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Schrodt, Katie; FitzPatrick, Erin; Brown, Megan; Hover, Ashlee – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
Motivation impacts student academic performance. A performance task to directly assess writing motivation in young children is needed. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the validity of the Writing Challenge Task (WCT), a task-oriented assessment created to measure writing motivation with 106 kindergarten students in the rural…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Evaluation Methods, Student Motivation, Kindergarten
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Kelly McGinn; Laura Young; Alexandra Huyghe; Julie Booth – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Recent work has demonstrated that having students study worked examples and answer self-explanation prompts as part of their problem-solving practice improves learning on researcher-developed measures of mathematical proficiency. However, little work has been done to date to investigate whether these benefits translate to improvements on the types…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Prompting, Mathematics Tests, Standardized Tests
Kelly M. McGinn; Laura K. Young; Alexandra Huyghe; Julie L. Booth – Grantee Submission, 2023
Recent work has demonstrated that having students study worked examples and answer self-explanation prompts as part of their problem-solving practice improves learning on researcher-developed measures of mathematical proficiency. However, little work has been done to date to investigate whether these benefits translate to improvements on the types…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Prompting, Mathematics Tests, Standardized Tests
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Meyer, Jennifer; Schmidt, Fabian T. C.; Fleckenstein, Johanna; Köller, Olaf – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Many empirical investigations focus on how personality traits and academic motivation are related to academic achievement. Regarding the personality traits described in the five-factor model, prior research has shown associations between openness to experience and language achievement in particular. Following the principle of trait…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, German, Personality Traits, Student Motivation