PURPOSE A task force identified 4 core properties of motivation-related improvement and developed a medical volunteer program for 63 medical freshmen in 2012. Three overarching topics were examined: What were the contents of the program? Did students' motivation improve? Were the students satisfied with the course? Pretest and posttest motivation levels and program evaluation forms were analyze...

This study was undertaken to assess the critical thinking dispositions of undergraduate college students in a comprehensive university mainland China and examine roles gender major subjects’ dispositions. An adapted Chinese version California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTDI) used survey 534 students. Statistics revealed that over 3/4 subjects were negative their think critically...

International mindedness (IM) is a term often used by the Baccalaureate (IB), international schools and researchers in field of education. However, within discipline music education, this concept remains relatively unexplored. Conducted as scoping review, using Arksey O’Malley's (2005) framework, study charts research literature that explores IM its related concepts education settings. A broad ...

Mindset theory (Gollwitzer, 1990) proposes that deliberative mindsets are marked by more open-minded processing of information, whereas implemental mindsets are characterized by more closed-minded processing. Accordingly, deliberative and implemental mindsets should diVer in selective processing of incidental information when performing a central task. In three experiments, participants in deli...

A brief self-report scale was developed to assess everyday performance failures arising directly or primarily from brief failures of sustained attention (attention-related cognitive errors-ARCES). The ARCES was found to be associated with a more direct measure of propensity to attention lapses (Mindful Attention Awareness Scale--MAAS) and to errors on an existing behavioral measure of sustained...