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Helen M. G. Watt; Nir Madjar; Liam Dacosta – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Our study examined how students' perceived teacher beliefs and classroom goal structures, gender (of teachers and students) and own perceived talent, controlling for prior achievements, together explained motivational outcomes of students' achievement goals, intrinsic value and enrollment choices in mathematics and English. Participants were 1086…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Enrollment, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Zhang, Heyating; Chen, Xin; Zhang, Baoshan; Kelley, Grant W. – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
In the current study, we examined the relationship between math-gender stereotypes, academic burnout, achievement goal orientation, and self-handicapping in Chinese adolescent students. The data came from 1170 participants (552 boys and 618 girls) from four secondary schools and was analyzed with structural equation models. The results showed that…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Goal Orientation, Secondary School Students, Burnout
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Schweder, Sabine; Raufelder, Diana; Wulff, Tino – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2022
Fostering adolescents' self-efficacy and positive emotions through learning contexts which induce beneficial achievement goals can prevent motivational decline in adolescents. Achievement goal theory states that the learning context and gender moderate the interplay of self-efficacy, emotions, and achievement goals. This study compared female and…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Self Efficacy, Psychological Patterns, Student Motivation
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Kiki Juli Anggoro; Annisa Laura Maretha – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2025
This study examines Thai university students' perceptions of Interactive Response Systems (IRSs) in fully online English instruction, addressing the limited research on their use in virtual classrooms. A mixed-method approach, involving surveys and interviews with 289 participants, revealed generally positive perceptions of IRSs as tools that…
Descriptors: Online Courses, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Ersie-Anastasia Gentzis; Dante D. Dixson – School Psychology Review, 2024
The research literature indicates that school climate is important for student outcomes; however, research assessing school climate and achievement-related outcomes across time is limited. In this study, the relationship between school climate, students' psychosocial perceptions, and student achievement was examined across an academic school year…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Attitudes
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Correia-Harker, Benjamin P.; Dugan, John P. – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
Theorists position leadership capacity, leadership self-efficacy, and leadership motivation as central constructs in the leadership development process (Chan & Drasgow, 2001; Dugan, 2017). Although researchers have explored distinct connections between psychological constructs of leadership capacity and leadership self-efficacy, less attention…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Student Leadership, College Students, Self Efficacy
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2023
Women represent a key demographic in the global workforce and are increasingly seeking advanced degrees to further their careers. However, many barriers and challenges still exist in attracting and retaining prospective female students in graduate management education (GME) programs. This research brief takes a closer look at the perspectives of…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Administrator Education, Women Administrators, Womens Education
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Suralaga, Fadhilah; Azkiyah, Siti Nurul; Dhowi, Bay; Nisa, Yunita Faela; Rahmawati, Yenny – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
Previous research has explored possible reasons to conduct academic dishonesty while there are only a few research studies that investigate the strategies to promote academic integrity and do not look at moral self-regulation as a mediating variable. This study, therefore, aims to examine whether moral self-regulation mediates the effects of…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Ethics, Integrity, Cheating
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Schwinger, Malte; Trautner, Maike; Pütz, Nadine; Fabianek, Salome; Lemmer, Gunnar; Lauermann, Fani; Wirthwein, Linda – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Self-handicapping is a maladaptive strategy that students employ to protect their self-image when they fear or anticipate academic failure. Instead of increasing their effort, students may harm their chances of success by procrastinating, strategically withdrawing effort, or engaging in destructive behaviors like drug abuse, so that potential…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Self Destructive Behavior, Time Management, Withdrawal (Psychology)
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Guan, Jianmin; Xiang, Ping; Keating, Xiaofen D.; Land, William M. – European Physical Education Review, 2020
This study utilized a 2 × 2 achievement goal model to explore a relationship between achievement goals and social goals, and how these goals are associated with junior high school students' self-reported persistence toward physical activities. A total of 246 students from four junior high schools participated in the study. The results revealed…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Academic Persistence
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Robinson, Dwan; Suhr, Julie; Buelow, Melissa; Beasley, Catrina – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
The goal of the present study was to examine factors associated with academic self-handicapping in Black students attending a predominantly white university. Factors examined included sociodemographic factors (gender, first-generation college student status); psychological factors (family support, perceived discrimination, Black identity); and…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Self Control, African American Students, College Students
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Burns, Emma C.; Martin, Andrew J.; Evans, Paul A. – Educational Psychology, 2021
Teacher feedback in mathematics is a potential strategy for redressing declining international trends in high school mathematics achievement. Effective feedback comprises corrective information (feedback) and guidance for improvement (feedforward)--referred to herein as 'feedback-feedforward'. Relatively little research has examined the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Goal Orientation, Mathematics Achievement, High School Students
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Erdogan, Barbaros Serdar; Baykose, Nazmi – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2021
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between affect and achievement-goal orientations of sports science faculty students. Participants forming the research group are studying at the faculty of sports sciences at Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, and in terms of gender, the research group consists of a total of 487 students, 272 males…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Patterns, Achievement Need, Goal Orientation
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Fokkens-Bruinsma, M.; Van Rooij, E. C. M.; Canrinus, E. T. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
This study focused on the question of how to enhance a mastery-goal orientation in the classroom. We started from the perspective of the achievement goal theory, which assumes that the goals that students have (personal goals) relate to the goals that are set in the classroom (classroom goal structures). In classrooms where teachers focus on…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Goal Orientation, Educational Objectives, Student Educational Objectives
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Bardach, Lisa; Yanagida, Takuya; Lüftenegger, Marko – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2020
The present article focuses on classroom climate effects in the context of multi-level structural equation modelling. We first discuss the need to appropriately model classroom climate as a classroom-level construct. We then analyse the effects of classroom climate (academic goal structures and social goal structures) on students' motivation in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Structural Equation Models, Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning
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