Publications by authors named "Vera Munro-Smith"
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- Breakfast is crucial for students' academic performance, with a study involving 648 Australian high school students exploring the relationship between breakfast consumption, quality, and academic motivation.
- The research showed that consuming breakfast was linked to higher adaptive motivation, while the quality of the breakfast was associated with lower maladaptive motivation, both influencing students' achievements in a science test.
- Additionally, the quality of breakfast moderated its effects, as those who ate healthier options displayed greater adaptive motivation and improved academic performance, highlighting the importance of promoting better breakfast habits in educational settings.
To better understand instructional cognitive load, it is important to operationalize and assess it in novel ways that can reveal how different students perceive and experience this load as either challenging or threatening. The present study administered a recently developed instruction assessment tool-the Load Reduction Instruction Scale-Short (LRIS-S)-to = 2,071 students in 188 high school science classrooms. Multilevel latent profile analysis (LPA) was used to identify student and classroom profiles based on students' reports of instructional cognitive load (load reduction instruction, LRI; using the LRIS-S) and their accompanying psychological challenge orientations (self-efficacy and growth goals), and psychological threat orientations (anxiety and failure avoidance goals).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBoarding school is a major educational option for many students (e.g., students living in remote areas, or whose parents are working interstate or overseas, etc.
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