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Heterogeneity of Student Perceptions of the Classroom Climate: A Latent Profile Approach
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Schenke, Katerina; Ruzek, Erik; Lam, Arena C.; Karabenick, Stuart A.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Learning Environments Research, 2017
Student perceptions are a pivotal point of measurement for understanding why classroom learning environments are effective. Yet there is some evidence that student perceptions cannot be reliably aggregated at the classroom level and, instead, could represent idiosyncratic experiences of students. The present study examines whether heterogeneity in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Academic Achievement, Grade 7, Mathematics Instruction
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
Extracurricular Involvement and Adolescent Adjustment: Impact of Duration, Number of Activities, and Breadth of Participation
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Fredricks, Jennifer A.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Applied Developmental Science, 2006
The purpose of the current investigation was to examine the associations between a variety of measures of extracurricular participation and indicators of youth development. We use data from the Childhood and Beyond Study, a larger longitudinal study of adolescent development. The sample is primarily White middle-class adolescents in Grades 7…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Youth Clubs, Athletics, Participation
Ethnicity as a Social Context for the Development of African-American Adolescents
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Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Wong, Carol A.; Peck, Stephen C. – Journal of School Psychology, 2006
Does anticipated future racial discrimination undermine African-American adolescents' academic motivation and performance? Do face-to-face experiences with racial discrimination at school undermine African-American adolescents' academic functioning? Does African-American ethnic identity buffer these relations? This paper addresses these questions…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Social Environment, African Americans, Adolescents