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Student Perceptions of Classroom Achievement Goal Structure: Is It Appropriate to Aggregate?
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Lam, Arena C.; Ruzek, Erik A.; Schenke, Katerina; Conley, AnneMarie M.; Karabenick, Stuart A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Student reports are a common approach to characterizing how students experience their classrooms. We used a recently developed method--multilevel confirmatory factor analysis--to determine whether commonly employed measures of achievement goal structure constructs (mastery and performance) typically verified at the student level can be verified at…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation, Mathematics Achievement, Middle School Students
Using Value-Added Models to Measure Teacher Effects on Students' Motivation and Achievement
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Ruzek, Erik A.; Domina, Thurston; Conley, AnneMarie M.; Duncan, Greg J.; Karabenick, Stuart A. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
Value-added (VA) models measure teacher contributions to student learning and are increasingly employed in educational reform efforts. Using data from 35 seventh-grade teachers and 2,026 students across seven schools, we employ VA methods to measure teacher contributions to students' motivational orientations (mastery and performance achievement…
Descriptors: Teacher Influence, Academic Achievement, Grade 7, Mathematics Achievement