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Does Self-Efficacy Contribute to the Development of Students' Motivation across the Transition from Secondary to Higher Education?
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Kyndt, Eva; Donche, Vincent; Coertjens, Liesje; van Daal, Tine; Gijbels, David; Van Petegem, Peter – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2019
The transition from secondary to higher education is a challenging process, in which the development of students' motivation plays a pivotal role. The current study examines whether self-efficacy--and how it develops--is able to explain the growth in motivation. The current longitudinal study included five waves, across a period of 25 months (i.e.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Longitudinal Studies, Self Determination
Time Perspective and Identity Formation: Short-Term Longitudinal Dynamics in College Students
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Luyckx, Koen; Lens, Willy; Smits, Ilse; Goossens, Luc – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
Planning for the future and developing a personalized identity are conceived of as important developmental tasks that adolescents and emerging adults are confronted with on the pathway to adulthood. The present study set out to examine whether both tasks develop in tandem by using a short-term longitudinal dataset consisting of 371 college…
Descriptors: College Students, Structural Equation Models, Time Perspective, Cognitive Processes
A Preliminary Report of the Relationship Between Piaget's and Klausmeier's Measures of Children's Cognitive Development. Technical Report No. 426. Reprinted December 1977.
Klausmeier, Herbert J.; And Others – 1976
Piaget's model of children's conceptual learning and development was compared with Klausmeier's Conceptual Learning and Development (CLD) model in a longitudinal study. The CLD model suggests four successive levels of concept learning: (1) concrete--recognizing an object which has been encountered previously; (2) identity--recognizing a known…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement