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The ubiquity of formal education in modern nations is often accompanied by an assumption that students’ motivation for learning is innate and self-sustaining. The latter is true for most children in domains (e.g., language) that are universal and have a deep evolutionary history, but this does not extend to learning in evolutionarily novel domains...
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This study focuses on what choices in assessments students want to make in order to enhance their motivation. A flexible assessment can enhance students’ perceived autonomy and thereby contribute to more intrinsic motivation for working on these assessment tasks. Autonomy is more than offering choices, rather it is about the autonomy t...
The present study uses doubly latent models to estimate the effect of average mathematics achievement at the class level on students’ subsequent mathematics achievement (the “Peer Spillover Effect”) and mathematics self-concept (the “Big-Fish-Little-Pond-Effect; BFLPE”), controlling for individual differences in prior mathematics achievement. Our d...
Previous research is unclear regarding whether utility value writing would be more advantageous than summary writing. We conducted two randomized experiments (n = 107 for Experiment 1 and n = 116 for Experiment 2) on Chinese university students. We compared utility value writing to summary writing and a control condition (video restudy in Experimen...
Research on grit indicates that perseverance positively predicts academic achievement. Yet, the mechanisms through which perseverance might lead to academic success remain less explored, particularly in cross-cultural research. The current study investigated such mechanisms by examining possible mediating effects of students’ use of self-regulated...
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Past research shows the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect (BFLPE; negative effect of school-average achievement on student-level academic self-concept) to generalize across countries. However, such evidence is largely limited to math and science. Given that reading self-concept is highly differentiated from math and science self-concepts and play...
Learning analytics (LA) has the potential to generate new insights into the complexities of learning behaviours in language massive open online courses (LMOOCs). In LA, the collective attention model takes an ecological system view of the dynamic process of unequal participation patterns in online and flexible learning environments. In this study,...
Academic self-efficacy, self-esteem, and grit (i.e., perseverance of effort and consistency of interests) have all separately shown to predict academic success within traditional education. In higher online education, information on these relationships is lacking, while this group of learners is growing in size and importance. We therefore investig...
Several studies show that teaching quality is an important predictor of students’ academic achievement. However, less is known about factors that are important for teaching quality. In the present study, it was hypothesized that school population composition [i.e., students’ socioeconomic status (SES) and migration background], workload, and teache...
A pedigree genetic analysis of a female Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) inherited from paternal chimerism was conducted to explore the genetic diagnosis strategy. No large deletions/duplications was found in the DMD gene of the proband. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) results showed that the proband had a heterozygous mutation in the DMD gene c....
The big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE), the negative effect of school-/class-average achievement on academic self-concept, is one of educational psychology’s most universal findings. However, critiques of this research have proposed moderators based on achievement motivation theories. Nevertheless, because these motivational theories are not suffi...
The purpose of this study was 1) to validate the measures for achievement emotion as well as the measures for perceived cognitive load and 2) to explore the relationships between achievement emotions, perceived cognitive load and personal goal achievement in MOOCs. Participants were 1361 students who completed a survey at the end of the MOOCs. Rasc...
Videos are being used increasingly to deliver subject knowledge in online learning, but their use has long been criticsed for a lack of learner-to-learner interaction, which can result in high dropout rates. This highlights the need to reconsider instructional approaches and the design of online enviornments. Productive failure is an instructional...
Cognitive load theory has been a major influence for the field of educational psychology. One of the main guidelines of the theory is that extraneous cognitive load should be reduced to leave sufficient cognitive resources for the actual learning to take place. In recent years, research regarding various design factors, in particular from the field...
Social presence is an important construct in online group learning. It influences the way how social interaction unfolds online and affects learning and social outcomes. However, what precisely social presence is has been under debate, as presently a plethora of different definitions and measures exist preventing the development of a coherent resea...
While executive functions (EFs) and self-regulated learning (SRL) strategy use have been found to be related in several populations, this relationship has not been studied in adult online distance education (ODE). This is surprising as self-regulation, and thus using such strategies, is very important here. In this setting, we studied the relation...
The present study is based on a theoretical framework of cognitive load that distinguishes causal factors (learner characteristics affecting cognitive load e.g., self-concept; interest; perceived stress) and assessment factors (indicators of cognitive load e.g., mental load; mental effort; task performance) of cognitive load. Various assessment app...
With modern technological advances, distance education has become an increasingly important education delivery medium for, for example, the higher education provided by open universities. Among predictive factors of successful learning in distance education, the effects of non-cognitive skills are less explored. Grit, the dispositional tendency to...
Past research shows the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect (BFLPE; negative effect of school-average achievement on student-level self-concept) to generalize across countries. However, evidence is largely limited to math and science, limiting conclusions of universality to these subjects. Using data from Program for International Students Assessment 2018...
The cultivation of interest is an important aim of education. When encountering new information, the learners’ situational interest is an essential step in the interest development process. Situational interest represents the learner’s heightened attentional focus toward task characteristics (triggered interest) and elevated positive feelings and v...
Many large-scale, school-based interventions have attempted to improve academic performance through promoting students’ growth mindset, defined as the belief that one’s intellectual ability can increase with practice and time. However, most have shown weak to no effects. Thus, it is important to examine how growth mindset might affect retention and...
Research on grit indicates that perseverance positively predicts academic achievement. Yet, the mechanisms through which perseverance might lead to academic success remain less explored, particularly in cross-cultural research. The current study investigated such mechanisms by examining the possible mediating effects of self-regulated learning stra...
We meta-analysed the correlation between perseverance of effort (PE) and consistency of interest (CI) based on 39 studies from two previous meta-analyses and showed PE and CI were only moderately correlated (r = 0.43).PE and CI had differentiated correlation patterns with various psychological variables. These findings indicate that PE and CI are t...
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目的： 分析不明原因智力障碍或发育迟缓患儿已知基因的新生点变异。 方法： 收集首都儿科研究所附属儿童医院神经内科门诊2015年9月至2017年4月就诊的120例智力障碍或发育迟缓患儿，采用目标基因捕获测序技术进行遗传病因诊断，根据美国医学遗传学与基因组学学会对基因变异解读的指南，利用多种生物信息学软件分析测序数据，结合患儿的表型，对明确或疑似致病性基因变异采用Sanger测序方法进行验证及父母传递分析，同时对新生点变异患儿的致病基因的生理功能及分子信号通路进行比较。 结果： 120例患儿中发现23例携带明确致病性新生点变异，新生点变异发生率为19.2%，23例患儿中男12例、女11例，年龄2个月～6岁6个月。早发性癫痫脑病5例，精神发育迟滞5、6、8、19、20、22、39型各1例，Weil...
Objective: To analyze the clinical phenotype and genetic characteristics of short-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency (SCADD). Methods and Results: The proband was one month and 14 days old girl, who presented mental and motor retardation, hypotonia and epileptic seizures (convulsive seizures and generalized tonic seizures). Physical exa...
Although it is assumed that epigenetic mechanisms, such as changes in DNA methylation (DNAm), underlie the relationship between adverse intrauterine conditions and adult metabolic health, evidence from human studies remains scarce. Therefore, we evaluated whether DNAm in whole blood mediated the association between prenatal famine exposure and meta...
Although it is assumed that epigenetic mechanisms, such as changes in DNA methylation (DNAm), underlie the relationship between adverse intrauterine conditions and adult metabolic health, evidence from human studies remains scarce. Therefore, we evaluated whether DNAm in whole blood mediated the association between prenatal famine exposure and meta...
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To analyze the clinical and genetic features of 15 cases with intellectual disability or developmental delay (ID/DD) complicated with congenital nystagmus.Method:The clinical characteristics and the results of laboratory tests, images and genetics of 15 patients with ID/DD complicated with congenital nystagmus, confirmed by gene diagnosi...
Nonketotic hyperglycinemia (NKH) is a rare, inborn error of metabolism. In this case report, a Chinese male infant was diagnosed with NKH caused by GLDC gene mutation. The clinical characteristics and genetic diagnosis were reported. The infant presented with an onset of early metabolic encephalopathy and Ohtahara syndrome. Both blood and urinary l...
Objective: To evaluate the application of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-microarray and target gene sequencing technology in the clinical molecular genetic diagnosis of unexplained intellectual disability(ID) or developmental delay (DD). Method: Patients with ID or DD were recruited in the Department of Neurology, Affiliated Children's Hospit...
Objective: To identify the relationship between the CACNA1H gene and childhood absence epilepsy (CAE). Methods: Exons 6 to 12 of CACNA1H gene were sequenced in 100 CAE trios of Han population in China. Variants in these regions were then analyzed. Results: Fourteen variants were identified only in 32 CAE patients that were not present in 191 normal...
Objectives: Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is an idiopathic generalized nonconvulsive epilepsy with a complex genetic mode. CAE gene has not been determined. The underlying mechanisms of CAE are considered to be involving thalamocorticalcircuitry. We used association analysis and functional candidate gene strategy to study CAE gene.
Methods: CAE...
