Summary: This paper presents a motivational program that helps parents to teach their children realistic goal-setting, favorable causal attributions, and individual reference norms for self-evaluation. Thirty-two parents of third graders participated in a ...

Summary: A training study was conducted in order to explore whether the effectiveness of a metacognitive reading program may be increased by achievement motive modification exercises. Participants were 81 fifth graders who either were assigned to a ...

Summary: Sixty-six university students participated in a computer-based training program on motivational learning strategies. The program dealt with a strategy to generate a learning intention by identifying the personal (task) value of information which ...

Abstract: This contribution will present the Munich Motivational Training (MMT), an integrated program conceptualized to improve student motivation for self-regulated learning. During the introductory presentation of the pertinent theoretical background, ...

Summary: The importance of self-regulatory competences is outlined. Based on an integration of a general model of self-regulation sensu Bandura and Zimmerman and a process model of learning (Schmitz & Wiese) an instruction for self-regulated learning is ...

Summary: In Educational Psychology, there is a lack of studies that try to increase the effectiveness of training programs through the implementation of booster sessions. The “Training in Reasoning for Children I” by refers to children of ...

Summary: Studies on self-estimated intelligence indicate that males rate their intelligence higher than females. The present study investigates gender differences in self-estimated intelligence of children and young adults. One hundred and twenty-four ...

Summary: The Computer Literacy Inventory (Inventar zur Computerbildung - INCOBI) is an instrument for the comprehensive assessment of computer competence (measured by scales for declarative and procedural computer-related knowledge, familiarity with ...