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Relations among Classroom Context, Student Motivation, and Mathematics Literacy: A Social Cognitive Perspective
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Kitsantas, Anastasia; Cleary, Timothy J.; Whitehead, Aubrey; Cheema, Jehanzeb – Metacognition and Learning, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to (a) determine relationships among teacher contextual variables including support and cognitive activation, student motivational beliefs, engagement, and mathematics literacy and (b) to examine whether different types of motivational and behavioral engagement variables act as viable mediators between the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Predicting High School Student Use of Learning Strategies: The Role of Preferred Learning Styles and Classroom Climate
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Cheema, Jehanzeb; Kitsantas, Anastasia – Educational Psychology, 2016
This study investigated the predictiveness of preferred learning styles (competitive and cooperative) and classroom climate (teacher support and disciplinary climate) on learning strategy use in mathematics. The student survey part of the Programme for International Student Assessment 2003 comprising of 4633 US observations was used in a weighted…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learning Strategies, Prediction, Preferences
The Role of the Conductor's Goal Orientation and Use of Shared Performance Cues on Collegiate Instrumentalists' Motivational Beliefs and Performance in Large Musical Ensembles
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Matthews, Wendy K.; Kitsantas, Anastasia – Psychology of Music, 2013
This study examined the effects of the conductor's goal orientation (mastery vs. performance) and use of shared performance cues (basic vs. interpretive vs. expressive) on instrumentalists' self-efficacy, collective efficacy, attributions, and performance. Eighty-one college instrumentalists from two musical ensembles participated in the study. It…
Descriptors: College Students, Music, Music Activities, Musical Instruments
Predicting Teacher Commitment Using Principal and Teacher Efficacy Variables: An HLM Approach
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Ware, Herbert W.; Kitsantas, Anastasia – Journal of Educational Research, 2011
The authors focused on public schools expected to meet performance goals before the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (2002) using data from the responses of 26,257 teachers and 6,711 principals to public school questionnaires from the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey. They examined relationships among measures of teacher commitment and…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Federal Legislation, Principals