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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Task value"”.
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Social recovery following first-episode psychosis: the role of negative symptoms and motivation
… 2010). Theories of motivation (e.g. expectancy-value theory; Eccles and Wigfield 2002) describe how self-efficacy beliefs, appraisals of task value, and self-schema may influence behaviour, but minimal research has applied these models to the understanding of negative symptoms and functional …
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Waiting for the right place and right time: belief content correlates of academic procrastination
… The situational variables were course/task self-efficacy, boredom, and task value. It was hypothesized that self-regard, frustration intolerance, grit, and goal orientation would each be associated with self-efficacy, boredom, task value, academic procrastination and academic …
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Modeling Utilization of Planned Information Technology
… of technology use involve user, system, task and organization characteristics as well as externalities which can affect all of these entities. However, measurement of the interaction effects between these entities can act as a proxy for individual attribute values. A model is proposed …
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Parental Differential Treatment With Math: Links to Adolescent Girls' Math Achievement Beliefs
… to girls reporting lower ability perceptions, task-value and intrinsic value in math. Additionally, adolescent girls with younger siblings report lower intrinsic value for math when mothers engage in differential intrusive support towards target females. This occurred even after controlling for …
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Effects of a Weight Training Personalized System of Instruction Course on Self-Efficacy, Behavioral Intent, Fitness Levels and Knowledge
… training, outcome expectancy of weight training, task value efficacy of weight training and expectancy related beliefs of weight training. Methods: Participants (PSI <em>n </em>= 41 and DI <em>n </em>= 30) enrolled in college weight training courses were assessed with a weight training cognitive …
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Generalized sequential assignment problem
… deals with assigning sequentially arriving tasks with stochastic parameters to workers with fixed success rates. The reward of each assignment is the product of the worker's success rate and the task value assigned to the worker. The objective is to maximize the total expected reward. There …
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Factors that influence Doctor of Physical Therapy student satisfaction : a qualitative collective case study.
… and deductive approaches. Situative Expectancy Value Theory (SEVT; Eccles & Wigfield, 2020) framed this study and informed the deductive data analysis approach. Themes from the cross-case analysis revealed sociocognitive factors that influence DPT student satisfaction including learning …
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The Role of Students' Goals and Perceptions of Instrumental Value in The Development of Achievement Motivation at Junior High School
The influence of task value, expectancies, self concept of ability, task difficulty, and anxiety on the development of achievement motivation in junior high school was studied. Measurement instruments for intrinsic, attainment, and instrumental value, developed for use in this study, are described. …
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Graphic Communications Teachers' Concerns and Beliefs Regarding Their Online Teaching of Graphic Communications Hands-On Classes
… about online teaching. For online teachers, task value and cost beliefs were found to have a moderately strong negative correlation to concerns in the Awareness stage, with no significant relationship between expectancy/ability beliefs and any stages of concern. For teachers not teaching …
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Expecting Success: Factors Influencing Ninth Graders' Science Self-Efficacy
… issue, the relative impact of student subjective task value and teacher characteristics is also investigated.</p> <p>It has been well documented that U.S. students are not achieving at satisfactory levels in science. Education policy has focused on improving science teacher quality as one way to …
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Participation factors in optional high school health and physical education
… (SE), perceived autonomy support (PAS), task value (TV), motivational regulation (autonomous, AR; controlled, CR), HPE grade average and body size discrepancy (BSD). Qualitative information was also gathered from students regarding likes and dislikes ofHPE, as well as reasons for their …
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A Model Of Nontraditional College Student Motivation And Success
… student college success using the expectancy-value theory (Eccles et al., 1983) and achievement goals theory (Dweck, 1986; Maehr, 1989; Nicholls, 1984). A Model of Nontraditional College Student Motivation and Success was tested using a sample of undergraduate students enrolled in various …
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A research-informed teaching model for undergraduate learning and research skills development using collaborative enquiry based learning
… responses found that both RiTe and OPTIMAX were valued and enjoyable learning activities. This supports the importance of student evaluation and how learning activities that are positively received by students are an important proxy for learning. Results also indicated the co-production of …
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A qualitative case study exploring the expectancy and value of incorporating service learning in the Catholic independent school classroom as sources of motivation and empowerment for K-12 teachers.
… case study explored the expectancy and value of incorporating service learning in the Catholic independent school classroom as sources of motivation and empowerment for K–12 teachers. Participants were classroom teachers with experience in implementing and participating in service …
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STEM Identity, Sense of Belonging, and Academic Engagement: Motivational Pathways Among Undergraduate STEM Students
… theory (Bandura, 1986) and situated expectancy–value theory (Eccles & Wigfield, 2002), this dissertation examines how STEM identity development, sense of belonging, and self-efficacy jointly support students’ motivation and engagement. Although recent work has expanded multidimensional …
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The Distracted Driver: Modeling the Impact of Information Bandwidth, in -Vehicle Task Priority, and Spatial -Separation on Driver Performance and Attention Allocation
… into the automobile creates additional tasks that drivers may perform while driving. To the extent that these devices interfere with driving performance there will be concerns for safety. In three experiments, we explored how characteristics of the IVT task as well as the traffic …
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Exploring the Effectiveness of Embedding a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience in a Science Content Course for Pre-Service Elementary Teachers
… Intrinsic and Extrinsic Goal Orientation, Task Value, Control of Learning Beliefs, and Self-efficacy for Learning as factors. Using pre-course data, I established factor structures with exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and documented strong internal reliability for all subscales. Both …
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Examining the Role of Executive Functions and Motivation in Conceptual Change in a Physics Task
The alteration of students’ ideas in favour of more scientific ones is known as conceptual change. The process might involve a combination of both higher-order cognitive skills and motivational attitudes of students, but few studies have explored all three together. The current study examines the …
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