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Direct linkKorpershoek, Hanke; King, Ronnel B.; McInerney, Dennis M.; Nasser, Ramzi N.; Ganotice, Fraide A.; Watkins, David A. – Research Papers in Education, 2021
The purpose of this research was to explore gender differences and cultural differences in school motivation among students from eight culturally diverse groups from Western and non-Western societies. The selected groups come from Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Australia, the Netherlands, and Qatar. More than 10,000 secondary school…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cultural Differences, Student Motivation, Achievement Need
Fokkens-Bruinsma, M.; Van Rooij, E. C. M.; Canrinus, E. T. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
This study focused on the question of how to enhance a mastery-goal orientation in the classroom. We started from the perspective of the achievement goal theory, which assumes that the goals that students have (personal goals) relate to the goals that are set in the classroom (classroom goal structures). In classrooms where teachers focus on…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Goal Orientation, Educational Objectives, Student Educational Objectives
van der Veen, Ineke; Peetsma, Thea – Educational Psychology, 2020
This study examined the development in motivation for school in students in senior secondary vocational education and factors related to this development. There have been many concerns about a decline in motivation after school transitions. Little about this subject is known in relation to the transition to senior secondary vocational education.…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Secondary School Students, Late Adolescents, Vocational Education
Korpershoek, Hanke; Kuyper, Hans; van der Werf, Greetje – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2015
In this study, we investigated the school motivation of 7,257 9th grade students in 80 secondary schools across the Netherlands. Using a multiple goal perspective, four motivation dimensions were included: performance, mastery, extrinsic, and social motivation. Our first aim was to identify distinct motivation profiles within our sample, using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Secondary School Students, Performance
Scheltinga, Peter A. M.; Kuyper, Hans; Timmermans, Anneke C.; van der Werf, Greetje P. C. – Educational Psychology, 2016
The dominant achievement goals (DAGs) of 7,008 students in the third grade of Dutch secondary education (US grade 9) were investigated, based on Elliot & McGregors' 2 × 2 framework (2001), in relation to track-level and motivational variables. We found the mastery-approach goal and the performance-approach goal, generally considered adaptive,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Scores, Mastery Learning
