TY - JOUR T1 - Predicting Motivational Beliefs and Cognitive Engagement of Traditional and Distance Education Students Based on Social Structure of Education and Environmental Perceptions AU - Akbarpoor Zangalani, Mohammad Bagher AU - Zare, Hossein AU - Ekrami, Mahmoud AU - Maleki, Hamid JO - The Social Sciences VL - 11 IS - 3 SP - 387 EP - 398 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2016.387.398 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.387.398 KW - Academic achievement KW -motivational beliefs KW -cognitive engagement KW -social structure of education KW -environmental perception AB - The main purpose of this study is predicting motivational beliefs (academic self-concept and task value) and cognitive engagement of traditional and distance education students based on social structure of education and perception of educational environments. Investigating the current differences in the field of study variables among these two groups of students also was one of this research’s implicit goals. Study sample was 700 students (350 distance education students and 350 traditional students) that were chosen through multi-stage cluster sampling and answered a questionnaire including sub-scales of the task value and cognitive engagement questionnaire MSLQ of Pintrich, Smith, Garcia and Mc Catchy, Ronald’s academic self-concept scale, Blackburn’s class structure perception scale and researcher made questionnaire in the field of social structure of education and educational expectations. Pearson correlation coefficient, independent t-test and multiple regressions were used for analyzing data. ER -