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Nele Claes; Annique Smeding; Arnaud Carré; Nicolas Sommet – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
We conducted three preregistered studies using the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data to provide a worldwide estimation of the standardized test gap between students from lower and higher social classes. We investigated: (a) the degree to which academic anxiety…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Michiel Boncquet; Nele Flamant; Jeroen Lavrijsen; Maarten Vansteenkiste; Karine Verschueren; Bart Soenens – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
This study examined the unique and interactive role of students' quality of motivation, as defined in self-determination theory, and their mindsets about intelligence, as conceptualized in Dweck's framework, in predicting a variety of learning outcomes (engagement, learning strategies, persistence, procrastination, and test anxiety) and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation, Academic Achievement
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Marianne Rice; Kausalai Wijekumar – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Theoretical models of reading comprehension have consistently highlighted the importance of inference generation in the meaning-making process. Additionally, previous research has indicated that instruction in making inferences is effective at improving inference ability and general reading comprehension. In this meta-analysis, we aimed to further…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Instructional Effectiveness
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Ocyna Rudmann; Anatolia Batruch; Emilio Paolo Visintin; Nicolas Sommet; Pascal Bressoux; Céline Darnon; Marinette Bouet; Marco Bressan; Genavee Brown; Carlos Cepeda; Anthony Cherbonnier; Marie Demolliens; Anne-Laure De Place; Olivier Desrichard; Théo Ducros; Luc Goron; Brivael Hemon; Pascal Huguet; Eric Jamet; Ruben Martinez; Vincent Mazenod; Nathalie Mella; Estelle Michinov; Nicolas Michinov; Nana Ofosu; Pascal Pansu; Laurine Peter; Benoit Petitcollot; Celine Poletti; Isabelle Régner; Mathilde Riant; Anais Robert; Camille Sanrey; Arnaud Stanczak; Farouk Toumani; Simon Vilmin; Eva Vives; Fabrizio Butera – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Considering the evolving and unpredictable job market, adaptability is an important skill for young adults. Such adaptability implies that schools need to teach key social competences, like communication, collaboration, or problem-solving. In this area, a gender gap has consistently been found, showing that boys display social competences less…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Gender Differences, Interpersonal Competence, Longitudinal Studies
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Xiaojing Lv; Yujie Jia; Thomas M. Brinthaupt; Xuezhu Ren – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Despite the recognized importance of addressing belief bias in critical thinking, little is known about the neural activity underlying belief-bias reasoning and its connection to critical thinking. The study utilized event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the neural responses during belief-bias reasoning and explored the extent to which these…
Descriptors: Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Beliefs, Bias
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Jimena Cosso; David J. Purpura; Hirokazu Yoshikawa – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
The home numeracy environment (HNE) is an essential factor to explain family engagement in relation to numeracy. Research in this field has mostly focused on English-speaking families and has not taken into consideration cultural differences that contextualize the home environment. Measuring HNE in more ethnically diverse samples might counter…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Numeracy, Hispanic Americans, Cultural Differences
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Hyejeong Oh; Helen Patrick; Jessica Kilday; Allison Ryan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
This study draws on basic psychological needs (BPN) theory to investigate multiple ways that perceived relatedness is important for understanding students' help-seeking behavior in college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. Participants were 590 undergraduates (38% women; 65% European American, 24% Asian/Pacific…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Help Seeking, Personal Autonomy
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Anna K. Nishen; Hannah Streck; Ursula Kessels; Ricarda Steinmayr – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Educational science has consistently examined what drives adolescents to aspire to occupations in math-related fields -- and which factors, such as gender stereotypes, may drive them away. In this study, we utilized a large longitudinal data set (N = 1,092) to test whether past grades, gender, and the math level of mothers' and fathers'…
Descriptors: Prediction, Occupational Aspiration, Mathematics Achievement, Grades (Scholastic)
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Kelly-Ann Gesuelli; Nancy C. Jordan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Fraction arithmetic facility is fundamental to learning more advanced math topics. However, attaining the ability to add and subtract fractions is hard for many students. The present longitudinal study examined students' growth on simple addition and subtraction word problems between fourth and sixth grades (N = 536). Latent class growth analyses…
Descriptors: Fractions, Arithmetic, Error Patterns, Mathematics Instruction
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Bastian Carstensen; Karen Aldrup; Oliver Lüdtke; Uta Klusmann – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Teachers' emotional exhaustion is related to various detrimental outcomes, such as work absenteeism, intention to quit, impaired instructional quality, and lower student motivation. Since emotional exhaustion becomes evident as early as teacher training at university, the question is whether it would be possible to identify an individual…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Fatigue (Biology), Student Teachers, Longitudinal Studies
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Elizabeth Olivier; Alexandre J. S. Morin; Isabelle Plante; Isabelle Archambault; Véronique Dupéré – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
This study seeks to identify the configurations of classroom teaching practices, defined based on the classroom goal structures (mastery-approach, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance) and social climate (academic support, emotional support, mutual respect, and task-related interactions) to which a sample of 1,453 seventh graders…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Public Schools, Grade 7, Secondary School Students
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Pumpki Lei Su; Raúl Rojas; Jill de Villiers; Roberta Golinkoff; Aquiles Iglesias – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Bilingual children demonstrate varying levels of proficiency in each of the two languages to which they are exposed. Even though it is widely acknowledged that bilingual children are not a homogenous group, existing studies on dual-language profiles in bilingual children have focused on expressive language profiles. In this study, we used the…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Ye Shen; J. Marc Goodrich – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Spanish-speaking students constitute the largest subgroup of emergent bilingual (EB) students in the United States. Using longitudinal data on a nationally representative sample of Spanish-English EBs, we explore profiles of English reading trajectories and how early individual differences (i.e., early Spanish reading and English oral proficiency)…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction