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Tess A. Shirefley – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Situated Expectancy Value Theory (SEVT) emphasizes the role parents play in shaping children's confidence and value they place on science. Although a robust literature has documented parental influences on children's science motivations in school-based contexts, less is known about how parents' attitudes and support shape children's science…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Parent Influence, Student Motivation, Parent Attitudes
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Acar Güvendir, Meltem – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2016
This study focused on the extrinsic and intrinsic motivation levels of eighth grade students and its relationship with their mathematical achievement. The participants of the study included 6,829 students who took TIMSS in 2011 and 239 mathematics teachers. The data obtained from the student and teacher questionnaires that are included in the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Student Motivation, Locus of Control, Grade 8
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Haladyna, Tom; Shaughnessy, Joan – Science Education, 1982
Results from meta-analysis of studies on student attitudes toward science are discussed. Includes description of meta-analysis techniques, discussion of attitudes toward science (with a proposed definition), a theoretical framework for studying attitudes which provides a structure for synthesis studies, and recommendations, including those related…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, College Science, Elementary School Science