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Motivational Profiles across Domains and Academic Choices within Eccles et al.'s Situated Expectancy-Value Theoretical Framework
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Lazarides, Rebecca; Dicke, Anna-Lena; Rubach, Charlott; Oppermann, Elisa; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
This longitudinal person-centered study aimed to identify profiles of subjective task values and ability self-concepts of adolescents in the domain of mathematics, English, biology, and physics in Grades 10 and 12. We were interested in gendered changes of profile membership, and in relations between profile membership and educational and…
Descriptors: Profiles, Student Motivation, High School Students, Grade 10
Who Holds a Fixed Mindset and Whom Does It Harm in Mathematics?
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Hwang, NaYoung; Reyes, Marcela; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Youth & Society, 2019
Existing research on theories of intelligence shows that students with growth mindsets tend to outperform those with fixed mindsets in mathematics. We used nationally representative data to address two related questions in the general population: (a) Are there subgroup differences in the endorsement of a fixed mindset? (b) Does the negative…
Descriptors: World Views, Racial Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Minority Group Students
Profiles of Motivational Beliefs in Math: Exploring Their Development, Relations to Student-Perceived Classroom Characteristics, and Impact on Future Career Aspirations and Choices
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Lazarides, Rebecca; Dicke, Anna-Lena; Rubach, Charlott; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Four topics were investigated in this longitudinal person-centered study: (a) profiles of subjective task values and ability self-concepts of adolescents in the domain of mathematics, (b) the stability of and changes to the profiles of motivational beliefs from Grade 7 to 12, (c) the relation of changes to student-perceived classroom…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Beliefs, Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment
Students' Idiosyncratic Perceptions of Teaching Quality in Mathematics: A Result of Rater Tendency Alone or an Expression of Dyadic Effects between Students and Teachers?
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Göllner, Richard; Wagner, Wolfgang; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Trautwein, Ulrich – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Student ratings of teaching quality have been shown to be powerful predictors of important academic outcome variables. This is the case despite the fact that students from the same classroom can perceive teaching quality quite differently in their own idiosyncratic ways. These differences among students in the same classroom are typically…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship
Trajectories of Change in Students' Self-Concepts of Ability and Values in Math and College Major Choice
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Musu-Gillette, Lauren E.; Wigfield, Allan; Harring, Jeffrey R.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
This study extends previous research on the long-term connections between motivation constructs in expectancy-value theory and achievement outcomes. Using growth mixture modelling, we examined trajectories of change for 421 students from 4th grade through college in their self-concept of ability (SCA) in math, interest in math, and perceived…
Descriptors: Self Concept, College Students, Academic Ability, Mathematics Skills
Math and Science Motivation: A Longitudinal Examination of the Links between Choices and Beliefs
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Simpkins, Sandra D.; Davis-Kean, Pamela E.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
This study addresses the longitudinal associations between youths' out-of-school activities, expectancies-values, and high school course enrollment in the domains of math and science. Data were collected on 227 youth who reported on their activity participation in 5th grade, expectancies-values in 6th and 10th grade, and courses taken throughout…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Grade 10, Grade 5, Academic Achievement