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Hoffman, Adam J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
It has been documented that American Indians and girls consistently underperform in STEM achievement compared to their European American and male counterparts, starting as early as adolescence. The goal of the current study was to develop a brief intervention aimed at mitigating the STEM achievement gap by shaping ethnic and gender identities to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, American Indian Students, Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Lin, Pei-Yi; Schunn, Christian D. – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
Learners encounter science in a wide variety of contexts beyond the science classroom which collectively could be quite influential on student attitudes and abilities. But relatively little is known about the relative influence of different forms of informal science experiences, especially for the kinds of experiences that students typically…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Education, Student Attitudes, Informal Education
Wijsman, Lindy A.; Warrens, Matthijs J.; Saab, Nadira; van Driel, Jan H.; Westenberg, P. Michiel – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2016
Student performance is related to motivation to learn. As motivation generally declines during lower secondary education, one might expect performance to decline as well during this period. Though, until now, it has been unclear whether this pattern exists. In the present study, we examined student performance during the early years of secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students
Wilson, Andrew; Kim, Wonsun – International Education Studies, 2016
The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of concept mapping on mastery goal orientation and academic self-efficacy in a collaborative learning environment. The current study employed a randomized controlled pretest-posttest group design to examine if learning strategies such as concept mapping can help students with both reading…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Self Efficacy, Mastery Learning, Goal Orientation
Sartawi, AbdelAziz; Alsawaie, Othman N.; Dodeen, Hamzeh; Tibi, Sana; Alghazo, Iman M. – Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2012
This study investigated the extent to which self-efficacy and motivation served as a predictor for mathematics achievement of fifth grade students in United Arab Emirates (UAE) across gender and achievement levels. Self-efficacy was measured by two scales, which differed in levels of specificity--Category Specific and Task Specific. Motivation was…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Gender Differences, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Smart, Julie B. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2014
This mixed-methods study examined the relationship between middle level science students' perceptions of teacher-student interactions and students' science motivation, particulary their efficacy, value, and goal orientation for learning science. In this sequential explanatory design, quantitative and qualitative data were collected in two phases,…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Attitudes, Qualitative Research
Zhu, Xihe; Chen, Ang – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
This study reports adolescent expectancy-value motivation, and its relation to fitness knowledge and psychomotor skill learning in physical education. Students (N = 854) from 12 middle schools provided data on expectancy-value motivation, fitness knowledge and psychomotor skill learning. Results from dependent t-test and MANOVA indicated that 8th…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Middle School Students, Racquet Sports, Physical Fitness
Factors Affecting the Motivation to Learn among United Arab Emirates Middle and High School Students
Khamis, Vivian; Dukmak, Samir; Elhoweris, Hala – Educational Studies, 2008
This study was designed to examine the relative contributions of student and parents' socio-demographics, students' beliefs about learning, parental support of children's learning, peers' attitudes towards learning, teacher-student interaction and curriculum content to students' motivation to learn. The sample consisted of 275 school-age children…
Descriptors: Arabs, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation, High School Students