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Assor, Avi; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Kaplan, Avi – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
On the basis of self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000), the authors examined whether 2 different types of introjected motivation--an avoidant type aimed at avoiding low self-worth and an approach type aimed at attaining high self-worth--are both associated with a less positive pattern of correlates relative to identified…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, Athletics, Self Determination
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Leong, Che Kan; Tse, Shek Kam; Loh, Ka Yee; Hau, Kit Tai – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
The present study examined the role of verbal working memory (memory span, tongue twister), 2-character Chinese pseudoword reading, rapid automatized naming (letters, numbers), and phonological segmentation (deletion of rimes and onsets) in inferential text comprehension in Chinese in 518 Chinese children in Hong Kong in Grades 3 to 5. It was…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Structural Equation Models, Memory, Foreign Countries
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Griffiths, Yvonne M.; Snowling, Margaret J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2002
Multiple regression methods were used to examine continuous variation in component reading subskills and their underlying cognitive skills within a group of 9 to 15-year-old children. Results are discussed within a connectionist framework that views the decoding deficit in dyslexia as stemming from poorly specified phonological representations.…
Descriptors: Children, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia, Multiple Regression Analysis