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Social and Behavioral Sciences

2014

Beliefs

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Instructional Strategies To Promote Incremental Beliefs In Youth Sport, Stewart A. Vella, Dylan P. Cliff, Anthony D. Okely, Dana L. Weintraub, Thomas N. Robinson Jan 2014

Instructional Strategies To Promote Incremental Beliefs In Youth Sport, Stewart A. Vella, Dylan P. Cliff, Anthony D. Okely, Dana L. Weintraub, Thomas N. Robinson

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Implicit beliefs about the nature of human abilities have significant motivational, behavioral, and affective consequences. The purpose of this article was to review the application of implicit beliefs to the youth sport context and to provide theoretically derived and evidence-based instructional strategies to promote adaptive implicit beliefs about human abilities within this context. A narrative overview of theory and a review of research pertaining to implicit beliefs in education, sport, and physical activity are undertaken. Theoretically derived and evidence-based instructional strategies are outlined, and specific coaching behaviors are suggested. Six instructional strategies to promote adaptive implicit beliefs in these contexts …


Intentional Learning With Technological Proxies: Goal Orientations And Efficacy Beliefs, Jose Hanham, Jacqueline Ullman, Joanne Orlando, John Mccormick Jan 2014

Intentional Learning With Technological Proxies: Goal Orientations And Efficacy Beliefs, Jose Hanham, Jacqueline Ullman, Joanne Orlando, John Mccormick

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Digital technologies serve as an important educational resource for tertiary students. A key feature of many current digital technologies available to students is that they can function as proxies in the learning process; that is, technology can be used to carry out some academic-related tasks on behalf of the user. For tertiary educators, the widespread availability of technological proxies raises a number of important pedagogical issues. In this article, we discuss technological proxy in the context of intentional learning. Drawing from the literature on learner motivation, we identify three key variables - learners' achievement goal orientations, self-efficacy beliefs, and proxy …


Cultural Beliefs About Cancer Influencing Help-Seeking And Symptom Appraisal: A Meta-Synthesis Of Qualitative Findings, Sharon Licqurish, Peggy Chiang, Jennifer Walker, Lyn Phillipson, Fiona Walter, Jon Emery Jan 2014

Cultural Beliefs About Cancer Influencing Help-Seeking And Symptom Appraisal: A Meta-Synthesis Of Qualitative Findings, Sharon Licqurish, Peggy Chiang, Jennifer Walker, Lyn Phillipson, Fiona Walter, Jon Emery

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Abstract presented at the 2014 World Cancer Congress, 3-6 December 2014, Melbourne, Australia