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Jannes Jacobsen; Manuel Siegert – Field Methods, 2024
This article analyzes whether response patterns in surveys differ between the general population, regular immigrants, and recent refugees. Analyses show that the address quality of refugees contacted in the first wave of a panel study is worse than that of the general population, but of a similar quality to that of other recent immigrants. Once…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Immigrants, Surveys
Hancock, Dawson R.; Müller, Ulrich; Wang, Chuang; Hachen, Jeremy – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
In Germany and the U.S.A, the importance of effective school leadership toward creating successful schools is undisputed. Yet in both countries, attracting, developing, and retaining highly qualified school principals is a continuing challenge. The current study examined the impact of nine work-related factors that influenced the motivation of 145…
Descriptors: Administrators, Self Motivation, Career Choice, Foreign Countries
Nicole Gruber; Tomoko Kurahashi-Friedman – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2024
Learning strategies are important factors for students' academic success. Motivation and self-efficacy influence the choice and the use of specific learning strategies (Entwistle & Ramsden, 1983). In this study, we want to assess how these three factors and their interaction are determined by the cultural setting (eastern vs. western culture).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Motivation, Learning Strategies, Cross Cultural Studies
Brassler, Nina K.; Grund, Axel; Hilckmann, Kristina; Fries, Stefan – Educational Psychology, 2016
Although many theories mention distractions by conflicting alternatives as a problem for self-regulation, motivational conflicts are rarely considered when explaining impairments in learning. In two studies, we investigate the assumption of motivational interference theory that students show different amounts of impairments in learning depending…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Independent Study, Conflict, Interference (Learning)
Ordem, Eser – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
Although motivation has been one of the most commonly studied subjects in second and foreign language learning in recent decades, it still remains an enigma for learners and teachers. This longitudinal study aimed to follow a student (N = 1) studying German in both second and foreign language environment for three years. The study was descriptive,…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, German
Hetzner, Stefanie; Heid, Helmut; Gruber, Hans – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to an understanding of how individual characteristics and perceived contextual conditions shape reflection in professional work, particularly in workplaces that provide a variety of work experiences related to changes. The authors examine the effects of personal initiative, self-efficacy and perceived…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Professional Occupations, Reflection, Self Efficacy
Qin, Lin – European Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Taking the establishment of structured doctoral programmes in Germany as an example, this paper focuses on how knowledge production in certain academic fields reshapes their doctoral education in a widely changing policy context. Based on case studies of eight graduate schools in three research fields, namely economics, life sciences, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Programs, Case Studies
Elliot, Andrew J.; Murayama, Kou; Pekrun, Reinhard – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
In the present research, a 3 x 2 model of achievement goals is proposed and tested. The model is rooted in the definition and valence components of competence, and encompasses 6 goal constructs: task-approach, task-avoidance, self-approach, self-avoidance, other-approach, and other-avoidance. The results from 2 studies provided strong support for…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Models, Replication (Evaluation), Competence

Krapp, Andreas – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1999
Shows how heterogeneous the theoretical reconstruction of intrinsic motivation is in both empirical pedagogics and pedagogical psychology, which research questions are being posed, and to what kinds of phenomena the respective conceptual variants are applicable. A critical-comparative analysis reveals that there are differences between the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Psychology, Educational Research, Educational Theories