Development of the Efficacy Beliefs for Conceptual Change Learning Questionnaire     

Mesut Saçkes  Kathy Cabe Trundle  Bruce W. Tuckman  Lawrence A. Krissek 《Journal of Experimental Education》2013,81(4):338-351

The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to assess college students’ efficacy beliefs for conceptual change and to examine the psychometric properties of the instrument. Participants were 692 students. Results of the confirmatory factor analysis supported the hypothesized single factor structure of Efficacy Beliefs for Conceptual Change Learning Questionnaire providing evidence for the construct validity. Evidence for concurrent validity also is provided. On the basis of the evidence provided in this study, the questionnaire appears to produce valid and reliable scores for college students. With the use of the questionnaire, conceptual change researchers might be able to better assess the relationship between students’ efficacy beliefs and the change in their conceptual understandings of various science concepts.  相似文献   

Who am I Between “US” and “THEM”?   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Mualla Selçuk 《Religious education (Chicago, Ill.)》2013,108(5):511-516

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Research From Professional Development Schools; Can We Live Up to the Potential?     

Dorene Ross  Mary Brownell  Paul Sindelar  Fran Vandiver 《Peabody Journal of Education》2013,88(3-4):209-223

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Visiting Shrines: A Turkish Religious Practice and Its Mental Health Implications     

Deniz Canel-Çınarbaş  Ayşe Çiftçi  Gökçe Bulgan 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2013,35(1):16-32

The purpose of the present study was to explore through qualitative methodology the practice of visiting shrines, a religious practice indigenous to Turkish Muslims, and its potential mental health benefits. Thirteen individuals were interviewed at two shrines in Istanbul, Turkey. The researchers focused on visitors’ presenting issues, beliefs regarding the practice, the mental health benefits of the visit, and the behaviors that the visitors engaged in during their visit. The data were analyzed using the Consensual Qualitative Research method. Five domains emerged from the data: (i) degree of religiosity and duties, (ii) knowledge and beliefs about shrines, (iii) purpose of visits, (iv) activities during the visit, and (v) experience and impact of the visit. The findings were discussed based on the mental health benefits of visiting shrines and the counseling and cultural implications.  相似文献   

Grade level, study time, and grade retention and their effects on motivation, self-regulated learning strategies, and mathematics achievement: a structural equation model     

Pedro Rosário  José Carlos Núñez  António Valle  Julio González-Pienda  Abílio Lourenço 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2013,28(4):1311-1331

The present study complements previous research findings with new data to improve our understanding of the relationship between motivational variables and academic performance in math mediated by self-regulated learning (SRL). A structural equation model with predictor (i.e., grade retention, grade level, and study time), process (i.e., perceived usefulness of SRL strategies, self-efficacy for the use of SRL strategies, and reported use of SRL), and product variables (i.e., academic achievement in mathematics) is proposed. The model was analyzed in two samples of data (calibration and validation samples). The first sample served to fit and respecify the model, and the second one was used to analyze the consistency of the findings of the first sample. A sample of 756 middle school Portuguese students participated in the current study. The results indicate that SRL is positively and significantly related to academic achievement and that the latter is, in turn, powerfully determined by perceived usefulness and self-efficacy, although students’ reported use of SRL strategies decreases from 7th to 9th grades. Self-efficacy and perceived usefulness of SRL strategies were also found to decrease as grade retention increased. These results are discussed with regard to the relevance of self-efficacy and perceived usefulness of SRL strategies in increasing academic achievement.  相似文献   

21 Teachers of Wichita,Kan., Comment on Dr. Lloyd N. Morrisetfs Article The Curriculum and Life     

Susan Brand  Rita Dunn  Fran Greb 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(5):268-273

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Testing a model of teaching for anxiety and success for English language teaching     

Evrim Önem  İclal Ergenç 《Cambridge Journal of Education》2013,43(3):357-376

Much research has shown that there is a negative relationship between high levels of anxiety and success for English language teaching. This paper aimed to test a model of teaching for anxiety and success in English language teaching to affect anxiety and success levels at the same time in a control-experiment group with pre- and post-test study design. Anxiety levels were measured by anxiety questionnaires and electroencephalograph recordings of brain waves and success was measured by grammar tests prepared by the researcher. Results of Mann–Whitney U Test, Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test and ANOVA pointed to a statistically significant difference in anxiety and success levels between the experiment and control group. Discussion of the results as well as implications for future research is presented.  相似文献   

Evaluation of retirement planning programs: A qualitative analysis of methodologies and efficacy     

Cristineide Leandro-França  Sheila Giardini Murta  Douglas A. Hershey  Leonardo Barbosa Martins 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(7):497-512

ABSTRACT

The objective of this integrative literature review was to evaluate the quality of retirement planning programs described in the extant literature. This was accomplished through a qualitative analysis of methodological and efficacy criteria as described by Flay et al. (2005), Kazdin (2010, 2011 and Murta (2005). Several databases were consulted in searching for retirement program articles including: Academic Search Premier, Medline, PsycInfo, and Web of Science, among others. Retirement planning intervention articles published in English, Portuguese, and Spanish were considered, with a focus on their evaluation methods and results. Eleven studies were identified that described the procedures for both program implementation and intervention evaluation. Results revealed methodological shortcomings in the papers reviewed, with concerns being related to a lack of experimental or quasiexperimental approaches, a failure to use previously validated measurement instruments and longitudinal assessments, and insufficiently robust data analysis procedures. That said, however, there was evidence from multiple investigations that the intervention programs examined led to increases in knowledge, positive changes in attitudes linked to retirement, and an increase in retirement-linked planning and preparation behaviors. Identification of strengths and weaknesses in the methods used and efficacy of these interventions could facilitate the construction of a research agenda aimed at promoting more favorable research designs. Use of more rigorous designs would stand to improve the internal validity of these retirement programs and, consequently, progress in this field.  相似文献   

Some ethical concerns in Ed-tech consultancies across borders   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

François Marchessou 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2000,48(4):110-114

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Recognition and reproduction of Bender-Gestalt figures: A developmental study of the lag between perception and performance     

Erica Labrentz  Fran Linkenhoker  P. G. Aaron 《Psychology in the schools》1976,13(2):128-133

The performance of 132 pre- and primary school children on a Bender-Gestalt copying task was compared with that of a multiple choice version that was specially constructed by systematically varying four attributes of the stimulus figures. Significant correlation coefficients were obtained between the copying and recognition scores at all age levels except one. The multiple choice version was also as successful as the copying test in predicting reading achievement scores.  相似文献