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Download full textFyans, Leslie J., Jr.; Maehr, Martin L. – 1990
Recent research on motivation and education has focused on the psychological environment of the classroom. Special consideration has been given to perceived stresses on goals, purposes, and meanings of learning activities and the relationships of these to motivation and achievement. The study summarized in this paper builds on this work,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Fyans, Leslie J., Jr.; Maehr, Martin L. – 1987
The recent concern with industrial achievement has reinforced a growing tendency to be concerned with educational achievement. This study, the first in a series, examined whether or not student motivation made a unique contribution to achievement that could be separated from other factors known or thought to contribute to student achievement such…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Aspiration, Educational Environment
Fyans, Leslie J., Jr.; Maehr, Martin L. – 1990
Recent research has indicated that a learning setting's "psychological environment" can make a difference in student achievement and motivation. This has been found to be true in the case of smaller learning settings, such as the classroom. Recently, research on school culture has suggested that schools do indeed differ in the kind of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Cultural Background, Educational Environment
