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Renz Louis T. Montano – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2024
Objective: Existing research demonstrates that being mastery oriented is associated with several academic outcomes such as better engagement and achievement. To date, however, there is a dearth of research evidence on the emotional payoffs of mastery orientation. The current study explored the link between mastery orientation, subjective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mastery Learning, Orientation
Yong-Hwee Nah; Rachel Li-En Ng – School Mental Health, 2025
This study explored factors associated with teachers' self-efficacy beliefs in delivering a Tier 2 Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT)-based programme. Participants consisted of 103 teachers (mean age = 38.0 years, SD = 9.63) currently teaching in Singapore mainstream schools. Survey data on self-efficacy beliefs for teaching in general, teachers'…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification
Jianzhong Xu – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
The present study investigated multilevel models posited to predict student approaches to homework. Participants were 1,072 middle school students in China. Results revealed that deep and surface approaches were positively associated with performance-approach. Furthermore, deep approach to homework was associated negatively with homework cost, yet…
Descriptors: Homework, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Predictor Variables, Middle School Students
Rining Wei; Barry Lee Reynolds; Mengxia Kong; Zhixin Liu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Psychological variables remain a much under-investigated sub-category of individual differences (IDs) compared with cognitive ones. The present paper aims to gain a better understanding of the psychological effects of bilingualism by investigating national identity (NI), a socio-psychological construct, based on big data, that has rarely been…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Nationalism, Self Concept, Psychological Patterns
Harri Pitkäniemi; Riikka Hirvonen; Johanna Heikka; Katja Suhonen – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The aim of the study is to comprehensively analyze the interrelationships between teacher efficacy, the sources of self-efficacy, and implementation of early childhood education (ECE). The assumption is that according to socio-cognitive theory, source categories predict the self-efficacy of educational staff. According to a few previous research…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers
Wang, Jing; Bai, Barry; Nie, Youyan – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study examined the role of perceived classroom goal structures and parent's goals in predicting students' achievement goals, engagement and achievement. Mastery goals were predicted by both classroom and parents' mastery goals. Both performance-approach goals and performance-avoidance goals were predicted by both classroom and parents'…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Academic Achievement
Guo, Meng; Hu, Xiang – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
This study examines the relationship between classroom goal structures, student goal orientations, and mathematics achievement in China and compare the pattern of relationship between Chinese Miao and Han students. Data on 532 Chinese students (including 211 Han and 321 Miao students) were analyzed using structural equation models. The results of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation, Ethnic Groups, Mathematics Achievement
Ekaterina Tskhovrebova; Sandrine Zufferey; Elena Tribushinina – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
Connectives such as "because" and "but" are crucial for signaling coherence relations in discourse. They contribute to a better reading comprehension and, thus, academic performance. The aim of this article is to contribute to our understanding of connective development during teenage years by studying individual differences in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Printed Materials, Predictor Variables, Mastery Learning
Lan, Shi; Cheng, Eric C. K. – Curriculum and Teaching, 2021
This paper discusses the constructs of students' metacognitive competencies and its effect on mastery of learning strategies and enhancing learning outcomes in the context of high school in Shanghai, China, where Learning to Learn curriculum has been implemented for years. 780 students from three types of typical high schools in Shanghai…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Competence, Mastery Learning, Learning Strategies
Guo, Meng; Leung, Frederick K. S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
This study compared the relationships between the goal orientations, learning strategies, and mathematics achievement of Chinese Miao and Han students. A total of 211 Han and 321 Miao fifth- and sixth-grade students from Qiandongnan participated in the study. The results suggest that, in both samples, mastery orientation positively predicted the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Correlation, Goal Orientation
Cassidy, Tony; McLaughlin, Marian; McDowell, Eimear – Journal of Education, 2022
Intergenerational transmission of disadvantage remains a problem despite political and educational initiatives. This study explored the role of personality and psychosocial factors in occupational status in a survey of 383 participants (174 males and 209 females) over 39 years from age 16 to 55. Mother's education, extraversion, and mastery…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Socioeconomic Status, Parent Education
Sunawan; Sugiyo; Pranoto, Yuli Kurniawati Sugiyo – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2021
Purpose: Achievement emotions have been shown to mediate the association between achievement goals and learning performance, but no research to date has tested whether there is a similar process in predicting germane cognitive load. Based on the control-value theory of academic emotions (Pekrun, 2006), the present study tested a model to determine…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning, Student Motivation
Özcan, Bahadir; Kültür, Yusuf Ziya – SAGE Open, 2021
In school settings, sources of self-efficacy have the potential to directly and indirectly influence performance. The problem of this study is the direct relationship between sources of self-efficacy and achievement. In connection with this problem, the impact of sources of mathematics self-efficacy on high school senior students' mathematics test…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Self Efficacy, Predictor Variables
Fokkens-Bruinsma, M.; Van Rooij, E. C. M.; Canrinus, E. T. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
This study focused on the question of how to enhance a mastery-goal orientation in the classroom. We started from the perspective of the achievement goal theory, which assumes that the goals that students have (personal goals) relate to the goals that are set in the classroom (classroom goal structures). In classrooms where teachers focus on…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Goal Orientation, Educational Objectives, Student Educational Objectives
Sangkawetai, Cheeraporn; Neanchaleay, Jariya; Koul, Ravinder; Murphy, Elizabeth – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2020
The goal of this study is to identify the relationship between K-12 teachers' self-efficacy beliefs, classroom goal structure and use of instructional strategies. The study also aims to determine if there is variance in the relationship between these constructs for primary versus secondary school teachers. Data collection involved completion of a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Self Efficacy, Teaching Methods