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Academic Buoyancy in Secondary School: Exploring Patterns of Convergence in English, Mathematics, Science, and Physical Education
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Malmberg, Lars-Erik; Hall, James; Martin, Andrew J. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
Past research into the ability of students to "bounce back" from everyday academic setback (academic buoyancy) has lacked sensitivity to the contexts in which children demonstrate this behavior. Here we aimed to contextualize past findings by reporting the results of an exploratory investigation that featured: (1) repeated measurement of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Achievement, Physical Education, Secondary School Students
Development and Validation of the Relationship and Motivation (REMO) Scale to Assess Students' Perceptions of Peers and Teachers as Motivators in Adolescence
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Raufelder, Diana; Drury, Kate; Jagenow, Danilo; Hoferichter, Frances; Bukowski, William – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
Factor analyses of a newly developed measure designed to measure early adolescents' perceptions of peers and teachers as sources of scholastic motivation were conducted with a diverse sample of 7th and 8th grade students (N = 1088) in secondary schools. The Relationship and Motivation (REMO) scales measure perceptions of peers (P-REMO) and…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Grade 7
Dangerous Mindsets: How Beliefs about Intelligence Predict Motivational Change
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Haimovitz, Kyla; Wormington, Stephanie V.; Corpus, Jennifer Henderlong – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The present study examined how beliefs about intelligence, as mediated by ability-validation goals, predicted whether students lost or maintained levels of intrinsic motivation over the course of a single academic year. 978 third- through eighth-grade students were surveyed in the fall about their theories concerning the malleability of…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Student Motivation, Academic Ability, Beliefs
Measuring Students' Emotions in the Early Years: The Achievement Emotions Questionnaire-Elementary School (AEQ-ES)
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Lichtenfeld, Stephanie; Pekrun, Reinhard; Stupnisky, Robert H.; Reiss, Kristina; Murayama, Kou – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
This article reports about the development and validation of a measurement instrument assessing elementary school students' achievement emotions (Achievement Emotions Questionnaire-Elementary School, AEQ-ES). Specifically, the instrument assesses students' enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom pertaining to three types of academic settings (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Homework, Academic Achievement
Self-Confidence and Performance Goal Orientation Interactively Predict Performance in a Reasoning Test with Accuracy Feedback
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Beckmann, Nadin; Beckmann, Jens F.; Elliott, Julian G. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
This study takes an individual differences' perspective on performance feedback effects in psychometric testing. A total of 105 students in a mainstream secondary school in North East England undertook a cognitive ability test on two occasions. In one condition, students received item-specific accuracy feedback while in the other (standard…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Psychological Testing, Goal Orientation
Beliefs and Perceptions about the Future: A Measurement of Future Time Perspective
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Husman, Jenefer; Shell, Duane F. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
Human's ability to consider the future, willingness to make sacrifices in the present to obtain something better in the future has been a significant part of our success as a species (Suddendorf, T., & Corballis, M. C. (1997). "Mental time travel and the evolution of the human mind." "Genetic, social, and general psychology monographs" 123,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Psychology, Time Perspective, Educational Researchers