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Zheng Luo; Yixue Yang; Jiacan Sun; Wenjing Yuan; Siyuan Liu; Ling Wang – Educational Psychology, 2024
This study identified maths motivation profiles in a sample of 878 Chinese secondary school students, and examined the effects of perceived parent/teacher achievement goals on maths motivation profiles and the effects of the latter on academic outcomes. Latent profile analysis conducting on three achievement goals (mastery-approach,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Student Motivation
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Sahin, Adam; Wright, Kimberly B.; Waxman, Hersh C. – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
The purpose of this study is to investigate how Harmony Public Schools' (HPS) ' Class of 2024 high school students' current selves (high school experience, math and science efficacy, parent, and teacher expectations) affect to possible future selves (i.e. choosing a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics [STEM]-major in college). 1464…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, STEM Education, Intention, Majors (Students)
Peggy Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Over the past 150 years, schools in America have been governed by various legislations geared toward increasing learning. One recurring theme across the various acts is that of parental involvement. This led to the broad question, "How does parental involvement impact student progress for primary students in Tier 2 and Tier 3 reading…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students, Parent Influence
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Koçak, Ömer; Göksu, Idris; Göktas, Yüksel – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
The study aimed to identify the factors and to demonstrate their effects on academic achievement in various publications that utilized meta-analyses. For this purpose, the meta-analyses publications on the Web of Science-All Database till 2018 were reviewed. In the study, the systematic review method was adopted. Following a related review, 169…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Meta Analysis, Correlation
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Faisal Farid, Muhammad; Akhter, Mumtaz – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2017
Pakistani students at secondary school level were asked to respond to a self-reporting causal attributions beliefs scale. The scale measured eight causal beliefs about success and failure. Participants of the study included 1826 students from three districts in Punjab. Results showed that both male and female students endorsed internal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Attribution Theory, Student Attitudes
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Wang, Clare Wen; Neihart, Maureen – Gifted Child Today, 2015
This study investigated how perceived external factors such as supports from parents and teachers, and influences from peers contributed to the academic successes and failures of Singaporean twice-exceptional (2e) students. A total of six 2e participants from one secondary school in Singapore voluntarily participated in the study. This study used…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Teacher Influence, Peer Influence, Academic Achievement
Leung, Man-Tak; Lee, Wing-Shan – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2013
Present study, was conducted to explore the impact of parenting on self-regulated learning with mediating effect for learning motivation. The sample of the study consisted of 210 students which was conveniently sampled from universities in Hong Kong. Designed Questionnaire was used to collect the data. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles, Learning Motivation, Independent Study
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Elstad, Eyvind; Christophersen, Knut-Andreas; Turmo, Are – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2012
Introduction: The purpose of this article was to explore the influence of parents and teachers on the deep learning approach of pupils by estimating the strength of the relationships between these factors and the motivation, volition and deep learning approach of Norwegian 16-year-olds. Method: Structural equation modeling for cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Motivation, Norwegian
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Akyol, Gulsum; Sungur, Semra; Tekkaya, Ceren – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2010
This study examined the differences in the level of 7th-grade Turkish students' cognitive and metacognitive strategy use (rehearsal, elaboration, organization, critical thinking, and metacognitive self-regulation) in science and investigated the contribution of cognitive and metacognitive strategy use to students' science achievement. The present…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning, Cognitive Processes
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Duchesne, Stephane; Ratelle, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Recent literature on the determinants of academic motivation has shown that parenting and emotions are central elements in understanding students' achievement goals. The authors of this study set out to examine the predictive relationship between parental behaviors during the last year of elementary school and adolescents' achievement goals at the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Emotional Problems, Structural Equation Models
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Cano, Francisco – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2007
In the framework of the SAL (Students' approaches to learning) position, the learning experience (approaches to learning and study orchestrations) of 572 high school students was explored, examining its interrelationships with some personal and familial variables. Three major results emerged. First, links were found between family's intellectual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Learning Experience, High School Students
Jensen, Eric – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2006
Eric Jensen, a leading expert in the translation of brain research into education, argues that students' achievement capacity is greatly underappreciated. Drawing from a wide range of neuroscience research as well as related studies, the author reveals that the human brain is far more dynamic and malleable than earlier believed. He offers a…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Brain, Neurology, Intelligence