Drawing on Bandura's triadic reciprocal causation model, perceived classroom environment and three intrapersonal factors (mathematics self-efficacy, maths interest and academic self-concept) were considered as predictors of test performance in two correlated mathematics assessments: a public examination (GCSE) and an on-line test, both taken by UK pupils at age 16 (n = 6689). Intrapersonal fact...

The purpose of this study was to compare dental students' and faculty members' perceptions of classroom incivility and to determine how many students willingly engage in uncivil behavior in the classroom. A web-based survey research design was used to obtain information regarding uncivil classroom behaviors from dental students and full- and part-time dental faculty members at a midwestern U.S....

Web-based information and the traditional classroom: similarities and differences. In B. H. Khan (Ed.), Web-Based Instruction (pp. 41-46). Englewood Cliffs, New. strategies and the extent to which there was a difference in the use of the into specific instructional practices are: (1) identifying similarities and differences, (2) Marzano's 21 research-based instructional strategies in their clas...

this study examined naturally-occurring university classroom interactions at iranian universities and provided an analysis of silence patterns as politeness strategies used by male and female students. since empirical studies of silence in classroom settings are scarce, this paper aimed to explain such phenomena using participant interviews, classroom observation and detailed discourse analysis...

The development of network technology brings wider imaginary space for teaching techniques reforms. The research on application of WeChat as the most popular social information platform in classroom teaching is receiving increasingly more attention. This paper discusses the establishment of WeChat-based piano teaching communication platform. WeChat platform provides students with creation, comm...