Browsing 2010 MU dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Advisor "Jonassen, David H., 1947-2012"
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Effects of self-explanation as causal mechanism elicitation methodology on causal reasoning task performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)People have always tried to find explanations for how and why things happen to and around them. While understanding causality is fundamental for both science and everyday life, researchers found that people have a multitude ... -
The relationship between learners' motivational schemas, learners' affect, and changes to learners' achievement goals : a test of the cognitive change of motivational beliefs model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)This dissertation study was conducted to examine an original model of motivational change in hopes of addressing a paucity of research regarding changes in academic motivation (Murphy & Alexander, 2000; Pintrich, 2003; J. ...