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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Achievement motivation"”.
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Academic Achievement Motivation of Black Adolescents
… was to identify factors that predict academic motivation for Black adolescents as well as those that inhibit their motivation. This investigation also searched for significant distinctions between Black students who succeed in school and those who do not. The participants in the study were 368 …
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Achievement Motivation: An Area-Specific Analysis
… and area-specific (i.e., school, home, and peer) achievement motivation. It also investigated the question of whether adolescents are capable of maintaining differing levels of achievement motivation across the different areas of experience, and whether the capacity to do so varied with the race, …
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Achievement Motivation in African American College Students
… academic performance and stereotype threat (ST), achievement motivation, and racial socialization for African American (AA) students at an historically black university. Participants were 108 students randomly assigned to high or low ST condition. Students completed a performance measure, …
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A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Achievement Motivation in Sport and the Classroom
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.
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Educational Experiences of Latinas in Space Exploration: Achievement Motivation and Science Identity Development
… research by (a) offering insight on the types of achievement motivation that drives them to succeed along these challenging academic pathways; (b) providing an understanding of how Latinas in space exploration developed their science identities, and at what point they felt like they belonged as …
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Academic Achievement Motivation of Students of Agricultural Education Andits Relationship to Certain Variables
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:44:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7121237.pdf: 4888669 bytes, checksum: 663164edc8cdbefabec8a83afeeee048 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Achievement motivation of children in intact families, father-only families, and mother-only families
… to study the possible relationship between achievement motivation as displayed by the child and the parental situation in the home in which the child finds himself a parts. Fifty-four children in grades nine to 12 were administered the Adjective Check List (ACL) to determine the amount of …
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Clothing behavior of working women related to self-image/clothing- image congruity and achievement motivation
… self-image, ideal self-image, clothing-image and achievement motivation to predict women's clothing behavior for work. Using the integrated self-concept theory, two hypotheses were formulated: 1) costumes which induce positive congruity will be worn more than costumes which induce positive …
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Know Thyself: Misperceptions of Actual Performance Undermine Subjective Well-Being, Future Performance, and Achievement Motivation
… assumption that self-enhancement improves task motivation and future performance, I propose that both inflated or deflated self-assessments of performance are linked to an increased likelihood of practicing self-handicapping and having relatively poor performance in future tasks. Consistent with …
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An Investigation of Locus of Control and Achievement Motivation in Physically Handicapped Community College Students
… of physical handicap, and locus of control and achievement motivation among community college handicapped students. Three categories of handicapped students were selected: (a) Deaf, (b) Blind, and (c) Orthopedically Impaired, and compared to able-bodied students on locus of control and …
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Peer, Home, and School Achievement: A Study in Achievement Motivation (Virgin Islands, Grade Five, Caribbean)
… factors relate cross-gender to differential achievement patterns among fifth-grade students, particularly the degree of relationship between self-concept of ability and achievement, and between area-specific (peer, home, and school) achievement motivation and actual achievement.
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Know thyself: Misperceptions of actual performance undermine subjective well-being, future performance and achievement motivation
… assumption that self-enhancement improves task motivation and future performance, I propose that both inflated or deflated self-assessments of performance are linked to an increased likelihood of practicing self-handicapping and having relatively poor performance in future tasks. Consistent with …
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Self-Theories of Intelligence and Rural Middle School Students: Examining a Model of Achievement Motivation
… interventions to cultivate functional motivational beliefs in students are becoming increasingly popular. However, in education it is easy to prematurely place hope in promising, emerging techniques and ideas before they are fully explored through research. This study seeks to add to …
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Academic Procrastination and Achievement Motivation: An Expectancy Value Approach to Measure Academic Procrastination in University Online Courses
… investigate the relationship between students’ achievement motivation and their procrastination behaviour when learning online. Student achievement motivation was measured using Eccles and Wigfield’s (2020) Situated Expectancy Value Theory (SEVT), which conceptually understands a student’s …
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The relationship of achievement motivation and academic achievement with externalizing and internalizing emotionally and behaviorally handicapped children
… study was to examine the relationship between achievement motivation and academic achievement with externalizing (i.e., aggressive, acting-out) and Internalizing (i.e., Immature withdrawal) emotionally and behaviorally handicapped children. Furthermore, the mean difference in academic …
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