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Issues Of Online Distance Education: Learning Motivation Of Current And Prospective School Teachers, Anna Toom
Issues Of Online Distance Education: Learning Motivation Of Current And Prospective School Teachers, Anna Toom
Graduate School of Education Publications and Research
In this work, LM in three categories of students – motivated, unmotivated and overmotivated – was explored. Fifty graduate students, which were current and prospective school teachers and took the author’s online psychology courses in 2012-2013, participated in the study. The research methodology included developing the rules of coding students’ course work, designing the 100-scale of LM for representing their individual as well as collective data, and collecting info about students’ academic achievement in this course. According to the results, students’ LM has two co-existing components – pragmatic (grade-oriented) and cognitive (knowledge-oriented). Three mentioned categories of students differ in quantity …
Issues Of Today's Online Education: Psychological Portrait Of The Problem Student, Anna Toom
Issues Of Today's Online Education: Psychological Portrait Of The Problem Student, Anna Toom
Graduate School of Education Publications and Research
The online problem student is one who fails to benefit from the modern learning environment based on the information technologies. The purpose of this work was to find out whether psychological characteristics helpful for identifying problem students in a traditional classroom are the same in a new learning environment. The study was conducted with 123 graduate students, who took Dr. Toom’s online psychology courses within three consecutive semesters of 2013. The research methodology included an analysis of the students’ coursework and academic performance within the semester and mathematical analysis of the collected data. According to the results, four psychological characteristics …