BACKGROUND Students' perspective on education is of crucial importance for its effectivity, but students' opinions are seldom acknowledged by teachers and designers. Student participation in the educational design process could be a suitable tool to better take students' preferences into account. However, for effective participatory design, it is necessary to know whether students have stable p...

In this essay, we appeal to conceptual and empirical research establish that autonomy meaningfulness, when understood concretely realistically, remain possible for frail dependent elders. Contrary ageist cultural attitudes, relationships render frailty dependence compatible with the exercise of autonomous agency a life meaning. This conclusion is important not only goal supporting elders but al...

Purpose The present quantitative-descriptive study aims to measure the level of English language learning autonomy pre-service teachers. Design/methodology/approach A short list questionnaire developed by Dixon (2011) was administered 61 teachers enrolled in Western Mindanao State University order their autonomy. Differences on levels across participants’ gender, number languages spoken and fir...

BACKGROUND Self-determination theory (SDT) of motivations distinguishes between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. Intrinsic motivation is observed when one engages in an activity out of genuine interest and is truly self-determined. Intrinsic motivation is the desired type of motivation for study as it is associated with deep learning, better performance and positive well-being in comparison...

Human behavior and cognition result from a complex pattern of interactions between brain regions. The flexible reconfiguration of these patterns enables behavioral adaptation, such as the acquisition of a new motor skill. Yet, the degree to which these reconfigurations depend on the brain's baseline sensorimotor integration is far from understood. Here, we asked whether spontaneous fluctuations...

Goal-driven autonomy (GDA) is a reflective model of goal reasoning that controls the focus of an agent’s planning activities by dynamically resolving unexpected discrepancies in the world state, which frequently arise when solving tasks in complex environments. GDA agents have performed well on such tasks by integrating methods for discrepancy recognition, explanation, goal formulation, and goa...

Performer autonomy (or self-control) has consistently been shown to enhance motor learning, and it can also provide immediate benefits for motor performance. Autonomy is also a key variable in the OPTIMAL theory of motor learning (Wulf & Lewthwaite, 2016). It is assumed to contribute to enhanced expectancies and goal-action coupling, affecting performance effectiveness and efficiency. The purpo...

In any given learning context, there are constraints on the development of learner autonomy. However, this does not mean that developing autonomy is not feasible. In this paper, I firstly describe student passivity in Bachelor of Arts Graduation Paper (BAGP) writing in a four-year BA Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) program in a Chinese teachers’ university. I then present how stud...

the purpose of this study is investigation the impact of components of action-centered team leadership on team synergy development has been with mediator role of individual learning and team skills. the research method is descriptive-correlation and was based on path analysis. statistical population included all staff of general administration of tax affairs of hamadan province comprised of 518...