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Hornstra, Lisette; Kamsteeg, Antoinette; Pot, Sara; Verheij, Lydia – Frontline Learning Research, 2018
Abundant research in social psychology shows human behaviour is guided by beliefs through two pathways, a deliberate and automatic pathway. Research on student motivation has thus far focused mostly on the deliberate pathway and consequently almost exclusively relied on explicit measures (i.e. self-reports of motivation) to assess student…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Secondary School Students, Association Measures, Student Behavior
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de Brabander, Cornelis J.; Glastra, Folke J. – Frontline Learning Research, 2018
This article tests the tenability of a Unified Model of Task-specific Motivation (UMTM). The UMTM integrates task-specific components from several theories of motivation. Core of the model are four interacting but relatively independent types of valences. Affective and cognitive valences represent feelings while doing an activity and thoughts…
Descriptors: Motivation, Elementary School Teachers, Models, Faculty Development
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Korpershoek, Hanke – Frontline Learning Research, 2016
The aims of the present study were (1) to identify to what extent school motivation and school commitment contributed to the explanation of students' academic achievement in addition to the effect of students' cognitive capacities, (2) to find out whether school commitment mediated the relation between school motivation and academic achievement,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Secondary School Students, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement