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Nicholle Renee Arman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this action research study was to evaluate the impact of interactive journaling on the writing self-efficacy, writing performance, and attitudes towards writing of seventh-grade students. According to the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Writing Test, only one-fourth of 8th and 12th graders are proficient at…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Writing Attitudes, Writing Achievement, Self Efficacy
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Camacho, Ana; Alves, Rui A.; De Smedt, Fien; Van Keer, Hilde; Boscolo, Pietro – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Writing is a particularly demanding activity, which poses unique motivational challenges for students. Despite the wealth of research on the relation between writing motivation and writing performance, little is known about the role of students' writing frequency in writing motivation and writing performance. Aims: We aimed to: (1)…
Descriptors: Correlation, Writing Attitudes, Motivation, Behavior Patterns
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Wright, Katherine Landau; Hodges, Tracey S.; Dismuke, Sherry; Boedeker, Peter – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2020
In many states, writing is tested only in selected grades causing writing instruction often to be over-emphasized some years and neglected in others. The present study examines how students' motivation for writing differs during the middle school years. We administered the "Self-Beliefs, Writing Beliefs, and Attitude Survey" (SWAS) to a…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Motivation, Attitude Change, Instructional Program Divisions
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Polatcan, Faruk; Sahin, Nurullah – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of secondary school students' writing tendency, writing self-efficacy and writing attitude variables and how these variables predict each other through structural equation modeling. For this purpose, the relational screening model was used and the study was carried out in academic year 2018-2019 on…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Secondary School Students, Self Efficacy, Writing Attitudes