…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Open Education
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Gaspard, Hanna; Parrisius, Cora; Nagengast, Benjamin; Trautwein, Ulrich – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
Prior research has shown that brief motivation interventions, such as interventions targeting students' perceptions concerning relevance of the learning material, can have long-lasting effects on students' motivation and performance. However, the educational contexts in which these interventions have been implemented have their own motivational…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
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