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Anna Hawrot; Ji Zhou – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Although several longitudinal studies have confirmed that need-supportive teacher behaviour shapes intrinsic motivation in school, longitudinal studies on its role for intrinsic reading motivation are lacking. To fill in this gap, this study investigated whether changes in selected aspects of student-perceived teacher need-supportive behaviour in…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Predictor Variables, Reading Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Sebastian Bergold; Ricarda Steinmayr – Child Development, 2024
Based on investment theories and guided by Mussel's (2013) intellect model, the present study investigated reciprocal relations over 1 year (2021-2022) between investment traits (need for cognition, achievement motives, epistemic curiosity) and fluid and crystallized cognitive abilities in 565 German elementary school children (298 girls;…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Cognitive Ability, Elementary School Students, Student Motivation
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Anne Stellmacher; Sebastian Franz; Jennifer Paetsch – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Not every student who enrolls in a teacher training program completes it and obtains a degree. Students dropping out of vocational teacher training is a particularly concerning trend in Germany, where there is a significant shortage of vocational education and training (VET) teachers. Against this backdrop, it is crucial to understand why students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Academic Persistence
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Clara Mumme; Laura M. Leipert; Regina Vollmeyer – Discover Education, 2025
This study investigates the predictive influences of expectancies and values that may sustain students' dropout intentions in physics as well as gender differences in students' motivation and intention. Eccles's expectancy-value model was used to frame the study. The academic self-concept (expectancy component) and value components focusing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expectation, Values, Dropout Attitudes
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Wild, Steffen; Rahn, Sebastian; Meyer, Thomas – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
Student dropout in higher education is a challenge for higher education systems. In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on analyzing motivational aspects in order to counteract dropout. However, the detailed impact mechanisms and processes of motivation on dropout have not been sufficiently researched. For example, there is very…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Cooperative Education, Dropout Characteristics
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Julia Hormuth; Marlene Ferencz; Jutta Heikkilä; Taija Ihamäki – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2025
Student academic success plays an important role in higher education institutions, as it is often used as a core measure of university performance. Internationally, there is an extensive literature on the predictors of academic success. In addition to intellectual variables, the effects of psychological factors have received increased attention.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Personality Traits, Student Motivation, Predictor Variables
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Tibken, Catharina; Richter, Tobias; von der Linden, Nicole; Schmiedeler, Sandra; Schneider, Wolfgang – Child Development, 2022
Gifted underachievers perform worse in school than would be expected based on their high intelligence. Possible causes for underachievement are low motivational dispositions (need for cognition) and metacognitive competences. This study tested the interplay of these variables longitudinally with gifted and non-gifted students from Germany…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Academically Gifted, Grade 6
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Lohbeck, Annette; Frenzel, Anne Christiane – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Background: Numerous studies have explored pre-service teachers' motivation for choosing teaching as a career and the relations of pre-service teachers' motivation profile membership to long-term consequences. In contrast, little is still known about certain predictors and the more proximal consequences of pre-service teachers' motivation profile…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Profiles, Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation)
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Engelschalk, Tobias; Steuer, Gabriele; Dresel, Markus – Educational Psychology, 2017
Effective regulation of motivation can be theoretically explained by both the extent of motivational regulation strategies used (quantity) and their optimal implementation (quality). Researchers have not yet analysed the significance of both aspects for learning success simultaneously. In the present study, 188 students were presented with…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Regression (Statistics)
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Parrisius, Cora; Gaspard, Hanna; Zitzmann, Steffen; Trautwein, Ulrich; Nagengast, Benjamin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
In their situated expectancy-value theory, Eccles and Wigfield (2020) assume students' competence and value beliefs to be situation-specific and thereby to be "situative" in nature. Even though motivation research has gradually been developing an understanding of this situative nature, for instance, by disentangling time-consistent and…
Descriptors: Competence, Grade 9, High School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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van der Beek, Sophie; Bellhäuser, Henrik; Hertel, Silke – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2021
In preparation for graduating from high school, students face the challenge of having to learn the subject matter of several school years with little guidance. The ability to self-regulate learning is conducive to this. Research has shown that students' self-regulated learning can be successfully promoted through training. However, when such…
Descriptors: High School Students, Self Management, Training, Intervention
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Rump, Markus; Esdar, Wiebke; Wild, Elke – European Journal of Higher Education, 2017
The present study investigated individual differences in the effects of academic motivation based on self-determination theory (SDT), particularly intrinsic motivation, as well as identified, introjected, and external regulation on higher education students' intention to drop out. Based on previous research, we challenged the assumption of a…
Descriptors: Motivation, Individual Differences, Intention, Higher Education
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Nalipay, Ma. Jenina N.; Cai, Yuyang; King, Ronnel B. – School Psychology International, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to examine whether parents' utility value perceptions predicted their children's utility value perceptions, demonstrating social contagion effects. We also examined whether utility value would predict achievement. This is a cross-sectional study that utilized data from a subsample of adolescent students from…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Beliefs, Value Judgment, Predictor Variables
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Locher, Franziska Maria; Becker, Sarah; Schiefer, Irene; Pfost, Maximilian – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
Reading self-concept is an important predictor of reading comprehension and vice versa. However, the mechanisms that are at work in this relation have yet to be identified. In line with the self-enhancement approach, we propose that in the reading domain, amount of reading, book choice (text difficulty and book length), and intrinsic reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Self Concept, Correlation, Predictor Variables
Locher, Franziska Maria; Becker, Sarah; Pfost, Maximilian – AERA Open, 2019
In comparison with younger children, older students tend to be less motivated to read. A literature class that fails to motivate students is one aspect that has often been discussed in this regard. Using data from 405 German ninth graders, we examined how students' book reading is related to intrinsic situational and intrinsic habitual reading…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Grade 9, Books, Recreational Reading
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