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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"motivational beliefs"”.
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Motivational Beliefs About Music and Six Other School Subjects: The Mexican Context
… of variance suggest that expectancies and value beliefs attached to music were similar for both students and teachers. Music was considered the least valued of the seven school subjects with both students and teachers holding lower expectations for success in learning and teaching this subject. …
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Teachers' Fixed-Ability Practices: Measurement, Antecedents, and Implications for Students' Motivational Beliefs and Achievement
Mindsets (i.e., implicit beliefs about whether ability can be changed) are important for students’ learning, but relatively little is known about how they develop. Considering the gaps in the literature, the overarching purpose of the present study was to understand the role of teaching practices …
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Effects of Motivational Beliefs and Instructional Practice on Students' Intention to Pursue Majors and Careers in Engineering
… of traditional and pilot groups on the students' motivational beliefs and their intention to pursue majors and careers in engineering. The difference between the two groups was in terms of instruction techniques used. The instructional techniques used for the traditional group was that of …
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A Quantitative Analysis of First Year Engineering Students' Courses Perceptions and Motivational Beliefs in Two Introductory Engineering Courses
… in an engineering degree. This study examines motivational constructs as it compares two versions (standard and revised) of an introductory engineering course taught in a general first year engineering program. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine students' course perceptions, …
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Autonomy Supportive Instruction as it relates to Students' Motivational Beliefs on an ePortfolio Project: The Moderating Role of Culturally Based Learning Preferences
… from an instructor in relation to students' motivational beliefs on an ePortfolio project. The motivational beliefs of interest included: Effort/Importance, felt Pressure/Tension, and Value/Usefulness. These relationships were further examined with particular focus on the potential moderating …
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The Effects of Social Support from Parent, Teacher, and Peers on High School Students' Math Achievement: The Mediational Role of Motivational Beliefs
The present study explored the direct influences of contextual social support, including parental involvement, perceived teacher support, and peer influence, on 11th-grade students' math achievement. The study also examined the indirect influences of these contextual social support factors on …
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Fostering Strategic Second-Language Writers: A Study of Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) Writers’ Self-Regulated Learning Strategies, Self-Efficacy and Motivational Beliefs
… of self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies, motivational beliefs and self-efficacy. Composed of two phases, this mixed-methods research was to offer insightful empirical evidence for implementing effective writing instruction with an aim to develop strategic EFL writers. Phase One aimed to …
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Dynamics of Motivation, Self-Regulation, and Feedback in Greek Adolescents' Academic Achievement: A Mixed-Methods Study
… multi-study examining the interplay between motivational, self-regulatory, and contextual factors that underpin the academic achievement in Greek adolescents. Drawing upon the social-cognitive theory, the cyclical and the metacognitive and affective models of self-regulated learning, a …
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Exploring motivational profiles among high school students: a social-cognitive perspective
Motivational beliefs are central role players in shaping academic self-regulation and achievement, which decline significantly as students matriculate secondary-educational contexts. This study uses an advanced latent-profile mixture model analysis to explore and identify the motivational belief …
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The Effects of Students' MUSIC Model Perceptions on Their Academic Identification and Achievement
… by exploring the extent to which students motivational beliefs in school predicted their academic identification and achievement. Specifically, I explored the extent to which the MUSICSM Model of Academic Motivation Inventory (MUSIC Inventory) produced valid scores among at-risk high school …
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The role of personal and contextual variables in college students' academic achievement
… students do adjust their study strategies and motivational beliefs effectively.</p>
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CONNECTEDNESS AND PERCEIVED INSTRUMENTALITY IN PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS: A COMPARISON OF TWO MEASURES
… Time Perspective is a model that describes motivational beliefs that are different from Expectancy-Value. It also suggests that our relationship to time-space is in somehow different from our relationship to the motivational objects that occupy that time-space.'
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Supporting Self-Beliefs and Intentions in STEM: A Longitudinal Investigation for Math and Science Ability Self-Concepts and STEM Major Intention among High School Students
… have focused on understanding adolescents’ motivational beliefs and STEM major intentions, with the aim of supporting their postsecondary education in STEM fields. Purpose: This dissertation consists of multiple manuscripts, using longitudinal analyses on a three-year data set from high …
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Educational equity for all : a qualitative case study exploring the perceptions of Hispanic parents regarding parental engagement at a rural Title I high school in Southwest Texas.
… of parental involvement, which involve parents' motivational beliefs, perceptions, life context, location of involvement, and types of parental involvement, to examine Hispanic parents' perceptions and shed light on the positive and negative factors that could facilitate or impede their …
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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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Integrative Perspectives of Academic Motivation
… on complex and dynamic patterns in individuals' motivational beliefs. Within the second manuscript (Chapter 3), we empirically investigated students' motivation in science class as a complex, dynamic, and context-bound phenomenon that incorporates multiple motivation constructs. Following a …
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Examining the Relationships between Aspects of Academic Motivation, Stereotype Threat, and Attributions for Perceived Performance in a Middle School English Course
… to more fully understand the differences in motivational beliefs between stereotype threatened and non-threatened students. The second goal of this study was to more firmly establish the link between achievement goals and attributions among middle school students. Methods: The final sample …
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Similar but Different: The Complexities of Students' Mathematical Identities
… be considered ‘good at math,’ and shows how the beliefs that make up their mathematical identities are actually significantly different. The study examined eight beliefs that affect a student's motivation to do mathematics: confidence, anxiety, enjoyment of mathematics, skill level, usefulness of …
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