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Yovanna Chacon Valdez; Olivier Gaudet; Jérémie Verner-Filion; Marie-Hélène Véronneau – Educational Psychology, 2024
High school teachers often struggle to engage students who have little or no motivation to learn. We argue that improving students' perceptions of affective relationships with teachers may have the potential to positively influence their motivation, and vice versa. This study looks at reciprocal associations between students' perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Student Motivation, High School Students, High School Teachers
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Surina He; Xiaoxiao Liu; Ying Cui – Educational Psychology, 2025
The increasing use of low-stakes international assessments highlights the importance of test-taking efforts. Previous studies have used self-reported and response time-based measures to examine this effort. Although differences between these measures have been suggested, their association with performances and potential gender gaps remains…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Quinn-Nilas, Christopher; Kennett, Deborah J.; Maki, Karen – Educational Psychology, 2019
This study tested the factor structure of the explanatory style for failure (ESF) using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), tested measurement invariant across direct entry and transfer students, tested latent mean differences between these groups on the ESF factors, and tested a theoretical path model, whereby ESF explains variance in grades…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Failure, College Transfer Students, Foreign Countries
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Bouchard, Caroline; Sylvestre, Audette; Forget-Dubois, Nadine – Educational Psychology, 2020
This study examined the moderating role of pragmatic language skills in the relationship between perceived prosociality and gender among children in two different educational contexts and age groups (n = 108 children in childcare centres, age 4-5; n = 113 children in kindergarten, age 5-6). In line with many other studies, the results showed that…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Males, Prosocial Behavior, Preschool Teachers
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Wong, Tracy K. Y.; Konishi, Chiaki; Tao, Lydia – Educational Psychology, 2019
Guided by the school climate and social-emotional learning literature, this study explored math self-concept in relation to student-teacher relationships and students' sense of school belonging while accounting for sex differences. Participants included two random subsamples (Ns = 532; 558) of 15-year-old Canadian students who participated in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Educational Environment, Self Concept
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Huang, Xiaoting; Wilson, Mark; Wang, Lei – Educational Psychology, 2016
In recent years, large-scale international assessments have been increasingly used to evaluate and compare the quality of education across regions and countries. However, measurement variance between different versions of these assessments often posts threats to the validity of such cross-cultural comparisons. In this study, we investigated the…
Descriptors: Test Bias, International Assessment, Science Tests, Test Validity