Instructors may help students develop more sophisticated epistemic beliefs by giving students opportunities to, for example: persist in learning difficult concepts (with appropriate support from the instructor or peers), reflect on how their own ideas changed during learning, and spend more time learning important concepts in order to reach deeper levels of understanding.
Large gaps in learning outcomes persist, based on both sex and household wealth.
We focus on adaptation differences in learning to see whether such differences persist beyond primary school education and in what form.
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It has looked at how people now understand, and how they are acting on, the problems all children face in accessing and persisting and successfully learning in school, with particular reference to how these impediments and actions are affecting girls.
While robotics competition experiences may motivate students to learn more programming, gender gaps in programming involvement persist in these learning environments and appear to widen as students grow older and enter more advanced competitions.
By motivation, we refer to students' desire and willingness to deploy effort toward and persist in the learning task (Schunk, Pintrich, & Meece, 2008).
The flipped course encourages students to become more engaged with course material, persist in their learning through more timely and accurate preparation, and, ultimately, perform better.
Persisting learning deficits in rats after exposure to pfiesteria piscicida.
In addition to these factors, students' beliefs about their ability to learn a subject may affect their willingness to persist in trying to learn difficult concepts (Bandura and Locke, 2003; Britner, 2008; for a recent discussion, see Trujillo and Tanner, 2014) and limit the extent to which they undergo conceptual change (Linnenbrink-Garcia et al., 2012).
