PUBLICATIONS

@article{Code2021bb,

title = {Academic success online: Mediating the effects of personality and self-efficacy in online learning},

author = {J Code and N Zap and R Ralph},

url = {https://www.learntechlib.org/p/212813},

doi = {https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0406651},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-05-01},

urldate = {2021-05-01},

journal = {International Journal on E-Learning},

volume = {20},

number = {4},

pages = {377-410},

abstract = {Academic success in any context is dependent upon a student's belief in their ability to succeed. While learning online, a students’ self-efficacy is affected by their confidence in their ability to interact within the online environment. With the proliferation of personalized learning and the growth of Massive Open Online Courses, this growing trend is a shift in focus from the centralized brick-and-mortar locus of control, to one of enabling student choice and agency for how, when, and where they learn. In the pre-pandemic setting, this research study examined the personality types of students enrolled in eight sections of four online courses in educational technology, and the role self-efficacy for learning online played in their academic performance. Key findings reveal that personality affects learners’ academic achievement is moderately significant, self-efficacy for online learning affects learners’ academic achievement in a small but significant way, and student conscientiousness and academic performance were significantly and fully mediated by self-efficacy for learning online while controlling for gender and English language proficiency. There were no mediation effects with the other personality traits. A discussion around learning design strategies is provided. The authors recommend that institutions adopt more flexible learning options for teaching and learning that include both online and blended learning options that provide student’s choice and agency over the learning experience but also enable the institution to be better equipped for what the uncertain future of education holds.},

keywords = {educational technology, learning design, mediation, online learning, personality, quantitative, self-efficacy, survey research},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{code2020agencyb,

title = {Agency for learning: Intention, motivation, self-efficacy and self-regulation},

author = {J Code},

doi = {10.3389/feduc.2020.00019},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-02-26},

booktitle = {Frontiers in Education},

journal = {Frontiers in Education},

volume = {5},

pages = {19},

organization = {Frontiers},

abstract = {Agency is inherent in students’ ability to regulate, control, and monitor their own learning. A learners’ effectiveness in regulating their cognitive, affective, and behavioural processes as they interact within the learning environment is critical to their academic success. This article advances a theory of learner agency, or agency for learning (AFL), as an emergent capacity that is intentional, self-generated, and reactive to social factors in the learning context. This article further traces the development of the Agency for Learning Questionnaire (AFLQ) and examines the internal consistency, predictive validity, and psychometric properties covering four dimensions of agentic functioning including intentionality (planfulness, decision competence), forethought (intrinsic and extrinsic motivation), self-regulation, and self-efficacy. The results of this research demonstrate that the AFLQ provides a reliable, valid, multidimensional measure of AFL based on existing theoretical and empirical findings, advancing both theory and practice. Understanding how agency develops and emerges within learning environments is a key factor in identifying why learning occurs enabling educational psychologists to potentially identify, measure, and study agentic processes in the context of learning across a variety of research designs.},

keywords = {AFLQ, forethought, intention, learner agency, learning design, motivation, quantitative, self-efficacy, self-regulation, survey research},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}