Cohort trends for school subject-specific self-concepts and interests for girls and boysAbstract. Academic self-concepts and interests are among the most important motivational constructs in educational psychology. Gender ...
Summary: The internal/external frame of reference (I/E) model by Marsh assumes two central information sources for the constitution of domain-specific academic self-concepts: (1) Social comparisons (external frame of reference), in which students compare ...
Zusammenfassung: In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde der Frage nachgegangen, welche Rolle Leistungsgruppierungen in der Sekundarstufe I für die Schulleistung und für die Entwicklung selbstbezogener Fähigkeitskognitionen spielen. Daten von N = 2730 Schülern ...
Testing Models on the Genesis of Academic Self-Concepts: Findings of the PISA StudySummary: The nationally representative sample of 15-year-old students investigated in the PISA study (Programme for International Student Assessment) provides achievement ...
Students holding less prestigious technological baccalaureates underachieve in college compared to those who have a general baccalaureate. Because they are also suspected of having lower intellectual ability, the stereotype threat hypothesis (Steele, 1997)...
Academic Self-Concepts, Achievement and the Internal Frame of Reference: A Design-Oriented Demonstration of Predictions Derived from the I/E-modelSummary: Even though grades in different subjects are substantially correlated, the corresponding self-...
Summary: The current longitudinal study (consisting of 78 fifth and sixth grade math classes; N = 1762 students) investigates the relationship between domain-specific achievement and emotional experiences. Using a mediation model (adapted from Pekrun, ...
Summary: The Internal/External Frame of Reference model (I/E-M, Marsh, 1986) assumes that social (interindividual) and dimensional (intraindividual) comparisons of academic achievements have an impact on academic self-concepts. Dimensional comparisons are ...
Summary: Frame of reference models assume that both, social and intraindividual (= “dimensional”) comparisons affect the academic self-concept. Comparing one's achievement in a domain A with lower achievement in another domain B (dimensional downward ...
On the Interplay of Academic Achievement, Self-Concept, and Interest in Upper Secondary SchoolsAbstract. There is a complex pattern of relationships among academic self-concept, interest, course choices and achievement in mathematics. The present study ...
Academic Self-Concepts - Formation, Effects, EnhancementAbstract. Academic self-concept is an important research topic in educational psychology. The present article shortly describes important models of the structure of the self-concept and a model of ...
Study Requirements in Teacher EducationRecent research has been focusing on teacher education. The aspect of study requirements has not been investigated until now. The present online study examines these requirements by applying the method for analyzing ...
Achievement Imagery of Schoolbooks and Academic Performance in Elementary SchoolBased on empirical studies, we expected the achievement imagery of elementary textbooks to be positively related to academic performance in elementary school. To test this, ...
The Role of Grades for Changes in Intrinsic Motivation and Ability Self-Concept in GermanAbstract. Based on theoretical assumptions made by self-determination theory, we investigated reciprocal relations between elementary schoolchildren's intrinsic ...
Academic self-concepts and self-efficacies: Their interdependencies and relationships to scholastic achievementAbstract. Self-concept and self-efficacy are important constructs in educational psychology. They have frequently been the object of research in ...
Abstract.Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, and Kelley (2007) introduced “grit” as a “new” performance-related motivational trait. It is conceptualized as a higher-order factor which is based on ...
Abstract. Academic interest and academic self-concept are important correlated motivational variables. Their common factorial structure and their shared (confounded) and non-shared (unique) power for predicting subject-tied ...
Abstract. Grounded in social-psychological literature, this experimental study assessed the effects of two so-called “wise” interventions implemented in a student study program. The interventions took place during the very first week at ...
Abstract. The present study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Math Homework Purpose Scale (MHPS). After randomly splitting the sample (N = 854) into two subsamples (n = 427 and n = 427), we carried out exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on ...
Children's Executive Functions: Scrutinizing Cognitive Training ProgramsAbstract:Background: Executive functions are usually divided into working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility. Cognitive training ...