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Vedder-Weiss, Dana; Fortus, David – Research in Science Education, 2018
Employing achievement goal theory (AmesĀ "Journal of Educational psychology," 84(3), 261-271, 1992), we explored science teachers' instruction and its relation to students' motivation for science learning and school culture. Based on the TARGETS framework (Patrick et al. "The Elementary School Journal," 102(1), 35-58, 2001) and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Lam, Chun Bun; Greene, Kaylin M.; McHale, Susan M. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The developmental course, family correlates, and adjustment implications of youth housework participation from age 8-18 were examined. Mothers, fathers, and 2 siblings from 201 European American families provided questionnaire and/or daily diary data on 6 occasions across 7 years. Multilevel modeling within an accelerated longitudinal design…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Adolescents, Working Hours
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Neugebauer, Sabina Rak – Reading Psychology, 2014
Commonly used literacy motivation assessments do not specifically explore literacy motivation in school. These context-general assessments may be problematic for struggling adolescent readers, as qualitative research documents that these adolescents exhibit different levels of cross-context motivation. The present study explores whether an…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Adolescents, Reading Difficulties, Questionnaires