A quasi-experimental study explored the impact of authentic learning exercises on preservice teachers’ motivational beliefs and intentions to integrate technology, as well as the ability of those beliefs to predict intentions. A questionnaire was used to assess 104 preservice teachers’ expectancy-value related motivational beliefs, namely intrinsic and extrinsic goal orientations, task value, s...

This research examined the relative effectiveness of instructional versus motivational self-talk for skilled athletes. Forty Gaelic footballers completed a shooting accuracy task with their dominant and non-dominant feet. Results indicated significantly more accurate performance when executing the task using the dominant foot and motivational as compared to instructional self-talk. No differenc...

Introduction This paper discusses the role of virtual university students' motivational strategies for learning. The paper is based on a study, which is part of a larger IQ-FORM research project (WWW-site http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/iqform/). First is presented the aim and the theoretical background of IQ FORM research project and then is introduced theoretical framework for motivational strateg...

The Effects of Learning Self-Regulated Learning Strategies on High School Students' Math Problem-Solving Skills B. Shaalchi, Ph.D. Y. Rezaapoor J. Baabaapoor Kheyrodin, Ph.D. M. Alizaad Sardroodi F. Abdollaahi To see the effects of learning self-regulated learning strategies on math problem-solving skills among high school students, a sample of 271 randomly selected h...

Recent theory and research are reviewed regarding self-related motives (self-enhancement, self-verification, and self-expansion) and self-conscious emotions (guilt, shame, pride, social anxiety, and embarrassment), with an emphasis on how these motivational and emotional aspects of the self might be related. Specifically, these motives and emotions appear to function to protect people's social ...

growing number of evidence indicates that individuals' motivational structure - the patterning of an individual's way of relating to goals - plays an important role in increasing the risk of alcohol use. adaptive motivational structure which includes pursuit of important, subjectively attainable, alcohol-unrelated goals is inversely related to substance use. the strength of this relationship in...

the aim of this study was to determine the interactional effects of various video shows (skilled and self-model) and feedback type on performance and learning of dart throwing skill. 90 volunteers were randomly divided into 6 groups including self-control, experimenter control and yoked feedback that received either skilled model or self-model. three groups who watched the skilled model observe...

Two studies examined motivational influences on and correlates of defensive pessimism and self-handicapping and investigated the relationship between these two cognitive strategies and performance attainment. The findings indicated that defensive pessimism and self-handicapping have similar motivational profiles, with the primary difference being that self-handicapping represents the absence of...

The purpose of the present study was to describe motivational processes in a situation of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). The study focused on examining whether students representing different motivational orientations would be able to productively function in a CSCL environment in which self-regulation and collaborative inquiry were encouraged. Coping with the new learning en...