This study is to identify the level of learning strategies among Malaysian future educators, examine the relationship between self-efficacy, learning strategies, and academic achievement, determine whether gender have significant difference in self-efficacy and learning strategies. There are 310 respondents and the sample is undergraduates from the Faculty of Educational Studies, UPM. The instr...

The ability to delay gratification among learners could serve as an effective learning strategy useful to diminish the detrimental effect of test anxiety. Academic delay of gratification refers to students' postponement of immediately available opportunities to satisfy impulses in favor of pursuing chosen important academic rewards or goals that are temporally remote but ostensibly more valuabl...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between a tutor’s advice and a student’s questionings, and the way in which it develops a student’s self-regulation skill. Firstly we offer that a tutor’s advice is one component that trains a student’s self-regulation skill. Through analysis of interactive learning opportunities between academic departments, we discovered that a tutor’s ...

Learning to learn and learning to cooperate are two important goals for individuals. Moreover, self regulation has been identified as fundamental to prevent school failure. The goal of the present study was to assess the interactions between self-regulated learning, cooperative learning and academic self-efficacy in secondary education students experiencing cooperative learning as the main peda...

Many important learning tasks feel uninteresting and tedious to learners. This research proposed that promoting a prosocial, self-transcendent purpose could improve academic self-regulation on such tasks. This proposal was supported in 4 studies with over 2,000 adolescents and young adults. Study 1 documented a correlation between a self-transcendent purpose for learning and self-reported trait...

OBJECTIVE Student mental health may suffer due to unreasonable expectations associated with academic entitlement; permissive parenting may be one source of these expectations. The authors examined the role of academic entitlement as a mediator of the relationship between permissive parenting and psychological functioning. PARTICIPANTS Participants were 524 undergraduate students at a single i...

Research has shown that classroom-based reading strategy training does not necessarily result in effective, self-regulated behaviours when students engage with authentic academic their own study contexts. In light of this problem, our examines the effects an instructional scaffold combined teacher feedback, designed to foster students’ self-regulation Over a 5-week period, read five texts and p...

Background: Education plays an important role on a personal level because it is related to personal control, a healthy lifestyle, greater income, employment, interpersonal relations, and social support (Mirowsky & Ross, 2003). Self-regulation is the procedure implemented by an individual striving to reach a goal and consists of two inter-related strategies: (1) the identification of the desired...

Numerous researches on information and communication technology (ICT)-induced multitasking among students document a number of unfavourable consequences, such as heightened distraction and less attention, hampered learning and hindered productivity at the expense of better academic performance. This study focused on the effect of information and communication technology induced multitasking on ...