The Influence of Learning Motivation and Learning Strategies on College Achievement: Results of a Longitudinal AnalysisSummary: Existing research on the prediction of college achievement suffers from a lack of both longitudinal analyses and complex ...
Regulatory Focus - An OverviewAbstract. According to the regulatory focus theory (RFT; Higgins, 1997) individuals can reach goals through two varying self-regulatory systems: either by focusing on their ideals and profit whereby they use promotion ...
Motivation, Flow-Experience, and Performance in Learning Settings at UniversitiesAbstract: According to the cognitive-motivational model of learning, performance depends on the quality and quantity of learning activities as well as on the functional ...
The Development of Academic Self-ConceptsAbstract. The papers of the special issue are discussed following three questions: How is the structure of academic self-concepts to be described? How do academic self-concepts develop, and what kinds of factors ...
Assessing Science-Related Beliefs at Upper Secondary and College Level: A Validation Study of the FREE QuestionnaireThis paper presents an extended validation of a German questionnaire recently devised to measure the developmental level of ...
In a longitudinal analysis of students measured on five occasions over eight critical developmental years (grade 10 to five years after high school graduation), school-average ability (M-ABIL) had negative effects on academic self-concept (ASC), school ...
Development of Students Attending Extracurricular Activities: Compensatory Effects of Extracurricular Activities?In this paper we examine the development of mathematics achievement in children attending all-day schools who make intensive attendance of ...
Abstract. According to recent research (Eccles, 1999; GEOlino-UNICEF-Kinderwertemonitor, 2014), young people are particularly interested in issues related to affiliation, achievement, or power. We suggest that tasks that ...
Two experiments investigated to what extent different types of individualist and collectivist attitudes are perceived as leading to achievement and relational competence. In Study 1, the degree of unique (horizontal individualism) and competitive (...
Facets of academic self-concept. Development of a self-concept grid: psychometric properties and some validity dataAbstract. Academic self-concept plays an important role in the educational context. A grid is developed to measure various facets of ...
Large classes - Low achievement? Class sizes and historical knowledge in fifteen countriesAbstract. The relationship between class size and students' achievement is a matter of enduring discussion. Based on a large data set of ninth graders (665 classes ...
The impact of dimensional and social comparisons on ability scores and achievement contentmentAbstract. The study deals with the question whether internal dimensional comparisons (comparisons of one's own achievement in a task with one's own achievement ...
Zusammenfassung. Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert das soziale Lernumfeld von SchülerInnen der 6. bis 10. Schulstufe. Aufbauend auf eine systematische Begriffsklärung zu zentralen Parametern dieses Forschungsbereichs und einer Definition von Kriterien für ...
Are Students With Optimistic Self-Concepts One Step Ahead? Relations Between Optimistic, Realistic, and Pessimistic Self-Concepts and the Achievement Development of Primary School ChildrenAbstract. In educational research, optimistic self-concepts are ...
Gender-specific expectancy effects in mathematics. What role does the professional knowledge of teachers play?Abstract. Teacher expectations are considered an important factor in students’ achievement development. However, it is still unclear to what ...
Nach Krug und Kuhl (2006) sollten die Motivprofile von Leistungssportlern eine Passung zu den Anforderungen der jeweiligen Sportart aufweisen. Diesen Annahmen zufolge sollten bei Leistungssporttreibenden insbesondere das Leistungs- und Machtmotiv dominant ...
Demonstrating factor invariance across population characteristics is an important facet of validating instruments. A new instrument to examine students’ conceptions of assessment (SCoA) has been demonstrated in studies to show significant relations to ...
Abstract. Although test anxiety has a long history in the educational and psychological literature there is a lack of census over its dimensionality. The aim of the present study was to clarify the dimensionality of test anxiety and ...
The desires to live in another country or to emigrate from one's country of origin was examined in a sample of 3200 university students from Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, and Slovenia. All of these countries have been experiencing economic ...