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Korpershoek, Hanke; King, Ronnel B.; McInerney, Dennis M.; Nasser, Ramzi N.; Ganotice, Fraide A.; Watkins, David A. – Research Papers in Education, 2021
The purpose of this research was to explore gender differences and cultural differences in school motivation among students from eight culturally diverse groups from Western and non-Western societies. The selected groups come from Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Australia, the Netherlands, and Qatar. More than 10,000 secondary school…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cultural Differences, Student Motivation, Achievement Need
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Korpershoek, Hanke; Kuyper, Hans; van der Werf, Greetje – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2015
In this study, we investigated the school motivation of 7,257 9th grade students in 80 secondary schools across the Netherlands. Using a multiple goal perspective, four motivation dimensions were included: performance, mastery, extrinsic, and social motivation. Our first aim was to identify distinct motivation profiles within our sample, using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Secondary School Students, Performance
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Korpershoek, Hanke; Kuyper, Hans; Bosker, Roel; van der Werf, Greetje – Research Papers in Education, 2013
The main aim of the present study was to investigate why some students do not continue in science-oriented studies in higher education despite that their previous career in secondary education proved that they were interested and suitably qualified to do so. We introduced a new approach to deal with these students' attitudes towards science,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Influences, Attribution Theory