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Yeager, David Scott; Bundick, Matthew J. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2009
What type of work goals provide adolescents with the sense that schoolwork is important and that their lives are meaningful? This mixed-methods study of a diverse sample of 6th-, 9th-, and 12th-grade adolescents (N = 148) investigated the relationship between work goals, purpose, and meaning using a semistructured interview and a survey. Interview…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Adolescents, Hermeneutics
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Chua, Siew Lian; Wong, Angela F. L.; Chen, Der-Thanq – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2009
Associations between the nature of Chinese Language Classroom Environments and Singapore secondary school students' motivation to learn the Chinese Language were investigated. A sample of 1,460 secondary three (grade 9) students from 50 express stream (above average academic ability) classes in Singapore government secondary schools was involved…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Multiple Regression Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grade 9