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50 Years of ERIC
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Hofer, Manfred; Kuhnle, Claudia; Kilian, Britta; Fries, Stefan – Learning and Instruction, 2012
The predictive power of cognitive ability and self-control strength for self-reported grades and an achievement test were studied. It was expected that the variables use of time structure, academic procrastination, and motivational interference during learning further aid in predicting students' achievement because they are operative in situations…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Achievement Tests
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Hofer, Manfred; Kuhnle, Claudia; Kilian, Britta; Marta, Elena; Fries, Stefan – Learning and Instruction, 2011
It was hypothesized that students' value orientations are connected to their experience of motivational interference in a conflict between a school- and a leisure-related activity as well as to school marks as indicators of learning outcomes. In a self-report study with Italian adolescents (N = 433; M = 14.5 years) using a school-leisure conflict…
Descriptors: Conflict, Academic Achievement, Multidimensional Scaling, Student Motivation
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Hofer, Manfred; Fries, Stefan; Helmke, Andreas; Kilian, Britta; Kuhnle, Claudia; Zivkovic, Ilija; Goellner, Richard; Helmke, Tuyet – Learning and Instruction, 2010
The experience of motivational interference during studying and leisure in a school-leisure conflict and its relationship to pupils' value orientations were investigated in a self-report study of Vietnamese pupils (N = 346, mean age = 15 years). The results were compared with a combined sample consisting of pupils from nine other countries (N =…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Values
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Hofer, Manfred; Schmid, Sebastian; Fries, Stefan; Dietz, Franziska; Clausen, Marten; Reinders, Heinz – Learning and Instruction, 2007
In a self-report study, students (N = 704, mean age: 13.5 years) were confronted with two scenarios, depicting situations of motivational conflict. They were asked to choose between a school and a leisure activity. A model was tested with value orientations as determinants and successful self-regulation as the consequence of the decision reached…
Descriptors: Conflict, Values, Models, Self Motivation
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Fries, Stefan; Horz, Holger; Haimerl, Charlotte – Learning and Instruction, 2006
Two studies investigated how quality expectations affect students' outcomes of media-based learning. Experiment 1 (N=62) demonstrated that students expecting a high-end computer-based training programme learned most, whereas students expecting a programme of ambiguous quality learned least and students having no expectations performed in between.…
Descriptors: Expectation, Program Effectiveness, Experiments, Computer Assisted Instruction