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Direct linkAffuso, Gaetana; Bacchini, Dario; Miranda, Maria Concetta – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The aim of this study was to examine the contribution of school-related parental monitoring (SR-PM), self-determined motivation, and academic self-efficacy to academic achievement across time. The authors hypothesized that SR-PM would affect academic achievement indirectly via its effects on self-determined motivation and academic self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Shih, Shu-Shen – Journal of Educational Research, 2009
The author examined how Taiwanese junior high students' perceptions of autonomy support from teachers and parents as well as autonomous and controlled motivations were related to their implicit theories of intelligence. The author also attempted to determine the ability of these constructs to explain students' reports of avoidance strategies…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation, Grade 8
Tan, Ivy Geok Chin; Sharan, Shlomo; Lee, Christine Kim Eng – Journal of Educational Research, 2007
In an experiment conducted in 7 eighth-grade (Ages 13-14) classes in Singapore, the authors evaluated the effects of the group investigation method of cooperative learning versus the effects of the traditional whole-class method of instruction on students' academic achievement and on their motivation to learn. The authors also investigated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Achievement, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewedAshbaugh, Jo-Ann; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1973
The present study was undertaken to investigate differences in high school performance scholastic aptitude, and achievement motivation between disadvantaged college students who persisted successfully for 2 years and those who discontinued their studies before completing 1 year at an urban commuter university. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Disadvantaged, Females
Peer reviewedFrymier, Jack R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1975
This study confirmed the hypothesis that the Junior Index of Motivation Scale successfully differentiates between college bound and noncollege bound junior high school students. (RC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, Learning Motivation, Overachievement
Peer reviewedDunham, Randall B. – Journal of Educational Research, 1973
The present study is the first phase of a longitudinal investigation designed to isolate non-intellective factors which might increase the power to predict academic success. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Correlation, Learning Motivation
Peer reviewedRusso, Thomas J.; Checketts, Keith T. – Journal of Educational Research, 1978
In a study of declining college entrance examination scores, it was found that student-related factors, such as academic courses taken, were more closely related to test scores than school-related or family structure factors. (ED.)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, College Freshmen, Educational Assessment
Peer reviewedHorn, Elizabeth A.; Walberg, Herbert J. – Journal of Educational Research, 1984
A National Assessment of Educational Progress study was conducted on students to assess the dependence of high school mathematics learning on the amount and level of course work as well as other productive factors. Achievement appears to depend on number and level of courses, traditional teaching methods, home environment, and ethnicity.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Course Content, Educational Research
