This study examined the effects of perceived parental involvement and autonomy support on academic performance and substance use among 171 adolescents. Participants reported their perception of parental involvement and autonomy support, reasons for doing school work, ability to control their attention and behavior, school grade, classroom disruptive behavior and substance use. Teacher and schoo...

Language learning research in Japan has categorized students’ motivational orientations as multifaceted and leaning towards extrinsic orientations. Meanwhile, as self-determination theory correlates intrinsic motivation to academic success, we argue that enhancing intrinsic motivation is necessary to foster autonomous learners. Many studies categorize motivational orientations, but rarely, have...

Teachers should be received specialized training, have higher education workers of professional quality. In order to develop the high quality teacher, teacher training curriculum should focus on professional skills. Our school has to strengthen the professional skills of teachers as a breakthrough in curriculum mode innovation, by enhancing practice teaching in the curriculum, strengthen the et...

Despite its growing popularity, school-based management is seldom evaluated systematically with respect to its impact on student performance. This study examines the impact of the current school autonomy reform in Nicaragua on learning within an educational production function approach. Results show that autonomous public schools are indeed making more decisions about pedagogical and administra...

In this paper, we present the first application of demonstration learning to more than two robots and perform an analysis of the scalability of the Confidence-Based Autonomy (CBA) multi-robot demonstration learning algorithm. Through experimental evaluation using up to seven Sony AIBO robots, we examine how the number of robots being taught by a human teacher at the same time affects the number...