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Gottfried, Adele Eskeles; Marcoulides, George A.; Gottfried, Allen W.; Oliver, Pamella H.; Guerin, Diana Wright – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
Research has established that academic intrinsic motivation, enjoyment of school learning without receipt of external rewards, significantly declines across childhood through adolescence. Math intrinsic motivation evidences the most severe decline compared with other subject areas. This study addresses this developmental decline in math intrinsic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Children, Adolescents, Learning Motivation
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Lutkenhaus, Paul – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
Explores, in two independent replications one year apart, the possiblility that (a) the actions of three-year-old children are guided and accompanied by self-evaluations and withdrawal, (b) that self-evaluations and withdrawal have a motivational function for persistence, and (c) that they are influenced by the mother's behavior when interacting…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Learning Motivation, Mastery Learning, Motivation