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Assessing the Added Value of the Self-System Model of Motivational Development in Explaining School Engagement among Students at Risk of Early Leaving from Education and Training
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Nouwen, Ward; Clycq, Noel – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
Tackling early leaving from education and training (ELET) is one of the headline targets for education policy in the European Union. Although ELET rates have been decreasing in most member states, male, socially disadvantaged and immigrant students remain overrepresented in ELET figures. Moreover, students in vocational tracks and students who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Students, Potential Dropouts, Dropout Prevention
Research Skills in Upper Secondary Education and in First Year of University
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Maddens, Louise; Depaepe, Fien; Janssen, Rianne; Raes, Annelies; Elen, Jan – Educational Studies, 2021
The acquisition of research skills is an important goal of secondary education. Still, insights on what learner characteristics stimulate and hamper research skills are lacking. Therefore, this study investigates the relationship between students' research skills (assessed by means of the Leuven Research Skills Test (LRST) and students' gender,…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Skill Development, High School Students, Grade 11
Begin-of-School-Year Perceived Autonomy-Support and Structure as Predictors of End-of-School-Year Study Efforts and Procrastination: The Mediating Role of Autonomous and Controlled Motivation
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Mouratidis, A.; Michou, A.; Aelterman, N.; Haerens, L.; Vansteenkiste, M. – Educational Psychology, 2018
In this prospective study, we recruited a sample of Belgian adolescents (N = 886) to investigate to what extent perceived teachers' motivating style relates to quality of motivation in the beginning of the school year and, in turn, changes in study effort and procrastination by the end of the school year. After controlling for initial levels of…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Time Management, Adolescents, Student Motivation
Science Outreach Programs as a Powerful Tool for Science Promotion: An Example from Flanders
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Guedens, Wanda J.; Reynders, Monique – Journal of Chemical Education, 2012
Within the framework of the Lisbon Agreement, all European member states are encouraged to take measures to increase the number of science and technology students in higher education. To promote this educational model, a chemistry project was developed that focuses on high school students and especially on the involvement of their teachers by…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Science Education, Foreign Countries, High School Students
Motivational Profiles from a Self-Determination Perspective: The Quality of Motivation Matters
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Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Sierens, Eline; Soenens, Bart; Luyckx, Koen; Lens, Willy – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
The present research complements extant variable-centered research that focused on the dimensions of autonomous and controlled motivation through adoption of a person-centered approach for identifying motivational profiles. Both in high school students (Study 1) and college students (Study 2), a cluster analysis revealed 4 motivational profiles: a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Multivariate Analysis, Profiles, High School Students
The Impact of Attitudes toward the Personal Future on Study Motivation and Work Orientations of Nonworking Adolescents.
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Rosseel, Eric – Adolescence, 1989
Examined relationship between images of the future and aspirations of nonworking adolescents to test hypothesis that pessimism about the future results in reduced study motivation and conventional work orientations. Results from 171 high school and college students were contrary to expectations. Students had positive attitude toward future, were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, College Students, Foreign Countries