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Simpkins, Sandra D.; Liu, Yangyang; Hsieh, Ta-Yang; Estrella, Gabriel – Educational Psychology, 2020
High school underrepresented minority students in the US are at an increased risk of dropping out of the STEM pipeline. Based on expectancy-value theory, we examined if Latino students' perception of support from parents, siblings/cousins, teachers, and friends in 10th grade predicted their science ability self-concepts and values, which in turn…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Scientific Attitudes, Learning Motivation
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Shin, Youngjoon; Seo, Hae-Ae; Hong, Jun-Euy – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2019
This research aimed to develop an assessment tool for students' Positive Experiences about Science (PES). A preliminary version of PSE was developed through literature review, consisting of academic emotion, self-concept, learning motivation, career aspiration, and attitude in science. A pilot test was conducted with 198 students and a main test…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Student Experience, Science Education, Evaluation Methods
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Kim, Yoon-Kyoun; Kim, Tae-Young – English Teaching, 2018
This study examined the characteristics of male high school English learners' motivation and the relations between their motivation and achievement in English learning. A total of 334 Grade 10 students in a boys' high school participated in this study by completing a questionnaire survey on second language (L2) learning motivation and taking an…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Males