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Altruistic Individualists: Motivations for International Volunteering Among Young Adults in Switzerland

Rehberg, Walter

In: Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2005, vol. 16, no. 2, p. 109-122

Haute Ecole pédagogique Fribourg

Predicting Homework Effort : Support for a Domain-Specific, Multilevel Homework Model

Trautwein, Ulrich ; Lüdtke, Oliver ; Inge Schnyder ; Niggli, Alois

In: Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006, vol. 98, no. 2, p. 448 – 456

To date, homework research has been only loosely tied to theories of educational psychology and has relied mainly on time-on-task measures. The two studies (414 and 1,501 eighth graders) presented in this paper provide support for a domain-specific, multilevel model that includes an expanded effort measure, motivational predictors (expectancy and value components), learning environment variables,...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Confidence in technology use : the development and validation of a technological, pedagogical, and content self-efficacy scale for teachers

Fanni, Francesca ; Cantoni, Lorenzo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM007.

This thesis is positioned at the intersection of education, technology, and motivation research fields, specifically in the context of K-12 teaching. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between teachers’ self- efficacy and their technology use, and design and validate a self-efficacy measure to assess teachers’ beliefs about technology use in their profession. This...