The study investigates one mathematics teacher’s implementation of formative assessment and its effects on students’ self-regulated learning (SRL). A questionnaire administered before after the eight-month long intervention shows a significant effect, compared to two control classes, motivational beliefs involved in SRL. Qualitative data notable enhancement SRL behavior classroom. Analysis impl...

BACKGROUND Injury knowledge and beliefs influence uptake of prevention programmes, but the relationship between knowledge, beliefs and adherence remains unclear. AIM To describe injury knowledge and beliefs among youth female soccer coaches and players, and to identify the relationship between these factors, different delivery strategies of the FIFA 11+ programme and adherence. METHODS A su...

It is often said that ‘belief aims at truth’. This is presented sometimes as a truism, sometimes as capturing an essential and constitutive feature of belief and of inquiry. It is a truism that to believe something is to believe that it is true, and that in this sense beliefs are directed towards truth. It is also a truism that we aim at having true beliefs rather than false ones, and that in t...

Researchers have suggested that general self-efficacy (GSE) can substantially contribute to organizational theory, research, and practice. Unfortunately, the limited construct validity work conducted on commonly used GSE measures has highlighted such potential problems as low content validity and multidimension-ality. The authors developed a new GSE (NGSE) scale and compared its psycho-metric p...

Logics of rational agency try to capture, in logic, various facets of human mental state, and place normative relationships among them. One category of mental state includes informational attitudes, and notions such as beliefs and knowledge fall into this category. In the past thirty years, logics of knowledge and beliefs have become an industry , ranging from philosophy, to computer science an...