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Umarji, Osman; Wan, Sirui; Wolff, Fabian; Eccles, Jacquelynne – Developmental Psychology, 2023
This study synthesizes theories of achievement motivation to better understand the development of academic task values in high school students and their relation to college major selection. We utilize longitudinal structural equation modeling to understand how grades relate to task values, how task values across domains relate to one another over…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Majors (Students), Decision Making, Student Motivation
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Sweeder, Ryan D.; Kursav, Merve N.; Cass, Samantha M. F.; Matz, Rebecca L. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2019
As a residential college within Michigan State University that focuses on STEM fields, Lyman Briggs College developed a STEM learning community to support students with low mathematics placement test scores, the Instilling Quantitative and Integrative Reasoning program (INQUIRE). INQUIRE serves some of those students considered historically…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Communities of Practice, College Mathematics, Student Placement
Webb, Noreen; Herman, Joan; Webb, Norman – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2006
In this report we explore the role of reviewer agreement in judgments about alignment between tests and standards. Specifically, we consider approaches to describing alignment that incorporate reviewer agreement information in different ways. The essential questions were whether and how taking into account reviewer agreement changes the picture of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, Student Evaluation