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Wolff, Fabian; Wigfield, Allan; Möller, Jens; Dicke, Anna-Lena; Eccles, Jacquelynne Sue – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
The present research examined the joint effects of social, dimensional, and temporal comparisons on students' academic self-concepts and parents' beliefs about their children's competencies during students' transition phase from elementary school to junior high school. To this end, we tested the newly developed 2I/E model using longitudinal data…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Junior High School Students, Academic Ability, Self Concept
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Klee, Holly L.; Miller, Angela D. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
Mathematics anxiety negatively impacts cognitive processing, performance, expectations, motivation, and future choices. However, research has not examined patterns in students' mathematics anxiety levels over time. The current study addresses this gap by exploring group-based trajectories in mathematics anxiety during the transition to junior high…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Student Adjustment, Junior High School Students, Elementary School Students
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Lazarides, Rebecca; Dicke, Anna-Lena; Rubach, Charlott; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Four topics were investigated in this longitudinal person-centered study: (a) profiles of subjective task values and ability self-concepts of adolescents in the domain of mathematics, (b) the stability of and changes to the profiles of motivational beliefs from Grade 7 to 12, (c) the relation of changes to student-perceived classroom…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Beliefs, Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment
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Hall, Leigh A. – Reading Research and Instruction, 2007
This year long case study examined: (a) how a seventh-grade struggling reader transacted with the reading task demands of her mathematics classroom and (b) how her teacher responded to her in regards to these reading task demands. The results suggest that struggling readers may engage in behaviors that are designed to help others construct…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Ability, Low Achievement, Grade 7
BROOKOVER, WILBUR B.; AND OTHERS – 1962
VARIOUS EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE HAS SHOWN THAT SELF-CONCEPT OF ABILITY IS RELATED TO SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT AND IS CAPABLE OF MEASUREMENT. A SELF-CONCEPT OF ABILITY SCALE WAS DEVELOPED IN TWO FORMS--(1) GENERAL SELF-CONCEPT OF ABILITY AND (2) SELF-CONCEPT OF ABILITY IN SPECIFIC SCHOOL SUBJECTS. MAJOR RESULTS OF THE STUDY REVEALED THAT (1) SEVENTH-GRADE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Family Characteristics, Grade 7
Pontiac City School District, MI. – 1975
In two succeeding years, 1974 and 1975, the same attitude questionnaire is given to students in succeeding grades to determine attitude change as they move from third to fourth grade or from sixth to seventh grade. Rather than reporting on each of thirty-five attitude items separately, a statistical technique is applied to select the most…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Class Organization, Cluster Analysis