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Dirk Tempelaar – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Background: For over a decade, growth-oriented achievement goal constructs like potential-based goals and personal best goals have remained relatively unnoticed. This empirical study aims to highlight that goal theorists might be limiting themselves by not incorporating potential-based goals into their frameworks. Aims: The primary objective of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Student Development
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Baten, Elke; Desoete, Annemie – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2021
The role of motivation, temperament, personality and well-being as predicting propensity factors for mathematical abilities was investigated in 30 adults. By embedding these predictors in the Opportunity-Propensity framework, this study aimed to reveal their unique contribution in math development, which is important to improve mathematics…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Mathematics Education, Educational Improvement, Accuracy
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Opdenakker, Marie-Christine; Maulana, Ridwan; den Brok, Perry – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2012
The present study explored the developmental changes of teacher-student interpersonal relationships as well as that of academic motivation among first-grade secondary school students. In addition, the link between teacher-student interpersonal behaviour and academic motivation across the school year was investigated. The data were collected 5…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Nonverbal Communication, High School Freshmen
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El, Ron Pat; Tillema, Harm; van Koppen, Sabine W. M. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
In this study we investigate the influence of ethnic differences on student motivation when learning from formative feedback. Interpersonal teacher behavior and student motivational needs are used to explain the effects of assessment for learning on intrinsic motivation by comparing students from different ethnic backgrounds. The final study's…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Behavior, Structural Equation Models, Student Motivation
2001
This document contains four papers on organizational enhancement and human resource development (HRD). "Motivation to Improve Work through Learning in Human Resource Development" (Sharon S. Naquin, Elwood F. Holton III) argues that HRD's traditional conceptualization of motivation should be expanded to incorporate motivation to use…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Educational Attitudes, Employee Absenteeism, Employee Attitudes
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers