Influence of academic self-regulation, critical thinking, and age on online graduate students’ academic help-seeking
Abstract
Academic help-seeking is an invaluable learning strategy that has not yet received much attention in the distance education research literature. The asynchronous nature of distance education and many online courses presents an inherent roadblock to help-seeking. The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of academic self-regulation, critical thinking, and age on online graduate students’ help-seeking. Results indicate that these variables did significantly influence help-seeking, and that as self-regulation and critical thinking increased so did help-seeking. However, as age increased, help-seeking decreased. These results and implications for practice are discussed.
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Help-seeking strategies have been statistically linked to academic achievement as an intermediate variable between motivation and GPA.
“Help-seeking strategies have been statistically linked to academic achievement as an intermediate variable between motivation and GPA (Barnard et al., 2008; Dunn et al., 2014).”
From A Systematic Review of Studies Exploring Help-Seeking Strategies in Online Learning Environments (2023) · cites this paper as Dunn et al., 2014
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- Authors
- Dunn, K. E., Rakes, G. C., & Rakes, T. A.
- Venue
- Distance Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-01-02
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 75-89
- ISSN
- 0158-7919
- 1475-0198
- Cited by
- 51
- References
- 3
- Language
- en
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