Effects of different learning materials on student motivation and learning resultsAbstract: In the context of academic teaching and learning different materials and media can be used. Widespread is the application ...
Abstract: The use of digital media in education can bring great benefits and its use in schooling is steadily increasing. Administrating paper- versus computer-based as well as fixed-item versus adaptive tests could create differences in ...
Summary: A social identity model of effort exertion in groups is presented. In contrast to most traditional research on productivity and performance motivation, the model is assumed to apply to groups of all sizes and nature, and to all membership ...
Abstract: This paper studies the relationship between frequent intercultural contacts and the willingness to work abroad. The classical contact hypothesis, the willingness to work abroad and individualism-collectivism as a personality trait were taken ...
Zusammenfassung: Es besteht Grund zu der Annahme, daß Führungskräfte mit hohem Machtmotiv durch MbO-Trainings stärker motiviert werden und deshalb mehr davon profitieren als solche mit niedrigem Machtmotiv. Dazu wurden Hypothesen formuliert, die einen ...
Summary: The recent hardware revolution has provided the prerequisites for the extensive use of computers both for school and vocational education and training. The findings of the psychology of learning, however, are not always adequately taken into ...
Summary: The chances of developing academic motivation among students in vocational education are essentially determined by the conditions of learning in schools. Appealing and motivating lessons ought to arouse interest in participation and active ...
Summary: Results of (in most cases) quasi-experimental studies concerning mixed-sex or single-sex schooling are inconsistent. Many reported «effects» of coeducation vs. single-sex education are probably due to self-selection of school types (by pupils or ...
Summary: Sixty-six university students participated in a computer-based training program on motivational learning strategies. The program dealt with a strategy to generate a learning intention by identifying the personal (task) value of information which ...
On the Trail of a Phenomenon: Casual LearnersSummary: The time students spent on learning at home can be regarded as an important variable of the learning process. In the present study, the phenomenon of “casual learners” is investigated. Over a period ...
Self Regulation: Dead End or a Path with a Research Perspective? Comments on the Contributions of the Special IssueSummary: This commentary first highlights potential reasons for the current importance of the concept of self-regulated learning in ...
A limited number of studies have addressed the effects of pay characteristics on both intrinsic and extrinsic types of motivations within an organizational setting. While the relationships have been documented in a number of studies, research has been ...
Students holding less prestigious technological baccalaureates underachieve in college compared to those who have a general baccalaureate. Because they are also suspected of having lower intellectual ability, the stereotype threat hypothesis (Steele, 1997)...
Abstract: The current study tests the hypothesis that people are more likely to maintain an action in spite of permanent failure feedback the more positive affects they anticipate with a possible success, respectively, the more negative affects they ...
Abstract: Solidarity in the classic sense pertains to a cohesion among humans that entails physical contact, shared emotions, and common goals or projects. Characteristic cases are to be found among families, close friends, or co-workers. The present ...
Abstract: Both lay persons and professionals have been repeatedly shown to be barely above chance in detecting deception. One reason for this may be the use of common sense assumptions about indicators of deception which do not correspond to objective ...
Abstract: In this paper we review the basic assumptions formulated by Jack Brehm in 1966 in his theory of psychological reactance and we sample some interesting directions of research on reactance that have been carried out by social psychologists during ...
Regulatory Focus - An OverviewAbstract. According to the regulatory focus theory (RFT; Higgins, 1997) individuals can reach goals through two varying self-regulatory systems: either by focusing on their ideals and profit whereby they use promotion ...
Abstract. Research and theoretical developments on the theory of cognitive dissonance are reviewed. After considering the self-consistency, self-affirmation, and aversive consequences revisions, the authors review research that has challenged each of the ...