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Tamika L. McElveen – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Studies have primarily identified the positive associations between students' communal values and teachers' culturally relevant practice in separate investigations. The current study examined African American students' perceptions of their mathematics teachers' practice specifically related to the transmission of communal values, communal…
Descriptors: High School Students, African American Students, Mathematics Achievement, Social Values
Mehrdadian, Parisa; Rabiei, Mehdi; Khosrorad, Razieh – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
Introduction: Motivation is one of the most important effective factors in learning. It can lead to long-lasting learning in connection with identity. Creating an appropriate setting for development and actualization of students with different Scientific, social and cultural abilities is one of the accountable education package's The Health System…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Accountability, Medical Students, Learner Engagement
Zhou, Ji; Wang, Xinghua – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
The influence of achievement motives and relational goal structures embedded in schools on learning outcomes as well as their interaction has attracted much attention in educational research. In the secondary multi-level analysis of data from four areas of China (B-S-J-Z) and the United States in the PISA 2018 study, the relationship among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Nadon, Lindsey; Babenko, Oksana; Chazan, Devon; Daniels, Lia M. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2020
Students training for people-oriented careers, such as medicine and teaching, experience disproportionately high levels of burnout before entering the workforce. This is problematic because burnout is associated with negative outcomes such as unprofessionalism, low self-efficacy, and early career departure. The purpose of this research was to…
Descriptors: Burnout, Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Medical Students
Salvador-Ferrer, Carmen María – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: An ex post facto study was carried out to analyze the role of achievement motivation in emotional intelligence and students' life goals, specifically to determine whether emotional intelligence is a mediating variable between achievement motivation and life goals. Method: The study sample was formed by 311 university students, who…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Life Satisfaction, Emotional Intelligence
Nordin-Bates, Sanna M.; Kuylser, Sofia – Journal of Dance Education, 2021
This study provides the first in-depth investigation of how perfectionism is experienced in high-level dance. Seventy-seven students (M age = 15.52, SD = 2.30) completed a perfectionism questionnaire. Next, dancers with the highest and lowest levels of perfectionistic strivings (PS) and perfectionistic concerns (PC) were recruited for interview…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, High Achievement, Achievement Need, Dance Education
Hunsu, Nathaniel J.; Olaogun, Olarenwaju P.; Oje, Adurangba V.; Carnell, Peter H.; Morkos, Beshoy – Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Background: Student persistence in undergraduate engineering majors often depends on how they perform in foundational engineering courses. Although mastery of prerequisite knowledge affects how students perform in these courses, research suggests that achievement goal orientations and task-value and self-efficacy beliefs play prominent roles in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Majors (Students), Attendance Patterns
Karaman, Mehmet Akif – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2023
This study aimed to examine bullying, achievement motivation, and resilience levels of both Syrian refugee students and Turkish students at an Islamic religion-based high school for boys. The sample included 289 students. One hundred and forty-three (49.50%) of the participants were Syrian and 146 (50.50%) were Turkish students. The mean age of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement
Adrian Leis; Tetsushi Takemori; Keita Abe; Elisa Himori; Rei Suenaga; Kota Umino – Language Teaching Research, 2025
In this study, the authors investigated the attitudes of Japanese junior high school students towards studying English from the perspective of the Self-worth Theory. A total of 383 students aged 12 to 15 years participated in the qualitative study. Students were required to write three essays about how they would react under hypothetical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Huang, Changqin; Wu, Xuemei; Wang, Xizhe; He, Tao; Jiang, Fan; Yu, Jianhui – Educational Technology & Society, 2021
Collaborative reflection (co-reflection) plays a vital role in collaborative knowledge construction and behavior shared regulation. Although the mixed effect of online co-reflection was reported in the literature, few studies have comprehensively examined both individual and group factors and their relationships that affect the co-reflection…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Reflection, Objectives, Achievement Need
Krou, Megan R.; Fong, Carlton J.; Hoff, Meagan A. – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
Academic dishonesty is a rampant and troubling phenomenon in the educational sector. Although demographic factors have been linked with students' academic dishonesty in the literature, many of these aspects are difficult to change. However, students' motivation, a known malleable factor, may allow for opportunities to shape students' beliefs,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Student Behavior, Student Motivation, Achievement Need
Ayala Zadok; Pascale Benoliel; Chen Schechter – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Drawing upon trait-activation-theory, this study explores the moderating role of resource support in the relationship of middle-leaders' personality traits, namely extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness to collective teacher efficacy. The study used a two-source survey design with data from 609 participants: middle-leaders and teachers in…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Collectivism, Middle School Teachers, Self Efficacy
Aelenei, Cristina; Jury, Mickaël; Darnon, Céline; Sicard, Alyson; Maggio, Severine; Martinot, Delphine – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: We investigated the link between the endorsement of self-enhancement values (e.g., ambition, influence, authority and social power) and school achievement (i.e., grades). Aim: Adopting an intersectional framework, we argued that the link may be qualified by both students' gender and their parents' education level. We hypothesized that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Parent Child Relationship, Gender Differences, Educational Attainment
Wang, Huanhuan; Lehman, James D. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
Current online learning approaches are sometimes criticized for a "one-size-fits-all" approach and insufficient feedback, which may result in low levels of satisfaction and high dropout rates. To mitigate these shortcomings, we implemented a set of principles for designing personalized motivational feedback based on students' achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Individualized Instruction, Student Motivation
Cheryl Sosa – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to identify and explore how exemplary female superintendents who have achieved extraordinary results influence employees through personal motivation, personal ability, social motivation, social ability, structural motivation, and structural ability. Methodology: This phenomenological study…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Superintendents, Administrator Effectiveness, Positive Attitudes