In response to calls for reform in undergraduate biology education, we conducted research examining how varying active-learning strategies impacted students' conceptual understanding, attitudes, and motivation in two sections of a large-lecture introductory cell and molecular biology course. Using a quasi-experimental design, we collected quantitative data to compare participants' conceptual un...

The Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) and Sport Education (SE) pedagogical models share several objectives and pedagogical processes. Despite this seemingly uncanny relationship, few studies have examined the efficacy of a hybrid TGfU/SE pedagogical model, particularly how a teacher's utilization of such a model impacts on student motivation. The purpose of the current study was to invest...

While there is a need for business process management professionals in economy, enrolment in IS programs is declining. The resulting gap is even widened by early terminations of students due to various reasons. Missing motivation, as one of these reasons, is tackled by the Active Lab course concept presented in this paper. Such Active Labs are inspired by Social BPM Labs, which represent course...

BACKGROUND Obesity is correlated with a sedentary lifestyle, and the motivation to be active or sedentary is correlated with obesity. The present study tests the hypothesis that the motivation to be active or sedentary is correlated with weight change when children reduce their sedentary behavior. METHODS The motivation to be active or sedentary, changes in weight, and accelerometer assessed ...

Physical inactivity is a major global public health issue associated with a range of chronic disease outcomes. As such, the underlying motivation and barriers to whether or not an individual engages in physical activity is of critical public health importance. This study examines the National Heart Foundation of Australia Heart Week Survey conducted in March 2015. A total of 894 (40% female) Au...

BACKGROUND Cancer is account for 13% of all deaths around the world and is the third cause of mortality in Iran. More than one third of these cases are pre-ventable and about 33% are curable with early detection. The aim of this study was to determine the predictors of cancer early detection (CED) behaviors applying Protection Motivation Theory (PMT). METHODS In this cross-sectional study, cl...

This study investigated determinants of active lifestyles in Singaporean university students. Using confirmatory factor analysis, a measure of lay beliefs concerning athletic ability was confirmed. Other results confirmed hypotheses that beliefs reflecting that athletic ability can be developed over time (incremental beliefs) predict an achievement task (self-referenced) orientation, while beli...

Language production studies tend to investigate central tendencies, though there are extensive individual differences in any production task. Studying this variability in behavior can be revealing of the motivations and consequences of production choices. In a picture-description task, participants used either active object or passive relative clauses to describe animate or inanimate entities i...

Theories of embodied cognition and active vision suggest that perception is constructed through interaction and becomes meaningful because it is grounded in the agent's activity. We developed a model to illustrate and implement these views. Following its intrinsic motivation, the agent autonomously learns to coordinate its motor actions with the information received from its sensory system. Bes...

This study contributes to the understanding of online communities by examining why community members are willing to make active contributions to their community. A model of motivation for such contributions was developed and tested within the context of an online travel community. The results of a factor analysis and a series of reliability tests indicate that the motivation model is valid and ...