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Students' Perceptions of Mathematics Classroom Goal Structures: Implications for Perceived Task Values and Study Behavior
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Skaalvik, Einar M.; Federici, Roger A.; Wigfield, Allan; Tangen, Truls N. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2017
Relations between 8th and 10th grade students' perceptions of classroom goal structures, task values, anxiety, help-seeking behavior, and effort in mathematics classes were examined. The authors investigated whether the associations between perceived goal structures and anxiety, help-seeking behavior, and effort are mediated through students'…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 10, Goal Orientation, Student Attitudes
Mathematics Anxiety and Coping Strategies among Middle School Students: Relations with Students' Achievement Goal Orientations and Level of Performance
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Skaalvik, Einar M. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore relations between students' prior grades in mathematics, achievement goal orientations in math classes, math anxiety, and students coping strategies in math classes. Three achievement goal orientations (mastery goals, performance-approach goals, and performance-avoidance goals) and two coping strategies…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Coping, Middle School Students, Academic Achievement
Affective-Motivational Aspects of Early Childhood Teacher Students' Knowledge about Mathematics
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Thiel, Oliver; Jenssen, Lars – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
One goal among many in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is that children develop positive attitudes towards mathematics. In order to support this development, teachers need professional competence in both cognitive and affective-motivational facets. Teacher students need to develop this professional competence during their initial teacher…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Instruction, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries
Students' Perceptions of the Goal Structure in Mathematics Classrooms: Relations with Goal Orientations, Mathematics Anxiety, and Help-Seeking Behavior
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Federici, Roger A.; Skaalvik, Einar M.; Tangen, Truls N. – International Education Studies, 2015
This study explores relations between students' perceptions of the classroom goal structures, their personal goal orientations, mathematics anxiety, and help-seeking behavior in mathematics classes. The respondents were 309 Norwegian middle school students. The data were analyzed by means of structural equation modeling (SEM). The analyses…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Goal Orientation, Mathematics Anxiety
Students' Perceptions of Emotional and Instrumental Teacher Support: Relations with Motivational and Emotional Responses
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Federici, Roger A.; Skaalvik, Einar M. – International Education Studies, 2014
We explored whether students' perceptions of emotional and instrumental support provided by their mathematics teacher constitute separate dimensions of teacher support and how they are related. We also analyzed how students' perceptions of emotional and instrumental support in math lessons relate to math anxiety, intrinsic motivation, help-seeking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Teachers