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Keys, Tran D.; Conley, AnneMarie M.; Duncan, Greg J.; Domina, Thurston – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2012
This study examines the association between personal goal orientations and mathematics achievement within the trichotomous goal framework. Participants comprised approximately 2000 seventh and eighth grade White, Hispanic, and Vietnamese students in a low-income urban school district in California. Regression analysis with classroom fixed effects…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Vietnamese People, Mathematics Achievement, Goal Orientation
Keys, Tran Dang – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Motivation is a fundamental educational challenge for adolescents in the United States, and particularly for immigrant youth. The motivation to achieve, especially in mathematics, declines during adolescence. Most of what is known about motivation is based on studies of predominately middle-class White students; yet the influx of immigrants over…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Mathematics Achievement, Adolescents, Immigrants