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Direct linkGriffin, Tiffany Monique; Chavous, Tabbye; Cogburn, Courtney; Branch, LaToya; Sellers, Robert – Journal of Black Psychology, 2012
Drawing from existing literature, the authors conceptualized a two-dimensional framework of African American students' academic contingencies of self-worth. The results from exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses with a sample of African American college freshmen (N = 330) supported this prediction. Self-Worth Dependent academic…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), African American Students, College Freshmen, Race
Solheim, Oddny Judith – Reading Psychology, 2011
It has been hypothesized that students with low self-efficacy will struggle with complex reading tasks in assessment situations. In this study we examined whether perceived reading self-efficacy and reading task value uniquely predicted reading comprehension scores in two different item formats in a sample of fifth-grade students. Results showed…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Self Efficacy, Multiple Regression Analysis
Gonzalez-Moreno, Patricia Adelaida – Music Education Research, 2012
Despite the increasing number of students in music education graduate programmes, attrition rates suggest a lack of success in retaining and assisting them to the completion of their degree. Based on the expectancy-value theory, the aim of this study was to examine students' motivations (values and competence beliefs) and their complex interaction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Graduate Study, Distance Education
Sturtevant, Elizabeth G.; Kim, Grace S. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
This study examined literacy motivation among middle-school students in English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) classes by using a 20-question survey and semi-structured interview. The survey results identified similarities among students of different genders, but differences between the beginning ESOL group and the more advanced groups,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Interviews, Multiple Regression Analysis, Literacy
Wilson, Jacqueline I. – Issues in Educational Research, 2009
This study explores what motivates a student to enter medical school by first measuring students' strength of motivation and then by looking for relationships between motivation and career-related values and approaches to learning. Validated and reliable questionnaires were used to obtain data. This study found no differences in strength of…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Social Status, Medical Schools, Self Esteem
Olani, Aboma – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2009
Introduction: Premature withdrawal from university due to academic failure can present problems for students, families and educators. In an effort to widen the understanding regarding factors predicting academic success in higher institutions, prior academic achievement measures (preparatory school grade average point (GPA), aptitude test scores,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Withdrawal (Education), Grade Point Average
Braten, Ivar; Samuelstuen, Marit S.; Stromso, Helge I. – Educational Psychology, 2004
We examined whether perceived self-efficacy moderated the relationship between performance goals and self-regulatory strategy use in two different samples of 178 and 108 Norwegian post-secondary students. Using multiple regression with interaction terms, we found that perceived self-efficacy moderated the relation between performance-avoidance…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies
Kang, Sukjin; Scharmann, Lawrence C.; Noh, Taehee; Koh, Hanjoong – International Journal of Science Education, 2005
In this study, the relationships among students' cognitive/motivational variables, cognitive conflict, and conceptual change were investigated. Subjects were 159 seventh graders in Korea. Tests regarding logical thinking ability, field dependence/independence (FDI), meaningful learning approach, failure tolerance, mastery goal orientation, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Teaching Methods, Logical Thinking
Winter, Neal – International Journal of Music Education, 2004
In order to evaluate the effects of an integrated curriculum on the learning of popular music, the Sting Curriculum was designed for senior secondary students of mixed ability. This nine-week program was presented to a sample of students aged between 16 and 18 years in urban Sydney (Australia). This article draws on some of the results from this…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Music Education, Music, Sequential Approach
