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Direct linkFrancesco Poli; Marlene Meyer; Rogier B. Mars; Sabine Hunnius – Child Development, 2025
Humans are driven by an intrinsic motivation to learn, but the developmental origins of curiosity-driven exploration remain unclear. We investigated the computational principles guiding 4-year-old children's exploration during a touchscreen game (N = 102, F = 49, M = 53, primarily white and middle-class, data collected in the Netherlands from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Learning Motivation, Discovery Learning
Tibken, Catharina; Richter, Tobias; von der Linden, Nicole; Schmiedeler, Sandra; Schneider, Wolfgang – Child Development, 2022
Gifted underachievers perform worse in school than would be expected based on their high intelligence. Possible causes for underachievement are low motivational dispositions (need for cognition) and metacognitive competences. This study tested the interplay of these variables longitudinally with gifted and non-gifted students from Germany…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Academically Gifted, Grade 6
Wang, Ming-Te; Binning, Kevin R.; Del Toro, Juan; Qin, Xu; Zepeda, Cristina D. – Child Development, 2021
Maintaining learning engagement throughout adolescence is critical for long-term academic success. This research sought to understand the role of metacognition and motivation in predicting adolescents' engagement in math learning over time. In two longitudinal studies with 2,325 and 207 adolescents (ages 11-15), metacognitive skills, interest, and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Metacognition, Longitudinal Studies, Self Control
Haimovitz, Kyla; Dweck, Carol S. – Child Development, 2017
Children's mindsets about intelligence (as a quality they can grow vs. a trait they cannot change) robustly influence their motivation and achievement. How do adults foster "growth mindsets" in children? One might assume that adults act in ways that communicate their own mindsets to children. However, new research shows that many parents…
Descriptors: Child Development, Intelligence, Learning Processes, Learning Motivation
Li, Jin – Child Development, 2006
This study examined goals and agency as the 2 core aspects of self in learning among Chinese adolescents. A sample of 259 adolescents aged 12--19 responded to open-ended probes about themselves. Counter to the common view that Chinese themselves are predominantly social, adolescents expressed many more individual than social goals and agency.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Late Adolescents, Early Adolescents, Self Concept
Peer reviewedPallak, Suzanne R.; And Others – Child Development, 1982
Suggests that, according to a study of children's responses to verbal and symbolic rewards, the nature of prior experience with rewards and reward contingency may affect the relative salience of information and controlling properties, thereby enhancing or undermining intrinsic motivation. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Experience, Elementary School Students, Learning Motivation
Fuligni, Andrew J.; Zhang, Wenxin – Child Development, 2004
A sense of obligation to support, assist, and respect the family was examined among approximately 700 urban and rural 10th- (M=16.6 years) and 12th- (M=18.9 years) grade students in the People's Republic of China. Urban male adolescents reported a weaker sense of family obligation than did rural male adolescents and both urban and rural female…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Family Relationship
