Loredana Mihalca

• PhD
• Researcher at Babeș-Bolyai University

Scholars have argued that individual characteristics promoting self‐regulation such as self‐efficacy and self‐goal setting were crucial for employees to cope effectively with the challenges of teleworking during the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Yet, research simultaneously exploring these specific self‐regulatory abilities in relation to...

Purpose Drawing upon the job demands-resources model, the purpose of this study is to investigate the differential relevance of contextual antecedents for job crafting dimensions (i.e. increasing structural and social job resources) and consequently for various aspects of work performance (in-role and extra-role performance). Despite considerable r...

The purpose of this study is to investigate which job and organisational attributes incoming first-year students prefer in a job, and whether their preferences differ from those of newly-hired employees. Factor analysis of the job attributes reveal four underlying factors: job itself, firm attributes, compensation and rewards, and supportive work e...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether employee job satisfaction is associated with the congruence between desired and perceived job attributes. The desired and perceived levels of 30 job attributes were measured on employees from a large Information Technology (IT) company based in Romania. Results indicate that employees who ex...

Research background: The global COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented challenge not only for employees? well-being, but also for the nature of their work, as teleworking became the norm for many of them almost overnight. Thus, there is a need to a more fine-grained understanding of the specific job demands experienced while teleworking during...

Both accurate monitoring and adequate control are crucial for effective self-regulation when learning from problem-solving tasks. Prior research has shown that self-regulated learning is especially harmful for low prior knowledge students, given their difficulties with accurate monitoring and control decisions. Although many studies have indicated...

A possible explanation for why students do not benefit from learner-controlled instruction is that they are not able to accurately monitor their own performance. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether and how the accuracy of metacognitive judgments made during training moderates the effect of learner control on performance when solvin...

In the context of fast technological development and the widespread use of learning technologies in education, the need for students to regulate their own learning processes has become increasingly important (Bannert & Reimann, 2012; Winters, Greene, & Costich, 2008). Research in the last decade has revealed that students have to possess specific s...

Inaccurate judgments of task difficulty and invested mental effort may negatively affect how accurate students monitor their own performance. When students are not able to accurately monitor their own performance, they cannot control their learning effectively (e.g., allocate adequate mental effort and study time). Although students' judgments of t...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a central construct in education, especially in the context of the widespread use of instructional technologies. According to metacognition models (e.g., Nelson & Narens, 1994), the accuracy of monitoring plays a crucial role for effective regulation of one's cognition, behavior, and motivation as s/he strives to ac...

Research addressing the issue of instructional control in computer-assisted instruction has revealed mixed results. Prior knowledge level seems to play a mediating role in the student’s ability to effectively use given instructional control. This study examined the effects of three types of instructional control (non-adaptive program control, learn...

Using a multi-methods and multi-informants integration of the assessment outcomes in a single format may better assess school readiness. We claim that this integration can be implemented in a computerized platform, which can offer an intelligent management of the assessment, thus, providing much more information from the same data. We set up the ma...

Educational technology research has moved through several stages or "ages", focusing at the beginning on the content to be learned, then on the format of instructional messages and, finally on the interaction between computers and students. The present paper reviews the research in technology-based learning environments in order to give both a hist...

Major efforts have been made in the last few years in Romania to incorporate ICT in the educational system. The project begun at the Department of Psychology from "The Babes-Bolyai" University and it includes two-multimedia educational software called "The Numbers" and "Shipwrecked on the Calculations Island" follows the same trend. . The purpose o...