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Identifying Pre-High School Students' Science Class Motivation Profiles to Increase Their Science Identification and Persistence
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Chittum, Jessica R.; Jones, Brett D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
One purpose of this study was to determine whether patterns existed in pre-high school students' motivation-related perceptions of their science classes. Another purpose was to examine the extent to which these patterns were related to their science identification, gender, grade level, class effort, and intentions to persist in science. We…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Science Education, Student Attitudes, Rural Schools
Using Psychological Constructs from the Music Model of Motivation to Predict Students' Science Identification and Career Goals: Results from the U.S. and Iceland
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Jones, Brett D.; Sahbaz, Sumeyra; Schram, Asta B.; Chittum, Jessica R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
We investigated students' perceptions related to psychological constructs in their science classes and the influence of these perceptions on their science identification and science career goals. Participants included 575 middle school students from two countries (334 students in the U.S. and 241 students in Iceland). Students completed a…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes