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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
1

Choice between contingent and non-contingent reinforcement, and the concept of "free loading" in play and work situations /

Manglaras, Nicholas. January 1978 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (B.A. (Hons.)) -- University of Adelaide, Department of Psychology, 1978.
2

Choice as a motivational determinant in sensory contingent bar pressing /

Clark, Janice Evelyn. January 1974 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (B.Sc.Hons.) -- University of Adelaide, Department of Psychology, 1975.
3

Further investigation of the relationship between persistence, expectation of success and the incentive value of a task /

McDonagh, Kathleen Margaret. January 1973 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (B.Sc.Hons.) -- University of Adelaide, Department of Psychology, 1974.
4

Need for achievement in Negro and white children

Merbaum, Ann Dissinger, January 1961 (has links)
Thesis--University of North Carolina. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.
5

Perceived competence and autonomy as moderators of the effects of achievement goal orientations

Cho, YoonJung, January 1900 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
6

Effects of praises on achievement motivation /

Yim, Pui-shan, Amy. January 2002 (has links)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-102).
7

Effect of emotion on achievement goal performance /

Bott, Elizabeth M. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-40). Also available via the World Wide Web.
8

Adapting feedback to learner personality to increase motivation

Dennis, Matthew Gordon January 2014 (has links)
Motivation is important for learners. As the provision of education moves increasingly towards online delivery, keeping motivation high is a key challenge. The lack of personalized approaches traditionally delivered by human tutors increases drop out rates. This thesis investigates how a conversational agent, taking the role of a virtual tutor, could deliver personalised feedback on performance to learners. It also investigates the most effective emotional support to incorporate in this feedback in order to maintain learner motivation. How learners respond to feedback depends on many factors. We focus on learner personality as our adaptation criterion, in particular Generalized Self Efficacy (GSE) and the Five Factor model (FFM). First, based on the literature, the thesis establishes how the core concepts of motivation, affective state, feedback and personality relate to one another, and discusses other research into learner motivation and feedback. Our main methodology is the User-as-Wizard method where we model how people adapt to personality in the real world when giving feedback to learners. An algorithm is then developed to encapsulate these adaptations, and is then evaluated. To achieve this, we required a way to express different learner personalities in a controlled way. Personality can be described by many models, but one of the most popular and reliably validated is the Five-Factor Model. In this model, the personality of an individual is described by a score for each of the five dimensions or 'traits'. There are numerous self-report questionnaires for these traits, indicated by a measure of agreement with certain adjectives on a scale. To express the traits at polarized levels, we produced and validated ten stories, two for each of the traits, expressing only that trait at high and low level. These stories were based on the adjectives used in the IPIP-NEO questionnaire. We also created two polarized stories for Generalized Self Efficacy. Subsequently, we investigated how people use different slants (or bias) in performance feedback, depending on learner personality. We designed two experiments, in which participants took the role of a teacher. Participants were shown the learner's personality (through the personality story) and a set of test scores on a range of topics. We provided different ways of describing the learner's performance which could result in positive, neutral or negative slants (e.g. “you are slightly below my expectations” on a score of 10% is positive, and “you are substantially below my expectations” is neutral). The type of slant was established by a focus group of experts prior to the experiments. We found some evidence that slanting was used for very low test scores for students with low GSE, and positive slanting for conscientious students who had only just failed a test. Next, we investigated supplementing slant with emotional support. A set of emotional support statements was generated and categorized. A series of five experiments was run where participants gave feedback to students with differing personality traits (using the FFM stories) and test scores. Participants could provide the same performance feedback (with associated slant) from the previous experiments, and could choose to supplement this with the validated emotional support statements. The type of emotional support given did indeed vary between different personalities (e.g. neurotic individuals with poor grades received more emotional reflection), and an algorithm was created to describe these adaptations. Finally, we ran a qualitative study with teachers and students to investigate the algorithm's effectiveness. During the course of the thesis we also developed a methodology for generating, validating and investigating the use of Emotional Support for other domains. This has already been applied in research to persuade older adults to participate in social interactions and to support Community First Responders and carers when experiencing various stressors.
9

The effect of the force of love in influencing a positive organizational climate as perceived by project managers of Fortune 500 companies

Smith, William D. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oxford Graduate School, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [118]-178).
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The effect of uncontrollable reward on performance and the role ofindividual difference variables (sex and level of achievement motivation) in mediating responses to uncontrollable outcomes.

Buys, Nicholas John. January 1979 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (B.A. Hons. 1980) from the Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide.

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