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The Boy Paradox: Exploring Motivational Factors in Gender Differences and Academic Achievement across Ages 9-14 Years
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Ingela Stenberg; Marcus Sundgren; Göran Bostedt – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2025
This study investigates how gender and school year influence students' perceptions of the learning environment in Swedish compulsory schools. Using the adapted patterns of adaptive learning scales (PALS) questionnaire, this research examined 831 students from years 3, 6 and 8 (ages 9-14). Data were analysed using principal component analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Grade 6, Grade 8
The Role of Self-Efficacy in the Relationship between the Learning Environment and Student Engagement
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Sökmen, Yavuz – Educational Studies, 2021
This study investigated middle school students' behavioural, emotional, cognitive, and agentic engagement in science in relation to self-efficacy and learning environment variables. Learning environment variables addressed in the study were shared control, student negotiation, promoting mutual respect, and teacher feedback. Participants of the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Educational Environment, Learner Engagement, Middle School Students
The Role of Goal Structures and Peer Climate in Trajectories of Social Achievement Goals during High School
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Makara, Kara A.; Madjar, Nir – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Students' social goals--reasons for engaging in interpersonal relationships with peers-are consequential for students' interactions with their peers at school and for their well-being. Despite the salience of peer relationships during adolescence, research on social goals is generally lacking compared with academic goals, and it is unknown how…
Descriptors: High School Students, Peer Relationship, Goal Orientation, Predictor Variables
Achievement Goals and Achievement during Early Adolescence: Examining Time-Varying Predictor and Outcome Variables in Growth-Curve Analysis
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Shim, S. Serena; Ryan, Allison M.; Anderson, Carolyn J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
The present study advances understanding of (a) the development of achievement goals, (b) the changing association of achievement goals and achievement over time, and (c) the implications of changes in achievement goals for changes in achievement over time. African American and European American adolescents' (N = 588) achievement goals and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Adolescents, Predictor Variables, Motivation