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Direct linkXu, Jianzhong – Educational Psychology, 2010
The present study linked gender and grade level to homework management strategies and homework completion behaviours. The participants were 685 African American students in the south-eastern USA, including 370 eighth graders and 315 eleventh graders. Gender appeared related to the majority of homework measures examined in the present study.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Homework, Gender Differences, Grade 8
Fan, Weihua; Williams, Cathy M. – Educational Psychology, 2010
This research examined whether various dimensions of parental involvement predicted 10th-grade students' motivation (engagement, self-efficacy towards maths and English, intrinsic motivation towards maths and English) using data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS 2002). Results showed that both parents' educational aspiration for…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
Virtanen, Paivi; Nevgi, Anne – Educational Psychology, 2010
This study explores how university students representing diverse disciplines and gender differ in their self-regulation in learning. The definition of self-regulated learning (SRL) in the present study is based on Pintrich's and Zimmerman's theories of SRL and comprises motivational and learning strategies. The sample consisted of 1248…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Gender Differences, Metacognition
Natale, Katja; Viljaranta, Jaana; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Educational Psychology, 2009
The present study investigated whether kindergarten teachers' causal attributions would predict children's reading-related task motivation and performance, or whether it is rather children's motivation and performance that contribute to teachers' causal attributions. To investigate this, 69 children (five to six years old at baseline) and their…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Motivation, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Mouratidis, Athanasios; Lens, Willy; Sideridis, Georgios D. – Educational Psychology, 2010
In two cross-sectional studies, we investigated to what extent elementary (Study 1) and middle school (Study 2) students pursue similar, yet distinct, mastery-related and performance-related goals in physical education. We found that students were more likely to endorse outcome goals in conjunction with mastery-related goals and ability goals in…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness, Achievement Need
Lodewyk, Ken R.; Winne, Philip H.; Jamieson-Noel, Dianne L. – Educational Psychology, 2009
School tasks interact with student motivation, cognition, and instruction to influence learning and achievement. Heeding calls for additional research linking motivational and cognitive factors in learning and instruction on specific tasks within authentic classroom settings we quantitatively and qualitatively track 90 tenth-grade science…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Goal Orientation
Fan, Weiqiao; Zhang, Li-Fang; Watkins, David – Educational Psychology, 2010
The study examined the incremental validity of thinking styles in predicting academic achievement after controlling for personality and achievement motivation in the hypermedia-based learning environment. Seventy-two Chinese college students from Shanghai, the People's Republic of China, took part in this instructional experiment. The…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Personality Traits, Essay Tests, Academic Achievement
Phan, Huy Phuong – Educational Psychology, 2009
Research exploring students' academic learning has recently amalgamated different motivational theories within one conceptual framework. The inclusion of achievement goals, self-efficacy, deep processing and critical thinking has been cited in a number of studies. This article discusses two empirical studies that examined these four theoretical…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Path Analysis
Klassen, Robert M.; Kuzucu, Elcin – Educational Psychology, 2009
This article presents a study of academic procrastination and associated motivation variables in 508 adolescents from a general secondary school in central Turkey. Girls reported higher levels of self-efficacy for self-regulation and predicted higher Turkish grades than boys, but there was no difference in levels of procrastination. Academic…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Petersen, Il-haam; Louw, Johann; Dumont, Kitty – Educational Psychology, 2009
Adjustment to the university environment is regarded as an important factor in predicting university outcomes. This study explores the pathways taken by adjustment and other psychosocial variables (help-seeking, academic motivation, self-esteem, perceived stress, and perceived academic overload), in relation to the success of economically and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Questionnaires
Au, Raymond C. P.; Watkins, David A.; Hattie, John A. C. – Educational Psychology, 2010
The aim of the present study is to explore a causal model of academic achievement and learning-related personal variables by testing the nature of relationships between learned hopelessness, its risk factors and hopelessness deficits as proposed in major theories in this area. The model investigates affective-motivational characteristics of…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Causal Models, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Law, Yin-kum – Educational Psychology, 2008
Two studies were conducted to investigate the effects of cooperative learning on second-graders' motivation and learning from text. In Study 1, students (n = 160) in cooperative learning groups were compared with their counterparts (n = 107) in traditional instruction groups. The results revealed a statistically significant difference between the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Student Motivation, Cooperative Learning
Ciani, Keith D.; Summers, Jessica J.; Easter, Matthew A.; Sheldon, Kennon M. – Educational Psychology, 2008
This study used self-determination theory as a framework to examine the relationship between choice regarding group membership and student motivation within classrooms that use collaborative learning as an instructional tool. Data were collected from over 500 students across seven classrooms from a large university in the Midwestern United States.…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Group Membership, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation
Corpus, Jennifer Henderlong; Lepper, Mark R. – Educational Psychology, 2007
Two studies were conducted to determine how gender and age moderate the long-term and post-failure motivational consequences of person versus performance praise. In Study 1, fourth- and fifth-grade students (n = 93) engaged in a puzzle task while receiving either no praise, person praise, product praise, or process praise. Following a subsequent…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 4, Positive Reinforcement, Preschool Children
Hustinx, Paul W. J.; Kuyper, Hans; van der Werf, Margaretha P. C.; Dijkstra, Pieternel – Educational Psychology, 2009
During recent decades, the classical one-dimensional concept of achievement motivation has become less popular among motivation researchers. This study aims to revive the concept by demonstrating its predictive power using longitudinal data from two cohort samples, each with 20,000 Dutch secondary school students. Two measures of achievement…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Achievement Need, Student Motivation, Secondary School Students
