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The purpose of this study was to explore and better capture the concept of choking under pressure by operationally redefining it. Choking was examined using a Bayesian approach to internal psychological crisis and the evaluation of the...
The purpose of the present study was to investigate Preservice Teachers' (PT) reasons for teaching and their beliefs about teaching. Specific reasons of PTs for entering the teaching career, and typologies (clusters) of PTs based on...
How do children's career aspirations come to reflect the social inequalities among their elders? One theorist, Linda S. Gottfredson, 1996 was interested in explaining how at-risk children come to define themselves professionally and...
The Effects of the Assessor and Assessee's Roles on Preservice Teachers' Metacognitive Awareness, Performance, and Attitude in a Technology-Related Design Task
Considerable attention has been directed toward the value of peer assessment where learning is enhanced through maximizing the opportunities for students to share their work with others in the assessment process. Although previous...
Self-objectification and social physique anxiety (SPA) were investigated in relation to exercise behaviors. A theoretical model was developed that viewed SPA as a mediating variable between self-objectification and protective/ permissive...
The majority of college students do not read assigned academic materials. This becomes a problem, as long-term mastery and performance outcomes decrease when students merely memorize the material for a test. The goal of this randomized...
The Effects of Guided Imagery and HRV Biofeedback Training on Psychological Variables and Post-Operative Outcome Measures of Orthopaedic Surgical Patients
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is comprised of a range of therapeutic modalities and atypical practices which have been found to successfully accompany standard medical care. Interventions such as guided imagery and stress...
An Investigation of the Effects of Model-Centered Instruction in Individual and Collaborative Contexts: The Case of Acquiring Instructional Design Expertise
This study investigated the effect of model-centered instruction (MCI) in both individual and collaborative contexts. The study focuses on learning effectiveness in acquiring instructional design knowledge, developing mental model of...
Past research suggests that reading comprehension performance relies not solely on cognitive skills such as decoding, vocabulary, and inference skills, but also on attention and behavior. Specifically, the literature has pointed to...
The aim of the present study was to further the conceptual understanding of exertion-pain anxiety. Specifically, the purposes were to induce exertion-pain anxiety, evaluate the effect of wait times on exertion-pain anxiety, and...
The Effects of High-Structure Cooperative versus Low-Structure Collaborative Design on Online Debate in Terms of Decision Making, Critical Thinking, and Interaction Pattern
The current study investigates and compares the effects of high-structure cooperative and low-structure collaborative design on online debate, in terms of decision making, critical thinking, and interaction patterns. The terms ...
The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge and insight into how student- and school-level factors impact mathematics performance. Within the school and student systems, there are numerous variables that can have significant impacts...
The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of the affect and gender of pedagogical agents as learning companions (PALs) on learning, interest, self-efficacy, and agent persona. Two experiments were conducted to examine PALs'...
School library media specialists have a flexible role within the structure of a school's environment, which allows for a unique opportunity to promote students' reading motivation. This study qualitatively explored school library media...
The present study examined Reversal theory (RT), which explains the personality and motivations of individuals as they engage in activity or competition. RT is concerned with two metamotivational states, the telic state and the paratelic...
Multivariate meta-analysis methods typically assume the dependence of effect sizes. One type of experimental-design study that generates dependent effect sizes is the multiple-endpoint study. While the generalized least squares (GLS)...
Previous published investigations into the relationship between the menstrual cycle and sport behavior have focused on physiological variables associated with incidence of injury, specifically ACL laxity. More recent research has begun...
Information and communication technology (ICT) has provided unparalleled access to assessments, information, and instruction for individuals seeking to make career decisions. However, problems with the design and use of this technology...
The growing prevalence of computers, tablets, and educational apps in academic settings has prompted many researchers to investigate the potential benefits and drawbacks of this technology. One of the ways that this technology can...
Modification of Perceived Enjoyment, Exertion and Performance Among Novice and Experienced Exercisers: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Perceptual Change
Regular exercise has been found to be efficacious in the prevention of a variety of diseases, and in maintenance of physical health. Nonetheless, a large number of individuals do not engage in regular exercise. As a result, improving...
Over the past decade, the majority of research on perceived effort in children has emanated from a physiological perspective and has generally focused on the development of RPE scales for children. Although Tenenbaum (1999, 2001) and...
Over the past decade, there has been increasing attention devoted to the use of digital games in education. However, prior studies on game-based learning have found mixed results in transferring in-game performance to other scenarios....
It is beneficial for Chinese English-learners to improve their communicative competence through being taught in a communicative-based class (especially with the use of task-based language teaching, Nuevo, 2006). However, previous studies...
Meta-analytic Structural Equation Modeling (MASEM) has drawn interest from many researchers recently. In doing MASEM, researchers usually first synthesize correlation matrices across studies using meta-analysis techniques and then...
A study was designed to explore a proposed conceptual scheme linking the concepts of perceived exertion, flow, and the attention strategies of association and dissociation. The purpose of the current study was to: 1) examine whether...
Previous research by Biddle (1994) has shown that a great deal of attributional research has focused on athlete's performance outcomes, while only few investigations were aimed toward athlete's responses during athletic competition. In...
In this study, I investigated the effectiveness of a creativity-support system that I developed in the level editor of a learning game called Physics Playground on improving college students’ creativity. Moreover, I investigated the...
While an ever-increasing amount of literature exists regarding various aspects of ADHD, the relationship of functional impairments to important life and social skills, as well as professional functionality remains relatively unexplored....
The purpose of this research study is to develop the Eating Behaviors and Attitudes Inventory (EBAI) as a diagnostic tool and educational device. The EBAI is an instrument that measures women's ability to self-regulate eating behaviors...
This study compares the effect of text-based and narration-based multimedia presentation modalities on the accuracy and efficiency of procedural performance, a combination that the introduction to the New Standards for Elementary, Middle...
The improvement of critical thinking ability among university students is widely accepted as a goal of higher learning. However, as an objective it frequently remains loosely defined in curriculum, and there is little agreement regarding...
This bibliography contains citations about the cognitive information processing (CIP) approach to career development and career services developed at Florida State University. This application of cognitive information processing theory...
The term "academic competence" was coined by Elliott and DiPerna (2000) to describe the entire set of skills and behaviors necessary to achieve success in school. However, the components that comprise the idea of "competence" vary...
DSM-IV-TR based rating scales are among the most common measures of ADHD in adulthood; however, the psychometric properties of these scales are not well-documented. This study uses an IRT model to determine which symptoms (items) best...
The purpose of this study was to test whether or not increased self-esteem can protect against negative consequences of self-objectification. Specifically, a quasi-experimental design, utilizing self-esteem and self-objectification...
Deane (2011) proposed a multi-layer cognitive writing model. The 2009 Cognitively Based Assessment of, for, and as learning (CBAL) Writing pilot assessment was designed to support that multi-layer model of writing. One of the features of...
The purpose of this thesis was to examine the proposed model that perfectionism, perceived stress, and participation in coaching activities predicts burnout with coach status as a moderating variable. Male and female coaches (n=177) over...
Educators today are increasingly interested in using game-based assessment to assess and support students' learning. The present dissertation study investigated how changing a game design element, linearity in gameplay sequences, ...
An experiment was conducted to investigate the cognitions and emotions athletes experience in pressure situations. Athlete participants were asked to read either a low self-presentation script, which de-emphasized self-presentation...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of argumentation scaffolding on problem-solving outcomes and learner motivation in a Problem-Based Learning course. Undergraduate students enrolled in a mandatory introductory...
The importance of students' motivation, volition, and beliefs has been recently emphasized in mathematics education. However, despite extensive research acknowledging students' motivation, and beliefs as critical factors for...
Since Schommer first introduced a survey-approach to assess students' personal epistemology, there has been a proliferation of quantitative research on this topic area. Unfortunately, most of the previous studies did not differentiate...
This study explored maintenance of psychological method use and self-efficacy of method use during and following a systematic psychological skills training (PST) program. A sample size of 44 division-I collegiate athletes (27 males, 17...
Online course evaluations offer a number of advantages over the traditional paper based surveys that are handed out at the end of the semester for students to provide feedback about the course and the instructor. However, low response...
This study examined the effectiveness of the odds-ratio method (Penfield, 2008) and the multinomial logistic regression method (Kato, Moen, & Thurlow, 2009) for measuring differential distractor functioning (DDF) effects in comparison to...
Research has shown that the quality of preschool teacher-child relationships can forecast children's social-emotional development, academic achievement, and school attitude; these benefits are amplified for impoverished children. However...
Many studies have been conducted to evaluate the performance of DIF detection methods, when two groups have different ability distributions. Such studies typically have demonstrated factors that are associated with inflation of Type I...
Mathematics plays an important role in everyday life. Math anxiety has been one of the major reasons that students do not like math mathematics. Many efforts have been done to alleviate learner's math anxiety with respect to curriculum...
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of an intervention â self-generated analogy instruction â on the situational interest (interest generated primarily by certain conditions, stimuli, and/or concrete objects in the...
A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis of Chinese Undergraduate English Language-Learners' Personal Factors and Contextual Factors Based on Self-Determination Theory
This study investigated the relationships among Chinese undergraduate English learners' motivation for learning English (i.e., students' internal choice, students' external pressure), integrative orientation (i.e., students' engagement...
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