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Ainley, Mary; Corrigan, Matthew; Richardson, Nicholas – Learning and Instruction, 2005
In this investigation young adolescent students (N=181) engaged in an interactive computer reading task. The aim was to explore sequences of students' affective responses to expository texts by identifying their character, intensity and their relationship with further text processing. Affective responses were measured using probes consisting of…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Popular Culture, Educational Psychology, Reading Comprehension
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Volet, S. E. – Learning and Instruction, 1997
The study of relationships between action control, motivation control, perceptions of course directions, and students' goals for 92 Australian undergraduates revealed different patterns for direction and effort and changing patterns from task on-set to off-set. Overall higher levels of effort and performance appear to require positive appraisals…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries