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Role of Academic Self-Efficacy in Moderating the Relation between Task Importance and Test Anxiety
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Nie, Youyan; Lau, Shun; Liau, Albert K. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
Emphasizing task importance, which is regarded as a way of motivating engaged behavior, may increase an individual's anxiety. The present research investigated whether academic self-efficacy could moderate the maladaptive relation between task importance and test anxiety. 1978 and 1670 Grade 9 Singaporean students participated in a survey related…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Grade 9, Learning Experience, Test Anxiety
Primary and Secondary Students' Motivation in Learning English: Grade and Gender Differences
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Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; Lau, Shun; Nie, Youyan – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2011
Student motivation may have significant influences on essential academic outcomes. However, students' motivation may decline as they grow older. This study examined six motivation constructs (self-efficacy, interest, mastery goal orientation, engagement, avoidance coping, and effort withdrawal) of students from 78 schools in Singapore (N = 4214)…
Descriptors: Females, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation
Complementary Roles of Care and Behavioral Control in Classroom Management: The Self-Determination Theory Perspective
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Nie, Youyan; Lau, Shun – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2009
This study examined how classroom management practices--care and behavioral control--were differentially associated with students' engagement, misbehavior, and satisfaction with school, using a large representative sample of 3196 Grade 9 students from 117 classes in Singapore. Results of hierarchical linear modeling showed differential relations.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Behavior Problems, Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries
Task- and Self-Related Pathways to Deep Learning: The Mediating Role of Achievement Goals, Classroom Attentiveness, and Group Participation
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Lau, Shun; Liem, Arief Darmanegara; Nie, Youyan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
Background: The expectancy-value and achievement goal theories are arguably the two most dominant theories of achievement motivation in the contemporary literature. However, very few studies have examined how the constructs derived from both theories are related to deep learning. Moreover, although there is evidence demonstrating the links between…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Learning Motivation, Achievement Need, Foreign Countries