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Language Skills, Mathematical Thinking, and Achievement Motivation in Children with ADHD, Disruptive Behavior Disorders, and Normal Controls
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Gut, Janine; Heckmann, Carmen; Meyer, Christine Sandra; Schmid, Marc; Grob, Alexander – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
Recent models of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) suggest that the association between achievement motivation and school performance may be stronger in children with ADHD than in typically developing children. Therefore, the present study investigated associations between achievement motivation and performance on language skills and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Control Groups, Behavior Disorders, Achievement Need
Individual and Longitudinal Differences among High and Low-Achieving, LD, and ADHD L2 Learners
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Sparks, Richard L.; Humbach, Nancy; Javorsky, James – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
High-achieving (HA) and low-achieving (LA), learning disabled (LD), and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) high school students were followed over two years of L2 study and compared on measures of L1 literacy (reading and writing) in elementary school, L1 cognitive ability, L2 aptitude, oral and written L2 proficiency, and L2 word…
Descriptors: Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Cognitive Ability, Longitudinal Studies
Understanding Strategies in Foreign Language Learning: Are Integrative and Intrinsic Motives Distinct Predictors?
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Bonney, Christina Rhee; Cortina, Kai S.; Smith-Darden, Joanne P.; Fiori, Katherine L. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
This study examines the relation between the motivational structure and use of learning strategies of high school foreign language students. Students in 36 foreign language classrooms (French, German, Latin, and Spanish; first- through fifth-years) from a large Midwestern high school participated in the study (N=694). As predicted, correlation and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation
Does Homework Behavior Mediate the Relation between Personality and Academic Performance?
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Lubbers, Miranda J.; Van Der Werf, Margaretha P. C.; Kuyper, Hans; Hendriks, A. A. Jolijn – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
Past research has consistently shown that there is a relation between personality and academic performance, but much less work has focused on explaining this relation. The present study examined whether three aspects of homework behavior, namely homework time, procrastination, and learning strategies, mediate the relation between personality and…
Descriptors: Homework, Personality Traits, Age, Student Attitudes