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Who Do Students Ask for Help with Classwork? Sources of Help and Changes in Help-Seeking from Peers during Early Adolescence
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Kilday, Jessica E.; Ryan, Allison M. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
This study used peer nominations to identify who students ask for help in class. We describe the level of friendship affiliation that students' share with their peer helpers, and their classroom behavior reputations. Participants were 1037 fifth (49%) and sixth (51%) graders with varied gender and ethnic-racial backgrounds (51% girls; 43% White,…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Student Behavior, Peer Relationship, Friendship
Help-Seeking Tendencies during Early Adolescence: An Examination of Motivational Correlates and Consequences for Achievement
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Ryan, Allison M.; Shin, Huiyoung – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The present study examined the motivational correlates and achievement consequences of students' help-seeking tendencies during sixth grade (N = 217). Students' grades were collected from school records at the beginning and end of the school year. Midway through the year students reported on their academic self-efficacy and social demonstration…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Grades (Scholastic), Self Efficacy, Early Adolescents
Changes in Help Seeking from Peers during Early Adolescence: Associations with Changes in Achievement and Perceptions of Teachers
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Ryan, Allison M.; Shim, Sungok Serena – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Students' academic help seeking from peers was examined at 6-month intervals for 3 time points spanning the transition from elementary school to middle school (N = 655; 53.6% girls, 46.4% boys; 53.9% African American, 46.1% European American). Adaptive help seeking from peers declined over time, whereas expedient help seeking from peers increased.…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Early Adolescents, Correlation, Academic Achievement
Differential Profiles of Students Identified by Their Teacher as Having Avoidant, Appropriate, or Dependent Help-Seeking Tendencies in the Classroom
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Ryan, Allison M.; Patrick, Helen; Shim, Sung-Ok – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
In Study 1, teachers identified 6th-grade students (N = 844) as having 1 of 3 help-seeking behavioral tendencies in the classroom: avoidant, appropriate, or dependent. More students were identified as having appropriate (65%) than avoidant (22%) or dependent (13%) help-seeking tendencies. Student self-reports of help avoidance were in line with…
Descriptors: Profiles, Grade 6, Help Seeking, Student Behavior
Why Do Some Students Avoid Asking for Help? An Examination of the Interplay among Students' Academic Efficacy, Teachers' Social-Emotional Role, and the Classroom Goal Structure.
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Ryan, Allison M.; Gheen, Margaret H.; Midgley, Carol – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1998
Through hierarchical linear modeling, student reports of the avoidance of help seeking were related to student and classroom characteristics of 516 sixth graders. Avoidance of help seeking was related negatively to academic efficacy, but was less strongly related to academic efficacy in classrooms where teachers thought they should tend to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Help Seeking
"Should I Ask for Help?" The Role of Motivation and Attitudes in Adolescents' Help Seeking in Math Class.
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Ryan, Allison M.; Pintrich, Paul R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1997
Motivational influences on help-seeking behavior in mathematics were studied with 203 seventh and eighth graders. Perceived benefits and threats were important influences on avoidance of help-seeking behavior, but only benefits predicted adaptive help seeking. Social competence had an indirect effect on avoidance of help seeking. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Grade 7