master's level computer science online course. Moreover, the study also revealed that teaching presence – operationalized through the changes in instructional design- moderated the association between social presence and academic performance, indicating that a course design that increased the level

A model is proposed that specifies the conditions under which individuals will become internally motivated to perform effectively on their jobs. The model focuses on the interaction among three classes of variables: (a) the psychological states of employees that must be present for internally

desire loses some of its appeal. Direct reports of subjective well-being may have a useful role in the measurement of consumer preferences and social welfare, if they can be done in a credible way. Indeed, economists have already made much use of subjective well-being data. From 2001 to 2005, more than

motivation toward stimulation (/? = -.07), and intrinsic motivation toward accomplishment {0 = -.06). These four predictors accounted for 38% of the variance in dropout intentions. perceptions of competence and autonomy. 6 The results of the Perceived School Competence Scale revealed the presence of a type

A model linking children’s peer acceptance in the classroom to academic performance via academic self-concept and internalizing symptoms was tested in a longitudinal study. A sample of 248 children was followed from 4th to 6th grade, with data collected from different informants in each year

This study is based on the proposition that successful design of online discussion support systems (ODSS) to facilitate the education process is contingent upon several factors. These include amongst others factors related to ability to support common goal achievement, effective teamwork

. Quantitative content analysis and social network analysis were used with online discussion transcripts to identify qualities of the discourse in student led activities. The analysis focused on the three original presences of the model (social, teaching, and cognitive presences) and learning presence, a recent

to be the best predictor of academic performance. The results are discussed in relation to social capital theory and future research of viable predictors of academic performance among adolescents.

Authors Note: We would like to thank Carolyn Scholten for mentoring and for her contributions to the research process and Nari Kim and Sunnie Lee for their work analyzing the social presence of the student messages. This research experimentally manipulated the social presence cues in instructor’s

with an online assessment. Finally, to look at the relationship between students ’ cognitive information processing style and coursework performance. The findings revealed that student coursework performance was positively related to their engagement with the online assessments. Furthermore, student online