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School-Based Motivational Interviewing: Change and Sustain Talks during Goal Setting
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Te Qi; Gill Strait; Anthony Roberson; John D. Terry – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
The student check-up (SCU) is a brief school-based motivational interviewing intervention developed to promote academic-related behavioral changes and to increase accessibility to mental health services. Despite published randomized controlled trials demonstrating SCU's effectiveness in promoting student self-efficacy in academic efforts, the…
Descriptors: Students, Student Behavior, Mental Health, Mental Health Programs
A Cross-Cultural Latent Profile Analysis of University Students' Cognitive Test Anxiety and Related Cognitive-Motivational Factors
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Christopher L. Thomas; Omer Ozer – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The successful treatment of test anxiety treatment requires an understanding of the unique barriers and challenges faced by test-anxious students. Therefore, the current study utilized a combination of person-centered and qualitative methods to investigate the existence of unique subpopulations or subtypes of test-anxious students within Turkish…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Test Anxiety, Metacognition, Goal Orientation
Does Attending a Deeper Learning School Promote Student Motivation, Engagement, Perseverance, and Achievement?
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Agger, Charlotte A.; Koenka, Alison C. – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
The evolving economic landscape of the 21st century demands graduates who possess deeper learning (DL) competencies such as critical thinking and collaboration skills. Despite their importance, little work has examined the motivational mechanisms through which DL predicts essential academic outcomes. The current study (N = 1,288) used an…
Descriptors: Competence, Critical Thinking, Self Efficacy, Mastery Learning
Investigating Identity-Related Weak Developmental Assets and Their Barriers in Iranian Female Adolescents: Self-Worth, Self-Efficacy, and Personal Power
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Aghatabay, Rabea; Vaezi, Aliakbar; Mazloomy Mahmoodabad, Seyed Saeed; Rahimi, Mehdi; Fallahzadeh, Hosein; Alizadeh, Somayeh – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Achievement of a positive identity and its transition to adulthood is the most important task of the adolescent era. This cross-sectional explanatory mixed-method study sought to better understand barriers to identity development in female adolescents in Iran by explaining their own experiences and using a Positive Youth Development model as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Adolescents, Self Esteem
Do You Know What I'm Thinking? A Comparison of Teacher and Parent Perspectives of Underachieving Gifted Students' Attitudes
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Siegle, Del; DaVia Rubenstein, Lisa; McCoach, D. Betsy – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
The Achievement Orientation Model posits students are motivated to do well in school when they believe they have the necessary skills to perform a task (self-efficacy), find the task meaningful (goal valuation), and see their environment as supportive. When these factors are present, students self-regulate and achieve. We examined these factors…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted
Self-Efficacy, Goal Orientation, and Fear of Failure as Predictors of School Engagement in High School Students.
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Caraway, Kirsten; Tucker, Carolyn M.; Reinke, Wendy M.; Hall, Charles – Psychology in the Schools, 2003
The present study examined the degree of association of three specific self-variables (self-efficacy, goal orientation, and fear of failure) with school engagement for high school students. The results and implications for intervention and future research are addressed. (Contains 30 references and 3 tables.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation, High School Students, High Schools
Learning and Motivation of Chinese Students in Hong Kong: A Longitudinal Study of Contextual Influences on Students' Achievement Orientation and Performance.
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Salili, Farideh; Lai, Man Kin – Psychology in the Schools, 2003
Investigates the effects of medium of instruction and ability grouping (banding) of schools on students' learning and achievement orientation. The results showed that students studying in upper band schools (i.e., low-ability schools) used fewer strategies in learning, had lower self-efficacy, higher surface goal and lower attainment scores than…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Context Effect, Foreign Countries