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Professor FRYER, Luke

Professor FRYER, Luke

Associate Professor

Academic Unit of Human Communication, Learning, and Development


Qualification

Ph.D. (USYD)

Email

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Phone

(852) 3917 4774

Location

Room CPD 1.80, Centennial Campus

Research Expertise

  • Assessment, Testing and Measurement
  • Educational Psychology
  • Motivation
  • Research Methods and Methodologies
  • Technology-enhanced Learning

Prospective PhD/ EdD/ MPhil Applications

I am available to supervise PhD/EdD/MPhil students and would welcome enquiries for supervision.

  1. Educational Psychology (Motivation, Beliefs and Learning Strategies)
  2. Educational Technology (Persistence and AI)
  3. Higher Education (Quality Assurance, Engagement and Student Experience)
  4. Learning a new language at school (Individual differences and Learning a new language at school)
  5. Quantitative Methods (Micro-analytic, Experimental–natural settings–, Longitudinal Variable and Person-centered latent modelling)

20023: cited as a top 2% researcher across all fields internationally (Stanford University’s World Top 2% Scientists: https://top2percentscientists.com)

 

2022:  cited as a top producing early career scholar in educational psychology journals 2015-2021(#19; see Fong et al., 2022: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-022-09704-2)

 

2021: JSPS Fellowship for work on primary school literacy skills development

 

2019 (August 30): Patent awarded for a touch device interface for mobile devices (Patent number # 6585129)

CITATION: Fryer, L. K. & Fryer, K. (2019, Sept 19).情報処理装置、情報プログラ ムおよびこれを記録した記録媒体、ならびに情報 処理方法. Patent application # 2017–165970  Patent # 6585129 (Japan). [Dynamic touch based interface for survey self-report; Translation of Japanese patent title: information processor (information technology equipment), information program and a medium for the recording, and a method of information processing]

 

2019 (Jan-March) - Hughes Hall Research Fellowship, Cambridge University, UK. An award to support full-time research on my programme, work with UK collaborators and share my  work with Cambridge researchers.

 

2018 (April- May)- Visiting Researcher, Waseda University, Japan. An award to support my work on a national grant with three junior high school in Japan (Japanese National Government “Grant-In-Aid”)

 

2015 (January) - 2016 (September) -Thomas and Ethel Mary Ewing Postdoctoral Scholarship:Aresearch grant to enable full-time work on my program of research into interest, goals, study/learning strategies and online learning.

 

2015 (October)- Mobile Application Award of Excellence. Awarded by the Japanese National Mobile Application Development Challenge Contest for an App developed with two honours students (studying Computer Sciences) to collect micro-analytic data through Apple devices (iphones, ipads and iwatches).  

 

2015 (August)- SELF Network Commended Ph.D. Dissertation. Awarded a commendation for the quality of my dissertation, SELF Biennial Conference, Kiel Germany, August 2015.

 

1. Getting interested at school

AIMS: Make interest research of greater practical use to educators by modelling the interconnections between specific classroom experiences and the development of students' personal interest in educational domains of learning. 

 

Key Project Outputs:

1. Fryer, L. K., Ainley, M. & Thompson, A. (2016). Modeling the links between students’ interest in a domain, the tasks they experience and their interest in a course: Isn’t interest what university is all about? Learning and Individual differences. 50, 57-165 doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.08.011

2.  Fryer, L. K., Ainley, M., Thompson, A., Gibson, A., & Sherlock, Z. (2017). Stimulating and sustaining interest in a language course: An experimental comparison of Chatbot and Human task partners. Computers in Human Behavior, 75, 461-468. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.045

3. Fryer, L. K., *Shum, A., Leen, A. & Lau, P. (2021). Mapping students' interest in a new domain: Connecting prior knowledge, interest, and self-efficacy with interesting tasks and a lasting desire to reengage. Learning and Instruction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2021.101493

4. Fryer, L. K., *Bovee, H. N. & Nakao, K. (2022). Self-efficacy latent growth trajectories' longitudinal  links with achievement and interest: Both baseline and growth rate are important for interest outcomes. British Journal of Educational Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12473

5.Fryer, L. K., Zeng, L. M.,*Shum, A., Wong, C., & Ho, C. C. (2023). “Was that Interesting?” & “Does it Matter?”: The implications of on-task learning experiences. Studies in Educational Evaluation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2022.101230

6. Fryer, L. K., *Bovee, H. N., Witkins, N, & Mathews, P. (2023). Nudging students’ interest: A large-scale motivation-commercial experimental proof of concept. System.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2023.103162

 

 

Related supportive research outputs:

1.Fryer, L. K. & Ainley, M. (2019). Supporting interest in a study domain: A longitudinal test of the interplay between interest, utility-value, and competence beliefs. Learning and Instruction. 60, 252-262. doi: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2017.11.002

2. Fryer, L. K. , & Bovee, H. N. (2020) Teaching for course interest. Studies in Higher Education. doi:10.1080/03075079.2020.1712692

 

Ongoing Research outputs:

1. Fryer, L. K., Zeng, L., Shum, A., Wong, C. W., Ho, C.(2019). Democratising the course experience: Assessing and sharing “on-task” learning experiences. Poster presented at the WERA Focal Meeting 2019, Tokyo, Japan, August 5-8, 2019. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.34831.74402/1-- Currently under review for publication

2.Finding classroom tasks interesting: Prior Knowledge, Interest and implications for future interest. (2020). International Conference on Motivation (EARI SIG 8). Dresden, Germany.  --Currently under review for publication

 

2.Learning strategies development 

 

AIMS: Expand current conceptions of students' learning strategies through novel research design/analyses and  by integrating longstanding, overlapping models.

 

Key Project Outputs:

1. Fryer, L. K., Ginns, P. & Walker, R. A. (2016). Reciprocal modelling of students’ regulation strategies and motivational deficits for studying. Learning and Individual Differences. 51, 220-228. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.08.032

2. Fryer, L. K. (2017). Building bridges: Seeking structure and direction for motivated learning strategy models. Educational Psychology Review. 29, 325-344. doi: 10.1007/s10648-017-9405-7

3.  Fryer, L. K. (2017). (Latent) transitions to learning at university: A latent profile transition analysis of first-year Japanese students. Higher Education. 73, 519-537. doi: 10.1007/s10734-016-0094-9     

4 . Fryer, L. K. & Vermunt, J. D. (2018). Regulating approaches to learning: Testing learning strategy convergences across a year at university. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 88, 21-41. doi: 10.1111/bjep.12169

5.Fryer, L. K. &  Ginns, P. (2018). A reciprocal test of perceptions of teaching quality and approaches to learning: A longitudinal examination of teaching-learning connections. Educational Psychology. 8.1032-1049. doi: 10.1080/01443410.2017.1403568.

6. Dinsmore, D. & Fryer, L. K. (2019). Developing learners’ cognitive strategies and the  motivations to use them: Rethinking Education Policy. Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Science. doi: 10.1177/2372732219860862

7.Fryer, L. K., & Shum, A. (2020). Person-centered approaches to explaining students’ cognitive processing strategies. In D. L. Dinsmore, L. K. Fryer, & M. M. Parkinson (Eds.), Handbook of strategies and strategic processing: Conceptualization, measurement, and analysis. New York: Routledge.

8. Dinsmore, D. L., Fryer, L. K., & Parkinson, M. M. (2022). The learning styles hypothesis is false, but there are patterns of student characteristics that are useful. Theory Into Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2022.2107333 

9.Dinsmore, D. L., Fryer, L. K. & Dumas D. (2023). A theoretical and meta-theoretical reframing of the development of cognitive processing and learning. Educational Psychology Review. 35 (66).https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09789-3

 

Ongoing Research outputs:

1. Fryer, L. K. & Dinsmore D.(2017). Integrating Models of Domain Learning and Student Approaches to Learning perspective on processing: A theoretical framework for new measures and learning. A seminar presented to the Learning Strategies in Social and informal Learning Contexts research group. Bruges, Belgium. November, 22-24.

2. Fryer L. K. & Dinsmore, D. (2018). A hybrid strategic cognitive processing model: Developmental and environmental. A poster presented at EARIL SIG 4 Conference Topography of research on higher education: Promoting deep conversations, 29-31 August, 2018.

3. Dinsmore, D. L. & Fryer, L. K. (2020) Bridging Models of Motivation, Cognitive, and Metacognitive Processing. Paper to be presentation at SIG 8 Meets SIG 16 Dresden 2020, DGUV Congress, Dresden, Germany, Sept 3-8, 2020.

 

3. Learning with Bots

 

AIMS:  Explore the growing (endless) potential of AI (bots) as learning partners.

 

Key Project Outputs:

 1. Fryer, L. K., & Carpenter, R. (2006). Bots as language learning tools. Language Learning and Technology, 10, 8-14. Permanent Online Location: llt.msu.edu/vol10num3/emerging/

2.Fryer, L. K., Ainley, M., Thompson, A., Gibson, A., & Sherlock, Z. (2017). Stimulating and sustaining interest in a language course: An experimental comparison of Chatbot and Human task partners. Computers in Human Behavior, 75, 461-468. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.045

3. Fryer, L. K., Nakao, K. & Thompson, A. (2019). Chatbot learning partners: Connecting learning experiences, interest and competence. Computers in Human Behaviour. 93,279-289. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.023

4. Fryer, L. K., Thompson, A., Nakao, K., Howarth, M., & Gallacher, A. (2020). Supporting self-efficacy beliefs and interest as educational inputs and outcomes: Framing AI and Human partnered task experience. Learning and Individual Differences. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101850

4. Fryer, L. K., Coniam, D., Carpenter, R., and Lăpușneanu, D. (2020, June). Bots for language learning now. Language Learning and Technology. 24(3).

5. Huang, W., Hew, T. & Fryer, L. K. (2022). Chatbots for language learning—are they really useful? A systematic review of chatbot-supported language learning. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. http://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12610

 

4. Assessing  university student experiences

 

AIMS: Research towards the effective and culturally meaningful assessment of university student experiences

 

Key Project Outputs:

1.Fryer, L. K., Ginns, P., Walker, R. W., & Nakao, K. (2012). The adaptation and validation of the CEQ and the R-SPQ-2F to the Japanese tertiary environment. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 82, 549-563. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8279.2011.02045.x

3. Fryer, L. K. (2017). (Latent) transitions to learning at university: A latent profile transition analysis of first-year Japanese students. Higher Education. 73, 519-537. doi: 10.1007/s10734-016-0094-9     

2. Fryer, L. K. &  Ginns, P. (2018). A reciprocal test of perceptions of teaching quality and approaches to learning: A longitudinal examination of teaching-learning connections. Educational Psychology. 8.1032-1049. doi: 10.1080/01443410.2017.1403568.

3. Shum, A., Fryer, L. K., Vermunt, J., Donche, V., Petegam, P., Lee, D., Rienaldo, R., Ajiksmo, C., Summer W. & Cano, F. (2023).  Variable- and person-centred meta-re-analyses of university students' learning strategies from a cross-cultural perspective. Higher Education.10.1007/s10734-023-01062-4

4. Fryer, L. K., King, R. & Zeng. L. (2024)Student Engagement Across Pacific Asia: Steps toward a Shared Framework. Spring-Nature Education Series.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0558-0

 

Related supportive research outputs:

1. Fryer, L. K. & Gijbels, D. (2017). Student learning in higher education: Where we are and paths forward. Educational Psychology Review. 29, 199-203. doi: 10.1007/s10648-017-9415-5

2. Fryer, L. K. (2017). Building bridges: Seeking structure and direction for motivated learning strategy models. Educational Psychology Review. 29, 325-344. doi: 10.1007/s10648-017-9405-7

 

 Ongoing Research outputs:

1. Zeng, L., Fryer, L. K. & Zhao, M. (2020). A combined approach to assessing students’ university and programme experiences: A pilot study. HERDSA, Brisbane, Australia, June 30 - July 3.--Under review for publication

2. Zeng, L., Fryer, L. K. & Zhao, M. (2020). Assessing university student experience with an integrated and democratic approach for quality assurance and enhancement. HERDSA, Brisbane, Australia, June 30 - July 3. -- under review for publication 

 

Recent National Grant Support:

2019-2021 561,000 HKD.Diversity of University Engagement across Greater China. The grant covers materials and research assistants. From the Hong Kong General Research Fund (project #17615218).—Primary Investigator

BY YEAR:

 

2024

 

Fryer, L. K., *Guo, Z, *Li, C., *Liang, L., & *Zhong, Y. (in press). Self-efficacy in language classrooms: A systematic review and critical evaluation with directions for future research/practice. Studies in Second Language Teaching.

    PREREGISTERED: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/P76CA

 

*Li, C., Fryer, L. K., & Shum, A. (2024). The Playing Motivations of Male and Female Gamers and the Effects of Stereotypes on Their Motivations in Honor of Kings. Simulation & Gaming, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10468781241238299

    PREREGISTERED:https://archive.org/details/osf-registrations-xrybt-v1

 

*Liang, L. Oga-Baldwin, W. L., Nakao, K., *Shum. A. & Fryer, L. K. (2024). Transitioning from Paper to Touch interface: Phoneme-Grapheme Recognition Testing and Gamification in Primary school classrooms. Technology in Language Teaching & Learning. https://doi.org/10.29140/tltl.v6n2.1067

 

Ronnel, K. & Fryer, L. K. (2024). Hybridising our educational theories: Towards a more robust approach to educational research. Educational Psychology Review. (IF = 8.74) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09850-9

 

Nakao, K., Oga-Baldwin, W. L., &  Fryer, L. K. (2024). Developing phoneme-grapheme recognition in English as a foreign language: A longitudinal study at Japanese primary school. International Electronic Journal of Elementary School Education.https://doi.org/10.26822/iejee.2024.335

 

#Simon, P.D., Fryer, L. K. and Nakao K. (2024). Assessing class participation in physical and virtual spaces: Current approaches and issues. Frontiers in Education.https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1306568

    PRE-REGISTERED: https://osf.io/qcbrd/?view_only=5e931c0371874c19987cb94a7ca064a5

 

#Jiang, J. & Fryer, L. K. (2024). The effect of virtual reality learning on students' motivation to learn: A scoping review. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. https//:doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12885

 

 

2023

 

#Simon, P.D., Jiang, J., & Fryer, L.K. (2023), Measurement of higher education students’ and teachers’ experiences in learning management systems: A scoping review Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2266154.

    PRE-REGISTERED:https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/TBWP9

 

Fryer, L. K., *Bovee, H. N., Witkins, N, & Mathews, P. (2023). Nudging students’ interest: A large-scale motivation-commercial experimental proof of concept. System.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2023.103162

 

Shum, A. & Fryer, L. K. (2023).Grade goal effects on the interplay between motivation and performance in undergraduate gateway mathematics courses. Contemporary Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2023.102228 

 

Dinsmore, D. L., Fryer, L. K. & Dumas D. (2023). A theoretical and meta-theoretical reframing of the development of cognitive processing and learning. Educational Psychology Review. 35 (66).https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09789-3 

 

Dinsmore, D. L. & Fryer, L. K. (2023). Critical thinking and its relation to strategic processing. Educational Psychology Review.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09755-z 

 

Fryer, L. K. & Leenknecht, M. (2023). Toward an Organising Theoretical Model for Teacher Clarity, Feedback and Self‑Efficacy in the Classroom. Educational Psychology Review, 35 (3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09787-5

 

*Shum, A., Fryer, L. K., Vermunt, J., Donche, V., Petegam, P., Lee, D., Rienaldo, R., Ajiksmo, C., Summer W. & Cano, F. (2023).  Variable- and person-centred meta-re-analyses of university students' learning strategies from a cross-cultural perspective. Higher Education.10.1007/s10734-023-01062-4 

 

Shao, K., Dianzi, H., Kutuk, G., Fryer, L. K., Nicholson, L. J., & Guo, J. (2023). Factors Influencing Chinese Undergraduate Students’ Emotions in an Online EFL Learning Context During the COVID Pandemic. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12791

 

Fryer, L. K., Zeng, L. M.,*Shum, A., Wong, C., & Ho, C. C. (2023). “Was that Interesting?” & “Does it Matter?”: The implications of on-task learning experiences. Studies in Educational Evaluation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2022.101230 

 

 

2022

 

Fryer, L. K., Bovee, H. N. & Nakao, K. (2022). Self-efficacy latent growth trajectories' longitudinal  links with achievement and interest: Both baseline and growth rate are important for interest outcomes. British Journal of Educational Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.

*Huang, W., Hew T. & Fryer, L. K. (2022). Chatbots for language learning—are they really useful? A systematic review of chatbot-supported language learning. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. http://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12610

*Shum, A., Fryer, L. K., & Cano, F. (2022). Nature vs Nurture: Predicting learning strategy patterns and their outcomes. Higher Education Research and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2021.1985088

Zeng, L. M., Fryer, L. K., & Zhao, M. (2022). Integrating student learning and university engagement models: Toward a comprehensive assessment of the university student experience student learning experience for quality assurance in higher education. Higher Education Quarterly. http://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12363

 

2021

 

 Fryer, L. K., *Shum, A., Lee, A. & Lau, P. (2021). Mapping students' interest in a new domain: Connecting prior knowledge, interest, and self-efficacy with interesting tasks and a lasting desire to reengage. Learning and Instruction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2021.101493

 

Gegenfurtner, A., Narciss, S., Fryer, L. K., Järvelä, S., & Harackiewicz, J. M. (2021). Affective Learning in Digital Education. Frontiers in Psychology, 11(3972). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.630966.

 

Leenknecht, M. Loyens, S. &  Fryer, L. K. (2020). Formative assessment as practice: The Role of students’ motivation.Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2020.1765228

 

Oga-baldwin, W. & Fryer, L. K. (2021). Engagement growth in language learning classrooms A latent growth analysis of emotional, behavioral and cognitive engagement in Japanese elementary school classrooms. Tokyo: Multilingual Matters.

Fryer, L. K., Zeng, L, & Zhao, M. (2021). Assessing university & programme experiences: Towards an integrated Asia Pacific approach. Frontiers in Education

 

Fryer, L. K. , & Bovee, H. N. (2021) Teaching for course interest. Studies in Higher Education.doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1712692

 

2020

 

Fryer, L. K., Coniam, D., Carpenter, R., & Lăpușneanu, D. (2020). Bots for language learning now: Current and future directions. Language Learning & Technology, 24(2), 8–22. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10125/44719

 

Fryer, L. K., Thompson, A., Nakao, K., Howarth, M., & Gallacher, A. (2020). Supporting self-efficacy beliefs and interest as educational inputs and outcomes: Framing AI and Human partnered task experience. Learning and Individual Differences. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101850

 

Fryer, L. K. & Dinsmore, D. L. (2020). The Promise and Pitfalls of Self-report: Development, research design and analysis issues, and multiple methods. Frontline Learning Research. doi: https://doi.org/10.14786/flr.v8i3.623

 

Oga-baldwin, W. L. & Fryer, L. K. (2020). Girls show better quality motivation to learn languages than boys: Latent profiles and their gender differences. Heliyon. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04054

 

Fryer, L. K. & Nakao, K. (2020). The Future of Survey Self-report: An experimental test of  Likert, VAS, Slide, & “Swipe” touch interfaces. FrontLine Learning Research. doi: https://doi.org/10.14786/flr.v8i2.502 

 

Oga-Baldwin & Fryer, L. K. (2020). Profiles of language learning motivation: Are new and own languages different? Learning and Individual Differences.doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101852

 

 

2019

 

Shum, A. & Fryer, L. K. (2019). Impact Of A Short Teaching And Learning Communication Skills Training Course: Research Postgraduate Students' (RPgs) Transitions In Teaching And Learning. Asian Journal of Scholarship of Teaching9(2). 97-118.

 

Oga-Baldwin, W. L. Q., Fryer, L. K. & Larson-Hall, J. (2019). The critical role of the individual in language education: New directions from the learning sciences. System. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2019.102118

 

Fryer, L. K. (2019). Getting interested in learning a language at school: Developing a sustainable source of classroom engagement. System. doi: https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.system.2019.102120

 

Dinsmore, D. & Fryer, L. K. (2019). Developing learners’ cognitive strategies and the  motivations to use them: Rethinking Education Policy. Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Science. doi: 10.1177/2372732219860862

 

Fryer, L. K. & Oga-Baldwin, W. (2019). Succeeding at junior high school: Students’ reasons, their reach and the teaching that h(inders)elps their grasp. Contemporary Educational Psychology. 59  doi: /10.1016/j.cedpsych.2019.101778. 

 

Fryer, L. K., Nakao, K. & Thompson, A. (2019). Chatbot learning partners: Connecting learning experiences, interest and competence. Computers in Human Behaviour. 93,279-289. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.023

 

Fryer, L. K. & Ainley, M. (2019). Supporting interest in a study domain: A longitudinal test of the interplay between interest, utility-value, and competence beliefs. Learning and Instruction. 60, 252-262. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2017.11.002

 

2018

 

Fryer, L. K. &  Ginns, P. (2018). A reciprocal test of perceptions of teaching quality and approaches to learning: A longitudinal examination of teaching-learning connections. Educational Psychology. 8.1032-1049. doi:10.1080/01443410.2017.1403568.

 

Oga-Baldwin, W. L. Q. & Fryer, L. K. (2018). Schools can improve motivational quality: Profile transitions across early foreign language learning experiences. Motivation and Emotion. 42. 527-545. doi: 10.1007/s11031-018-9681-7

 

Fryer, L. K. & Bovee, H. N. (2018). Staying motivated to e-learn: Person- and variable-centred perspectives on the longitudinal risks and support. Computers and Education. 120, 227-240 doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2018.01.006

 

Fryer, L. K., Ginns, P., Howarth, M., Anderson, C. J., & Ozono, S. (2018). Modelling students’ individual differences in attendance: Why do students skip class? Educational Psychology. 38, 470-486. doi: 10.1080/01443410.2017.1403567

 

Dinsmore, D. & Fryer, L. K. (2018). The Intersection between depth and the regulation of strategy use. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 88, 1-8. doi: 10.1111/bjep.12209

 

Fryer, L. K. & Vermunt, J. D. (2018). Regulating approaches to learning: Testing learning strategy convergences across a year at university. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 88, 21-41. doi: 10.1111/bjep.12169

 

2017

 

Fryer, L. K. & Oga-baldwin, W. (2017). One more reason to learn a new language: Testing academic self-efficacy transfer during first year at junior high school. Frontline Learning Research. 5, 61-75. doi: 10.14786/flr.v5i4.301

 

Fryer, L. K., Ainley, M., Thompson, A., Gibson, A., & Sherlock, Z. (2017). Stimulating and sustaining interest in a language course: An experimental comparison of Chatbot and Human task partners. Computers in Human Behavior, 75, 461-468. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.045

 

Fryer, L. K. & Gijbels, D. (2017). Student learning in higher education: Where we are and paths forward. Educational Psychology Review. 29, 199-203. doi: 10.1007/s10648-017-9415-5

 

Fryer, L. K. (2017). (Latent) transitions to learning at university: A latent profile transition analysis of first-year Japanese students. Higher Education. 73, 519-537. doi: 10.1007/s10734-016-0094-9     

 

Fryer, L. K. (2017). Building bridges: Seeking structure and direction for motivated learning strategy models.Educational Psychology Review. 29, 325-344. doi: 10.1007/s10648-017-9405-7

 

2016

Fryer, L. K., Ginns, P. & Walker, R. A. (2016). Reciprocal modelling of students’ regulation strategies and motivational deficits for studying. Learning and Individual Differences. 51, 220-228. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.08.032

 

Fryer, L. K., Van den Broeck, A. Ginns, P. & Nakao, K. (2016). Understanding students’ instrumental goals, motivation deficits and achievement: Through the Lens of a latent profile analysis. Psychologica Belgica, 56, 226–243, doi: 10.5334/pb.265

 

Fryer, L. K., Ainley, M. & Thompson, A. (2016). Modeling the links between students’ interest in a domain, the tasks they experience and their interest in a course: Isn’t interest what university is all about? Learning and Individual differences. 50, 57-165 doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.08.011

 

 Fryer, L. K., & Bovee, H. N. (2016). Supporting students’ motivation for e-learning assignments: Teachers matter on and offline. Internet and Higher Education. 30, 21-29. doi: 10.1016/j.iheduc.2016.03.003

 

≤2015

 Fryer, L. K. (2015). Predicting self-concept, interest and achievement for first-year university students: The seeds of lifelong learning. Learning and Individual Differences, 38, 107-114. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2015.01.007

Ginns, P., Loughland A., Tierney, R. J., Fryer, L. K., Amazan R., & McCormick, A. (2015). Evaluation of the Learning to Teach for Social Justice–Beliefs Scale in an Australian context. Higher Education Research & Development, 34, 311-323. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2014.956701

 

Fryer, L. K., Ginns, P. & Walker, R. (2014). Between students' instrumental goals and how they learn: Goal content is the gap to mind. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 84, 612-30. doi: 10.1111/bjep.12052.

 

Fryer, L. K., Bovee, H. N., & Nakao, K. (2014). E-learning: Reasons language students don't want to. Computers & Education, 74, 26-36. doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2014.01.008

 

Fryer. L. K., Carter, P., Ozono, S., Nakao, K., & Anderson, C. J. (2013) Instrumental reasons for studying in compulsory English courses: I didn’t come to university to study English, so why should I? Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. 8, 239-256 doi: 10.1080/17501229.2013.835314

 

Fryer, L. K., Ginns, P., Walker, R. W., & Nakao, K. (2012). The adaptation and validation of the CEQ and the R-SPQ-2F to the Japanese tertiary environment. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 82, 549-563. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8279.2011.02045.x

 

Fryer, L. K., & Carpenter, R. (2006). Bots as language learning tools. Language Learning and Technology, 10, 8-14. Permanent Online Location: llt.msu.edu/vol10num3/emerging/

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BY TOPIC:

 

Motivations 2 Learn

 

Fryer, L. K., Thompson, A., Nakao, K., Howarth, M., & Gallacher, A. (2020). Supporting self-efficacy beliefs and interest as educational inputs and outcomes: Framing AI and Human partnered task experience. Learning and Individual Differences. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101850

Oga-Baldwin & Fryer, L. K. (2020). Profiles of language learning motivation: Are new and own languages different? Learning and Individual Differences.doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101852

 

Fryer, L. K. & Oga-Baldwin, W. (2019). Succeeding at junior high school: Students’ reasons, their reach and the teaching that h(inders)elps their grasp. Contemporary Educational Psychology. 59  doi: /10.1016/j.cedpsych.2019.101778. 

 

Fryer, L. K. & Ainley, M. (2019). Supporting interest in a study domain: A longitudinal test of the interplay between interest, utility-value, and competence beliefs. Learning and Instruction. 60, 252-262. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2017.11.002

 

Oga-Baldwin, W. L. Q. & Fryer, L. K. (2018). Schools can improve motivational quality: Profile transitions across early foreign language learning experiences. Motivation and Emotion. 42. 527-545. doi: 10.1007/s11031-018-9681-7

 

Fryer, L. K., Ginns, P., Howarth, M., Anderson, C. J., & Ozono, S. (2018). Modelling students’ individual differences in attendance: Why do students skip class? Educational Psychology. 38, 470-486. doi: 10.1080/01443410.2017.1403567

 

Fryer, L. K. & Oga-baldwin, W. (2017). One more reason to learn a new language: Testing academic self-efficacy transfer during first year at junior high school. Frontline Learning Research. 5, 61-75. doi: 10.14786/flr.v5i4.301

 

 Fryer, L. K., Van den Broeck, A. Ginns, P. & Nakao, K. (2016). Understanding students’ instrumental goals, motivation deficits and achievement: Through the Lens of a latent profile analysis. Psychologica Belgica, 56, 226–243, doi: 10.5334/pb.265

 

Fryer, L. K. (2015). Predicting self-concept, interest and achievement for first-year university students: The seeds of lifelong learning. Learning and Individual Differences, 38, 107-114. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2015.01.007

 

Getting Interested in Learning

 

Fryer, L. K., Thompson, A., Nakao, K., Howarth, M., & Gallacher, A. (2020). Supporting self-efficacy beliefs and interest as educational inputs and outcomes: Framing AI and Human partnered task experience. Learning and Individual Differences. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101850

 

Fryer, L. K. , & Bovee, H. N. (2020) Teaching for course interest. Studies in Higher Education.doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1712692

 

Fryer, L. K., Nakao, K. & Thompson, A. (2019). Chatbot learning partners: Connecting learning experiences, interest and competence. Computers in Human Behaviour. 93,279-289. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.023

 

Fryer, L. K. & Ainley, M. (2019). Supporting interest in a study domain: A longitudinal test of the interplay between interest, utility-value, and competence beliefs. Learning and Instruction. 60, 252-262. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2017.11.002

 

Fryer, L. K., Ainley, M., Thompson, A., Gibson, A., & Sherlock, Z. (2017). Stimulating and sustaining interest in a language course: An experimental comparison of Chatbot and Human task partners. Computers in Human Behavior, 75, 461-468. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.045

 

Fryer, L. K., Ainley, M. & Thompson, A. (2016). Modeling the links between students’ interest in a domain, the tasks they experience and their interest in a course: Isn’t interest what university is all about? Learning and Individual differences. 50, 57-165 doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.08.011

 

Fryer, L. K. (2015). Predicting self-concept, interest and achievement for first-year university students: The seeds of lifelong learning. Learning and Individual Differences, 38, 107-114. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2015.01.007

 

Learning Strategies

 

Shum, A. & Fryer, L. K. (2019). Impact Of A Short Teaching And Learning Communication Skills Training Course: Research Postgraduate Students' (RPgs) Transitions In Teaching And Learning. Asian Journal of Scholarship of Teaching9(2). 97-118.

 

Dinsmore, D. & Fryer, L. K. (2019). Developing learners’ cognitive strategies and the  motivations to use them: Rethinking Education Policy. Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Science. doi: 10.1177/2372732219860862

 

Fryer, L. K. &  Ginns, P. (2018). A reciprocal test of perceptions of teaching quality and approaches to learning: A longitudinal examination of teaching-learning connections. Educational Psychology. 8.1032-1049. doi:10.1080/01443410.2017.1403568.

 

Dinsmore, D. & Fryer, L. K. (2018). The Intersection between depth and the regulation of strategy use. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 88, 1-8. doi: 10.1111/bjep.12209

 

Fryer, L. K. & Vermunt, J. D. (2018). Regulating approaches to learning: Testing learning strategy convergences across a year at university. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 88, 21-41. doi: 10.1111/bjep.12169

 

Fryer, L. K. (2017). (Latent) transitions to learning at university: A latent profile transition analysis of first-year Japanese students. Higher Education. 73, 519-537. doi: 10.1007/s10734-016-0094-9     

 

Fryer, L. K., Ginns, P. & Walker, R. A. (2016). Reciprocal modelling of students’ regulation strategies and motivational deficits for studying. Learning and Individual Differences. 51, 220-228. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.08.032

 

Fryer, L. K., Van den Broeck, A. Ginns, P. & Nakao, K. (2016). Understanding students’ instrumental goals, motivation deficits and achievement: Through the Lens of a latent profile analysis. Psychologica Belgica, 56, 226–243, doi: 10.5334/pb.265

 

Fryer, L. K., Ginns, P., Walker, R. W., & Nakao, K. (2012). The adaptation and validation of the CEQ and the R-SPQ-2F to the Japanese tertiary environment. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 82, 549-563. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8279.2011.02045.x

 

Educational Technology

 

Fryer, L. K. & Bovee, H. N. (2018). Staying motivated to e-learn: Person- and variable-centred perspectives on the longitudinal risks and support. Computers and Education. 120, 227-240 doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2018.01.006

 

Fryer, L. K., & Bovee, H. N. (2016). Supporting students’ motivation for e-learning assignments: Teachers matter on and offline. Internet and Higher Education. 30, 21-29. doi: 10.1016/j.iheduc.2016.03.003

 

Fryer, L. K., Bovee, H. N., & Nakao, K. (2014). E-learning: Reasons language students don't want to. Computers & Education, 74, 26-36. doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2014.01.008

 

Fryer, L. K., & Carpenter, R. (2006). Bots as language learning tools. Language Learning and Technology, 10, 8-14. Permanent Online Location: llt.msu.edu/vol10num3/emerging/

 

Higher Education Teaching and Learning

 

Fryer, L. K. & Gijbels, D. (2017). Student learning in higher education: Where we are and paths forward. Educational Psychology Review. 29, 199-203. doi: 10.1007/s10648-017-9415-5

 

Fryer, L. K. (2017). (Latent) transitions to learning at university: A latent profile transition analysis of first-year Japanese students. Higher Education. 73, 519-537. doi: 10.1007/s10734-016-0094-9     

 

Fryer, L. K. (2017). Building bridges: Seeking structure and direction for motivated learning strategy models.Educational Psychology Review. 29, 325-344. doi: 10.1007/s10648-017-9405-7

 

ChatBots as Learning Partners

 

Fryer, L. K., Coniam, D., Carpenter, R., & Lăpușneanu, D. (2020). Bots for language learning now: Current and future directions. Language Learning & Technology, 24(2), 8–22. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10125/44719

 

Fryer, L. K., Thompson, A., Nakao, K., Howarth, M., & Gallacher, A. (2020). Supporting self-efficacy beliefs and interest as educational inputs and outcomes: Framing AI and Human partnered task experience. Learning and Individual Differences. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101850

 

Fryer, L. K., Nakao, K. & Thompson, A. (2019). Chatbot learning partners: Connecting learning experiences, interest and competence. Computers in Human Behaviour. 93,279-289. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.023

 

Fryer, L. K., Ainley, M., Thompson, A., Gibson, A., & Sherlock, Z. (2017). Stimulating and sustaining interest in a language course: An experimental comparison of Chatbot and Human task partners. Computers in Human Behavior, 75, 461-468. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.045

 

Fryer, L. K., & Carpenter, R. (2006). Bots as language learning tools. Language Learning and Technology, 10, 8-14. Permanent Online Location: llt.msu.edu/vol10num3/emerging/

 

Learning a New Language at School

 

Oga-Baldwin & Fryer, L. K. (2020). Profiles of language learning motivation: Are new and own languages different? Learning and Individual Differences.doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101852

 

Oga-Baldwin, W. L. Q., Fryer, L. K. & Larson-Hall, J. (2019). The critical role of the individual in language education: New directions from the learning sciences. System. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2019.102118

 

Fryer, L. K. & Oga-Baldwin, W. (2019). Succeeding at junior high school: Students’ reasons, their reach and the teaching that h(inders)elps their grasp. Contemporary Educational Psychology. 59  doi: /10.1016/j.cedpsych.2019.101778. 

 

Fryer, L. K. & Ainley, M. (2019). Supporting interest in a study domain: A longitudinal test of the interplay between interest, utility-value, and competence beliefs. Learning and Instruction. 60, 252-262. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2017.11.002

 

Oga-Baldwin, W. L. Q. & Fryer, L. K. (2018). Schools can improve motivational quality: Profile transitions across early foreign language learning experiences. Motivation and Emotion. 42. 527-545. doi: 10.1007/s11031-018-9681-7

 

Fryer. L. K., Carter, P., Ozono, S., Nakao, K., & Anderson, C. J. (2013) Instrumental reasons for studying in compulsory English courses: I didn’t come to university to study English, so why should I? Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. 8, 239-256 doi: 10.1080/17501229.2013.835314

 

Enhancing Self-report Methods

 

Fryer, L. K. & Nakao, K. (2020). The Future of Survey Self-report: An experimental test of  Likert, VAS, Slide, & “Swipe” touch interfaces. FrontLine Learning Research. doi: https://doi.org/10.14786/flr.v8i2.502 

 

Fryer, L. K. & Dinsmore, D. L. (2020). The Promise and Pitfalls of Self-report: Development, research design and analysis issues, and multiple methods. Frontline Learning Research. doi: https://doi.org/10.14786/flr.v8i3.623

 

The Power of Formative Assessment

Leenknecht, M. Loyens, S. &  Fryer, L. K. (2020). Formative assessment as practice: The Role of students’ motivation.Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2020.1765228

 

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BOOK CHAPTERS:

 

Oga-baldwin, W. & Fryer, L. K. (in press). Engagement growth in language learning classrooms A latent growth analysis of emotional, behavioral and cognitive engagement in Japanese elementary school classrooms. Tokyo: Multilingual Matters.

 

Dinsmore, D. L. Fryer, L. K., & Parkinson, M. M. (2020). Introduction: What are strategies? In D. L. Dinsmore, L. K. Fryer, & M. M. Parkinson (Eds.), Handbook of strategies and strategic processing: Conceptualization, measurement, and analysis. New York: Routledge.

 

Fryer, L. K.; Lee, S.; Shum, A. (2020). Student Learning, Development, Engagement, and Motivation in Higher Education. In Oxford Bibliographies in Education. Ed. Anne Hynds. New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756810-0246

 

Fryer, L. K., & Shum, A. (2020). Person-centered approaches to explaining students’ cognitive processing strategies. In D. L. Dinsmore, L. K. Fryer, & M. M. Parkinson (Eds.), Handbook of strategies and strategic processing: Conceptualization, measurement, and analysis. New York: Routledge.

 

Fryer, L. K., Larson-Hall, J., & Stewart, J. (2018). Experimental and longitudinal advances in language learning research. In A. Phakiti, P. D. Costa, L. Plonsky, & S. Starfield (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Applied Linguistics Research Methodology. New York: Palgrave.

 

Oga-baldwin, W. & Fryer, L. K. (2018). Growing Up in the Walled Garden: Motivation, Engagement, and the Japanese Educational Experience. In G. Liem & S. Tan. (Eds), Student Motivation, Engagement, and Growth: Asian Insights. New York: Routledge.