The current study investigated how college students’ perception of cognitive demands, instrumentality and personality influent
their learning strategies generally used for a specific course. A survey package consisting of a Cognitive Demands Questionnaire (Zhou,
Phillips, & Turner, 2012), the Instrumentality Questionnaire (Husman & Lens, 1999), the Big-Five Personality Questionnaire (John,
Donahue & Kentle, 1991), and part of the Motivated Learning Strategies Questionnaire (31 items for measuring cognitive and
metacognitive learning strategies ,Pintrich, Smith, Garcia, & McKeachie, 1991) was administered to 494 participants near the end of
the semester when students have already completed most of the course content and assignments. The results revealed that 1) Compared to
personality traits and instrumentality, cognitive demands are stronger and more direct predictors for explaining students’ use of learning
strategies; 2) Most personality traits associated with impulse control only have indirect influence on learning strategies through the
coordination of self-regulation; 3) Self-regulation has a special role of coordinating cognitive demands, instrumentality and personality.
The present results shed light on the very important role played by the local context of the specific demand characteristics of the
assignments of a given course. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning System in partial
fulfillment of the Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester 2016. / July 5, 2016. / Cognitive demand, Instrumentality, Learning strategy, Personality / Includes bibliographical references. / Beth M. Phillips, Professor Directing Dissertation; Sherry Southerland, University
Representative; Jeannine Turner, Committee Member; Yanyun Yang, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_405613 |
| Contributors | Zhou, Feng (authoraut), Phillips, Beth M. (professor directing dissertation), Southerland, Sherry A., 1962- (university representative), Turner, Jeannine E. (Jeannine Ellen) (committee member), Yang, Yanyun (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Education (degree granting college), Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (142 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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