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Gorges, Julia – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Self-concepts of ability (SCA) and intrinsic task values (ITV) are key determinants of students' choice of study program and dropout. Both constructs are multidimensional (i.e., specific to curricular learning content) and hierarchically structured (i.e., aggregate into one or more higher-order factors). The present study investigated German…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Dropouts, Business Administration Education, Longitudinal Studies
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Dumont, Hanna; Trautwein, Ulrich; Nagy, Gabriel; Nagengast, Benjamin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
This study examined predictors of the quality of parental homework involvement and reciprocal relations between the quality of parental homework involvement and students' reading achievement and academic functioning in a reading-intensive subject (German). Data from 2,830 students in nonacademic tracks and their parents who were surveyed in both…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Homework, Predictor Variables, Reading Achievement
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Ebert, Susanne – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
This study investigated the longitudinal relation between children's theory of mind and their metacognitive knowledge with a special focus on the impact of language on this relation. Measures of theory-of-mind understanding and metamemory knowledge were assessed in 133 3-year-old children at 4 measurement points separated by half-year intervals.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Theory of Mind, Language Acquisition, Nonverbal Ability
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Gniewosz, Burkhard; Noack, Peter – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
The present study investigates the intergenerational transmission of academic task values within family in early adolescence. Social learning processes are assumed to operate through the students' perceptions of their parents' values. The major goal of this study is to show that this values transmission is facilitated by between-parent value…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Early Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Learning Processes
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Spinath, Birgit; Steinmayr, Ricarda – Child Development, 2008
The present study explored whether competence beliefs and intrinsic motivation for different school domains show reciprocal effects over time. A sample of 670 German elementary school pupils (M= 8.8 years, SD= 0.51) was followed over 1 year. At 4 measurement occasions, children completed self-reports on their intrinsic motivation and competence…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Student Motivation, Longitudinal Studies, Beliefs
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Koller, Olaf – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2004
Longitudinal data (five waves) from large cohorts of 7th grade students in East Germany ("n"=2,119) and West Germany ("n"=1,928) were collected from the start of the reunification of the school systems following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here we integrate the two major theoretical models of relations between academic…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 7