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An De Meester; Julie Galle; Bart Soenens; Leen Haerens – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2024
Background: It is widely recommended for teachers to provide positive feedback to foster the development and maintenance of children's motivation and perseverance. However, not all positive feedback has positive consequences and an important differentiation can be made between positive person-oriented feedback (i.e. 'you are very talented') and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 6, Physical Education
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Johanna Schoenherr – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Real-world problems are important in math instruction, but they do not necessarily trigger students' task motivation. Personalizing real-world problems by (1) matching problems to students' shared living environment (context personalization) and (2) asking students to pose their own problems (active personalization) might be two…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Personality Traits, Student Motivation, Mathematics Instruction
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Moonhyun Han; Phil Seok Oh – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
Using a qualitative case study method, we examined how students talked, acted, and felt in structured inquiry in attempt to understand how students' epistemic emotions interact with their engagement in practices. Participants were four 5th graders, and data included audio recordings of the students' talk in structured inquiry for learning a…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Psychological Patterns, Science Education, Educational Practices
Gerrit DeYoung – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers are subject to multiple stressors in their profession and often experience significant distress, which has been found to be linked with harsh and punitive behaviors. These behaviors have been found to influence students negatively, particularly those with vulnerable temperaments. Prior research has also found such negative teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
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Lito E. Michalopoulou; Constantinos Vouyoukas – Intercultural Education, 2024
For children, friends play an important role in their socio-emotional development and psychological well-being. Friendships may hold additional value for students who come from minoritized backgrounds. This study aimed to examine representations and themes of friendship in diverse Greek classrooms in which Roma and non-Roma elementary-age students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Friendship, Student Diversity
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Antonios Christodoulou; Konstantinos Tsagkaridis; Amaryllis-Chryssi Malegiannaki – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Numerous studies have explored the important role of achievement goals, as well as factors such as interest and self-efficacy, for academic performance of students of various ages. Such studies usually focus on the influence of one or two of these factors that are known to be associated with performance. At the same time, achievement goals…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Personality Traits, Influences, Mathematics Achievement