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Koh, Caroline – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2008
The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of group work as a strategy for attribution retraining and improving students' motivational styles. Students were first categorised into one of three motivational styles: learned helplessness, self-worth motivation and mastery orientation. In the intervention procedure, selected students…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Intervention, Helplessness, Retraining
Koh, Caroline; Tan, Oon Seng; Wang, C. K. John; Ee, Jessie; Liu, Woon Chia – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2007
The benefits of cooperative learning strategies, such as group project work, have been advocated in a wide range of educational contexts. There is however, scant information on the outcome of such programs on students of low academic ability. In this study, interviews were conducted with four groups of low-ability students, with the aim of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Academic Ability, Learning Strategies, Cooperative Learning
Koh, Caroline; Galloway, David – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2006
High levels of academic achievement in Asian educational systems have generated interest in the study of motivational patterns of students in these contexts. The objectives of this paper are firstly, to provide a review of existing literature on the study of motivational styles amongst students and secondly, to identify the occurrence of different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Attribution Theory, Mastery Tests