This study focuses upon the effectiveness of project-based learning on primary school pupils with learning difficulties regarding their academic performance and attitudes towards self efficacy, task value, group work and teaching methods applied. The present study is a part of a larger one that included six Greek fourth-grade primary school…

Measures of achievement motivation, scholastic performance, role conflict, and popularity were obtained for second and fifth graders. A positive relationship between achievement motivation and scholastic performance was found for upper graders with low role conflict and upper graders high in sociometric status. Findings for second graders were…

When students enter the classroom they are confronted with a wide variety of goals to strive for, activities to engage in, and challenges to face, across a number of domains: academic, artistic, sporting and social. Recently, there has been a growing recognition of this complexity of goals among researchers interested in student's motivational…