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Feng Zhang; Silin Huang – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Exploring the factors that benefit academic persistence may facilitate adolescents' positive outcomes to increase the likelihood of future success, especially for adolescents with low family socioeconomic status (SES). Previous research has highlighted the merits of both motivational beliefs (e.g., self-efficacy and interests) and learning…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adolescents, Low Income Students, Social Influences
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Behizadeh, Nadia – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to examine two teachers' beliefs and practices on teaching writing at an urban, high-performing middle school to determine: What discourses of writing are being taught in an urban, high-performing US public middle school? What factors prevent or enable particular discourses? Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on case…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Writing Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Yazdani, Neshat; Siedlecki, Karen L.; Cao, Zihuan; Cham, Heining – Elementary School Journal, 2020
Extensive literature highlights positive outcomes experienced by students whose parents and teachers have strong relationships, but less is known about the factors that influence parent-teacher relationship strength. Using data from "The Impact of Grade Retention: A Developmental Approach," we identify parent-level predictors of the…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Predictor Variables, Interpersonal Relationship, Elementary Schools
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Liou, Pey-Yan; Lin, Yao-Mei; Huang, Ssu-Ching; Chen, Sufen – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
This study investigated gender disparities in students' science motivational beliefs, conceptualized as self-concept and intrinsic value, from Grades 4 to 8 in 22 countries. The gender-specific relation between science motivational beliefs and achievement was also scrutinized. Data from the 2011 and 2015 national cohorts of the Trends in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Nelson, Andrew A.; Brown, Christia Spears – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
Sexualized gender stereotypes (SGS) are commonly endorsed by adolescent girls. These stereotypes include the notion that girls can enhance their social status by prioritizing their sexualized attractiveness, which necessitates downplaying other traits such as intelligence. According to the stereotype emulation hypothesis, a girl will be more…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Females, Social Influences, Student Motivation
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Clark, Levina; Tiggemann, Marika – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2007
This study tested whether an individual's beliefs about the importance of appearance in their life is a mediator of sociocultural influences on body dissatisfaction in young girls. Participants were 265 girls in Grades 4 to 7 (M age = 10.71 years) from 5 private primary schools in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia. Girls completed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6