Owen, Robin and Blanchfield, Anthony and Gottwald, Victoria (2022) Predicting undergraduate students’ learning from a lecture: The role of self-control, motivation, and mental effort. Wales Journal of Education, 24 (1). ISSN 2059-3716
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Abstract
For the first time, the present study investigated the combined role of selfcontrol, motivation, and mental effort in predicting undergraduate students’ learning from a two-hour presentation-format higher education lecture. The study comprised 62 students, in a final-year BSc undergraduate Sports Coaching lecture, who completed questionnaires measuring: state self-control during the lecture; mastery approach and performance avoidance motivation towards learning the course topic; mental effort invested during the lecture; and content retention immediately after the lecture (i.e., learning). Moderated mediation analyses revealed that greater levels of state self-control (W variable) were necessary for students to transform their motivation (X variable; mastery approach or performance avoidance) into mental effort (M variable) to benefit their learning (Y variable) during the lecture. Avenues for applied interventions to motivate students and increase their self-control resources within higher education environments are discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | © 2022 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Health and Sport Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Robin Owen |
| Date Deposited: | 24 May 2023 10:41 |
| Last Modified: | 24 May 2023 10:41 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3937 |
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