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Alivernini, Fabio; Manganelli, Sara; Lucidi, Fabio – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
This study examines the factor structures of Personal and Classroom Achievement Goals and the relationships between them. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to examine data from a sample of 3,544 Italian 10th-grade students (184 classrooms) who completed the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS). Findings about the factor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning, Immigrants
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Rosario, Carrie; Modeste, Naomi; Dos Santos, Hildemar; Handysides, Daniel; Gamboa-Maldonado, Thelma; Boyd, Kendal – Journal of American College Health, 2017
Objective: Health literacy is a determinant of health, but disparities in health literacy persist. This study examined the influence of ecological factors on college students' health literacy. Participants: During January 2016 a nonrandom sample of black undergraduate students (n = 298) aged 18-24 were recruited from enrollment lists at two urban…
Descriptors: Health, Literacy, African American Students, Smoking
Emmanuel Adu-tutu Bofah; Markku S. Hannula – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
In this study, we provide a detailed account of processes involved in applying structural equation modelling to validate a survey instrument -- the students' view of mathematics instrument -- in a new cultural setting. First, we tested the factorial validity of the instruments in Ghana for 12th-grade students (N = 2034, M = 18.49, standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 12, Mathematics Education, Student Attitudes
Gong, Xiaoyang – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Achievement emotions are critical for students' academic performance and career choices. The previous literature has focused on one specific type of achievement emotions--test anxiety--in Western contexts and neglected other various emotions experienced in different occasions such as attending classes. The present study aims to address the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Achievement, Grade 11, High School Students
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Li, Haibin – Educational Psychology, 2017
Given Chinese students often perform well academically despite the challenges of their competitive academic environments, it is important to explore what enables the academic resilience of these students. Moreover, because the extant resilience literature is biased towards Western accounts of resilience, it is crucial that non-Western perspectives…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competition, Student Records, Resilience (Psychology)
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Hong, Eunsook; Mason, Elsa; Peng, Yun; Lee, Nancy – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
Direct and mediating effects of homework worry anxiety on homework effort and homework achievement and the differences in the structural relations among homework motivation constructs and homework achievement across mathematics and English homework were examined in 268 tenth graders in China. Homework motivation included task value, homework…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Homework, Mathematics Achievement, English (Second Language)
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Ainley, Mary; Ainley, John – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
In this paper, we examine the nature of interest in science as represented in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006 data. We discuss the interconnections between measures of knowledge, affect, and value as components of interest in science. Working from a perspective acknowledging that many of the models of motivation…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Student Attitudes, Student Interests, Science Interests
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Marcoulides, George A.; Heck, Ronald H.; Papanastasiou, Constantinos – International Journal of Educational Management, 2005
Purpose: This study examined the generalizability of a previously validated model concerning how student perceptions of school culture affect student achievement. Design/methodology/approach: Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data were collected from 1,026 eighth-grade students in secondary schools on the island of Cyprus.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, School Culture, Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement