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Direct linkGarcía-Pérez, Omar; Inda-Caro, Mercedes; Fernández-García, Carmen-María; Torío-López, Susana – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
There is a need to improve students' motivation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Student's academic choices are significantly influenced by parental behaviours and even more so by how those behaviours are perceived by the students. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of perceived family…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Secondary School Students, Grade 10
Pinto, Maria; Fernández-Pascual, Rosaura; Marco, Francisco Javier García – College & Research Libraries, 2019
Preference for autonomous versus directed learning for the acquisition of information competencies (ICs) was analyzed among undergraduate social science students according to gender, degree program, belief in importance, and self-efficacy. Data were gathered using the IL-HUMASS (Information Literacy Humanities Social Sciences) online survey from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Social Sciences, Undergraduate Students
Ardura, Diego; Galán, Arturo – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
The aim of the present investigation was to analyse the role of academic self-efficacy and approaches to learning in general and in Physics and Chemistry academic achievements. The sample comprised 507 secondary school students of two Spanish schools and the study was conducted in the context of a Physics and Chemistry subject. Structural equation…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Achievement, Learning Strategies, Self Efficacy
Ayuso, Natalia; Fillola, Elena; Masia, Belen; Murillo, Ana C.; Trillo-Lado, Raquel; Baldassarri, Sandra; Cerezo, Eva; Ruberte, Laura; Mariscal, M. Dolores; Villarroya-Gaudo, Maria – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2021
Contribution: Significant gender differences are observed on primary school students' perception of self-efficacy and test anxiety in mathematics. Girls perceive themselves to be significantly worse than boys in mathematics and report higher test anxiety toward mathematics exams. Gender differences in self-efficacy become more pronounced as…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, STEM Education, Elementary School Students
Giuseppina Maria Cardella; Brizeida Raquel Hernández Sánchez; João Manuel Rosado de Miranda Justo; José Carlos Sánchez García – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Social entrepreneurship is a research topic that has received great attention from academics especially in recent years. However, the results in the literature are far from univocal, for example, there is no clear conceptual delimitation of the term, and it is often analyzed using the same theoretical models of traditional entrepreneurship. With…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, College Students, Empathy, Social Problems
Pinto, María; Fernández-Pascual, Rosaura – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
Restricted to five Spanish public universities, this paper examines knowledge about information literacy competencies--that is, the objective dimension--among a population of social sciences students, as well as two subjective dimensions: students' belief in the importance of information literacy, hereafter called "belief-in-importance",…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Minimum Competency Testing, Information Literacy, Knowledge Level
Ardura, Diego; Pérez-Bitrián, Alberto – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
The present study aims to analyse the effect of motivational variables and previous academic achievement on students' future choice of chemistry once this subject becomes optional in the educational system. Toward this goal, the translation and adaptation of the Science Motivation Questionnaire II (SMQII) has been undertaken in our investigation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Motivation, Science Interests
Peña-Calvo, José-Vicente; Inda-Caro, Mercedes; Rodríguez-Menéndez, Carmen; Fernández-García, Carmen-María – Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Background: This study was designed to determine the effect of perceived supports and barriers on self-efficacy beliefs and other social-cognitive variables related to second-year science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students' career development. Social cognitive career theory (SCCT) states that career interest is influenced by…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Self Efficacy, College Students, Career Development
Download full textPracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
Cored Bandrés, Sergio; Liesa Orús, Marta; Vázquez Toledo, Sandra; Latorre Cosculluela, Cecilia; Anzano Oto, Silvia – Education Sciences, 2021
Higher Education institutions must respond to the major challenges posed by the technological transformations of recent years. For this, one of the key aspects is that the teachers working in them are trained to incorporate these technologies in teaching-learning processes, which requires them to be digitally competent. To analyse how gender…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Technological Literacy, Teacher Competencies, Gender Differences
Ardura, Diego; Pérez-Bitrián, Alberto – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
The main goal of the present investigation was to analyze the effect of motivation towards physics & chemistry on achievement in secondary school students. We focused our interest on the comparison between students who chose the subject when becoming optional in the Spanish educational system and those who opted out. Our analyses uncovered the…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Student Motivation, Physics, Chemistry
Fuertes, Ana María de Caso; Blanco Fernández, Jana; García Mata, Ma de los Ángeles; Rebaque Gómez, Alfredo; Pascual, Rocío García – Education Sciences, 2020
The present study aims to understand the relationship between the big five factors of personality and academic motivation. In addition, the following variables are taken into consideration; sex, age and type of educational studies. A quantitative methodology is used, in base to a not experimental, correlational study. The sample is composed of 514…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Achievement Need, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
