Abstract not available

Abstract not available

Students' competence beliefs and task values are proximal psychological predictors of their achievement-related choices and academic achievement. Situated expectancy-value theory (SEVT) suggests that these beliefs are situationally sensitive and interact over short periods of time. In the present study, we explored the dynamic nature of students' situation-specific expectancy-value beliefs in five

Implicit theories about the malleability of various personal attributes have been linked to successful self-regulation in several domains (e.g., abilities and emotions). The current study extends these findings to achievement motivation in the context of self-regulated learning. Two surveys (N = 376 and N = 365) revealed an overall tendency of university students to believe that both intrinsic and

Many children and adolescents with reading comprehension difficulties demonstrate impairment in lexical and sublexical foundational skills, and require intervention for multiple levels of the reading system. This paper provides a merged analysis of results from four controlled intervention studies conducted by our research group: Children and adolescents with reading disabilities (RD) received multiple-component

The present study examined components of the simple view of reading in relation to reading comprehension in Arabic. The participants included 80 Arabic-English speaking children, 40 in Saudi Arabia and 40 in Canada, who were in 8–10 years. Subcomponents of linguistic comprehension, specifically vocabulary knowledge and morphological awareness, and decoding, specifically un-vowelized word reading and

The aim of this study was to investigate whether four causal attributions for success and failure each (two internal and two external attributions) can be predicted by four types of achievement goal orientations, and whether achievement goal orientations are connected with the perception of a performance as a success (vs. a failure). We surveyed 690 high school students writing a school-leaving certificate

Many second-generation immigrant (SGI) students are heritage-bilinguals whose mother tongue is not their school's instructional language. Adopting sociological and psycholinguistic perspectives, we examined the differences in achievement in various school subjects between SGI heritage-bilingual students and their non-immigrant background (NIB) heritage-monolingual peers in Israel. Most of the SGI students

Implicit theories have important implications for students' achievement goals and academic achievement. The Writer(s)-within-community model by Graham (2018) postulates that motivational beliefs stored in the long-term memory, such as implicit theories and achievement goals, influence how one approaches a writing task. Notwithstanding, few empirical studies examined the relations among implicit theories

Metacognitive monitoring plays a central role in models focusing on either monitoring strategies (models of self-regulated learning) or monitoring judgments and their accuracy (models of metacognition). Although monitoring strategies and monitoring judgments are both concerned with monitoring one's learning progress, they have been analyzed independently so far. To combine these two research perspectives

This paper examined the interplay of conscientiousness, two categories of learning strategies (i.e., time management and effort regulation), and academic performance in higher education. Based on data from two samples of first-year students (N1 = 106; N2 = 355), we aimed to validate previous results on a mediation model using a repeated measurement design. Second, we aimed to extend prior research

How high-achieving student subgroups are identified is widely discussed. Studies use different domain-general and domain-specific achievement indicators and methodological approaches. Traditional research included cut-off scores, which have been criticized as arbitrary. Recently, latent profile analyses have been used more often. The present study compared these approaches regarding their overlap to

The significant decline in academic engagement through the early stages of adolescence is well known, however, the relative contribution of the key factors explaining these adolescent patterns over time requires further investigation. Motivation has been a dominant research focus in past decades, while less empirical attention has been given to the comparative effects of puberty hormones (specifically

Abstract not available

Achievement gaps in students' literacy skills by socioeconomic status (SES) are prevalent across the globe. Theory suggests that reading and writing skills rely on similar knowledge and cognitive processes, yet home-based reading interventions do not typically investigate effects on writing outcomes. Using a randomized controlled trial, we examined the effect of a parent focused shared-reading intervention

This study aimed to examine the effects of teachers' instructional styles on students' interest in learning school subjects and academic achievement. Focusing on two subjects, English and mathematics, we explored whether teacher-centered instruction and student-centered instruction had distinctive effects depending on students' gender and levels of prior interest. Data from 1887 high school students

Teachers' basic psychological need satisfaction or frustration are associated with their tendency to adopt a motivating or demotivating teaching style. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations remain unclear. This study examined the role played by teachers' experienced and displayed enthusiasm. Three hundred forty-one high school teachers filled in self-report questionnaires to assess

Geometric proof has been believed to involve reasoning skills that can be used in other domains of math. However, empirical evidence concerning this belief is scant. The present study tested the hypotheses (1) that there is substantial overlap in the reasoning skills involved in one aspect of geometric proof, termed geometric proof justification, and probabilistic reasoning, and (2) that this overlap

In this study, we seek to identify different profiles of children following distinct developmental trajectories of academic self-concept. Moreover, we look at their developmental outcomes regarding school achievement and educational attainment. This study relied on an accelerated longitudinal design that followed three cohorts of elementary school children (445, 479 and 356 students respectively in

Research suggests that undergraduates' learning and performance-approach goals initiate distinct pathways to course achievement through different task values. However, few studies were longitudinal or controlled for initial task values. It therefore remains unclear whether task values mediate the relation between initial achievement goals and final grades beyond initial task values. The present study

Many children with developmental language disorder (DLD) are reported to have word reading difficulties. However, previous research has focused mostly on monolingual children. The present study used two existing datasets to assess word reading outcomes of bilingual children with DLD. In Study 1, we compared word reading outcomes of monolingual and bilingual children with and without DLD (n = 93 monolingual

This study tested whether Bookstart – a program promoting book reading in infancy – continues to have an impact well into Kindergarten. We distinguished between children who were more or less challenging to read to in infancy (more or less temperamentally reactive). Eighty percent (n = 471) of a sample participating in a study when the children were one year old – about half involved in Bookstart –

This longitudinal study aimed to investigate how motivational transitions of adolescents in the domain of mathematics from Grades 9 to 10 were related to student-perceived mathematics teacher support and student-oriented teaching. Data were drawn from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and its German national extension called PISA Plus 2012–2013. We used a subsample of 2605

The present study investigates whether task engagement mediates the effects of reading-related self-efficacy and motivation on reading comprehension. Finnish-speaking students from Grades 3 and 4 performed a computer-based reading comprehension task. Engagement was measured by two indicators retrieved from log files: time-on-task (behavioral engagement) and response strategy (cognitive engagement)

Various knowledge sources have been hypothesized to relate to individual differences in reading comprehension skill in developing readers. We present results from two studies using explanatory item-response models to examine the unique role of knowledge in predicting reading and listening comprehension in 5th grade students (mean age of 10.77 years). In study 1, we investigated the importance of different

Abstract not available

This study investigated how teachers' visual focus of attention is associated with students' basic academic skills and teachers' individual support for students in basic academic skills in authentic classroom settings. Teachers' (N = 46) visual focus of attention in the classroom was measured with mobile eye-tracking, and students' (N = 879) literacy and math skills were tested in Grade 1. The results

Mathematics learning is not only determined by mathematical contents, but also by reading strategies that students apply to comprehend the mathematical tasks. Although studies in mathematics education have shown that reading strategies are positively related to mathematics learning, the relation may not be linear as widely believed. Recent research in language assessment has found that the association

This cross-sectional study aimed to explore the influence of parental restrictive mediation on students' academic achievement and the mediating mechanisms behind this relationship. Grounded in social cognitive theory, this study investigated the relationship between restrictive mediation and students' science achievement and the mediating effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) self-efficacy

This study aims to investigate the effect 5E-based STEM learning strategies have on 9th-grade students' academic achievement, scientific creativity, and views about the nature of science in the atomic system and periodic table course. This study utilizes a quasi-experimental design. The research was conducted in the 2016 Fall Semester. The sample of the study consists of 133 9th-grade students from

Higher education includes e-learning in addition to on-site learning. Still, the shift to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) as reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic in the summer semester 2020, presented a challenging situation for students. Cross-sectional studies pointed towards higher stress levels of students. However, only a few studies addressed the development of students' stress across several dimensions

In achievement motive theory, need for achievement is conceptualized as an explanatory variable that triggers certain experiences and behaviors spontaneously. Experience sampling should therefore be an ideal approach for capturing such motive-specific affective contingencies. However, given that not all students seem to be aware of their underlying motives, the link between self-reported need for achievement

This study investigated the extent to which the uptake of peer-feedback of 10th grade students (N = 160, age range = 15–16) related to intrapersonal factors (error tolerance, feedback tolerance, and writing self-efficacy) and interpersonal factors (feedback provider's language skills, as perceived by the feedback recipient). Two groups of students received similar feedback on their writing performance

Along the primary school children show a decrease in enjoyment, while anxiety and boredom increase, leading to detrimental effects on performance and wellbeing. This suggests the need to deepen the knowledge of the factors linked with regulation of positive and negative affect. We hypothesized that the more children believe emotions are malleable, the higher is their tendency to regulate them and their

Intervention research in education is sometimes criticized for the use of experimenter developed assessments, especially when these are over aligned with treatment. At the same time, intervention researchers sometimes prefer locally developed assessments because they appear to be more sensitive to treatment effects even when the test is not subject to the criticism of over alignment. This paper examines

This study examined the identifiability and early cognitive and motivational markers of low reading and arithmetic fluency. Comparisons of these characteristics between Finnish third graders (n = 197) with low fluency in reading, arithmetic, or both revealed, first, that the majority of third graders with low arithmetic fluency showed low arithmetic skills already at first-grade spring, whereas children

Early identification is important for improving reading outcomes for children at risk for reading difficulties, but current methods tend to perform sub-optimally in identifying true risk. One possible reason is that whereas most prediction models assume linear relationships among risk and reading outcome measures, qualitatively different patterns of association may exist among the measures at different

In the present study, students' (n = 881) motives for attending university studies and study-related burnout were investigated in relation to their first-year academic achievement. The results showed that students' motives for attending university and study-related burnout at the outset of studies were connected to each other and to academic achievement at the end of the first study year. The results

The aim of the present study was to examine the predictive relation between teachers' motivational appeals (i.e., messages that appeal to a certain kind of motivation) and students' basic psychological need profiles and how the different profiles relate with students' well-being and grit. A total of 655 secondary students participated in the study. To determine the number of profiles a person-centered

Self-determination theory (SDT) posits that need-supportive teaching, which includes support for autonomy, competence, and relatedness facilitates motivation and achievement across cultures. However, prior evidence of SDT's cross-cultural generalizability were drawn from a limited set of cultural contexts. Furthermore, prior work has mainly focused on autonomy-support. This study used data from the

This study examined patterns of mothers' homework involvement (n = 680 in Grade 6 and 665 in Grade 7) and changes in them during 12-year-old Finnish adolescents' (n = 848; 391 boys) transition to lower secondary school. Moreover, the extent to which adolescents' motivational behavior and prior academic achievement predicted these patterns was examined. The latent transition analyses identified four

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among summer reading camp participants' initial prosocial efficacy, reading motivation, and their reading skill changes. Despite the theoretical explanation of social and emotional learning (SEL), there is a lack of empirical studies demonstrating the complex relationships and processes among students' social-emotional competencies and beneficial

The presented research aims to show that satisfaction and frustration of students' basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness is directly tied to the development of students' learning goal orientation. This assumption was investigated through a longitudinal survey study (N = 1059 German undergraduate students, assessment covering the first four semesters at university). Latent

This study examined the effects of a utility value (UV) intervention on students' situational interest and boredom in science using hierarchical linear growth modeling. Data were collected in a diverse sample of 339 students in 13 seventh and ninth grade science classrooms using surveys and end-of-class reports collected on 11 occasions. Results showed no UV intervention effects on students' trajectories

Self-regulated learning theory acknowledges the importance of an individual's metacognitive monitoring and group-level regulation for learning achievement in collaborative learning. However, very few studies have empirically investigated the interplay of these factors. This study aimed to investigate how groups' metacognitive interactions, group-level regulation, and individuals' metacognitive monitoring

There are ongoing efforts to understand female adolescents' motivation in math, as part of the science, technology, engineering, and math fields. The current study aimed to examine the temporal relations among expectancies, task values (intrinsic and utility value), and perceived costs (emotional and effort cost) in math to understand the underlying motivational processes for math-related career intention

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is essentially a complex dynamical system (CDS). However, no effort has been made to study SRL from a CDS approach in the context of science learning. In this study, we adopted the ideas and analytical techniques of complexity science to analyze SRL. Specifically, 74 ninth-grade students were asked to undertake an engineering design task in a computer-simulated environment

Parental socio-economic status (SES) is often found to be associated with children's language competence in the first decade of life. To examine the effect of SES on children's vocabulary development, as well as potential compensatory effects of schooling and learning-related activities, we examined the joint and unique effects of parental education, occupational status, and learning environment at

We studied the Papiamento (L1) and Dutch (L2) reading of 293 fourth grade students in the postcolonial Dutch Caribbean, where L1 just latterly has been introduced into the school curriculum. We examined the effect of language of alphabetization (L1 first vs L2 first) and other L1 and L2 cognitive-linguistic predictors on reading skills. The results show that children's mother tongue, Papiamento, occupies

Dimensional comparisons lead to contrast effects between academic self-concepts, implying that students view themselves as a math-type or a verbal-type. This study examined the short-term stability of these types and their generalizability to academic interest. N = 382 students completed questionnaires on self-concept and interest in math, physics, German, and English at two measurement waves over

Working memory (WM) is a potentially important factor related to the development of and performance in reading skills. This study examined the differential relations between two components of the WM system (i.e., storage, processing) and reading. Latent variables were created based on data from 1900 children (1146 children in preschool-second grade and 754 children in third-fifth grade) recruited for

The role of student well-being for academic outcomes is increasingly gaining attention. However, studies on the relationship between well-being and achievement are inconclusive, and evidence regarding associations between well-being and motives for achievement related behavior is scarce. The present study therefore investigates relations between students' school-related well-being, achievement goals

Fine motor skills and executive function are two examples of domain-general skills. Both are correlates of arithmetic and reading ability, and have been identified as predictors of school readiness. Little research has simultaneously assessed the influence of both these skills as predictors of academic abilities. Current evidence suggests their role as predictors lessens once children enter school

This study investigated the mediating role of children's school liking between parent-child interactions and children's pre-academic skills. Specifically, parent-child interactions included frequency of mothers' and fathers' formal and informal home learning activities with children, as well as their autonomy support during these activities. Three hundred first-year kindergarteners were tested on two

Current research has paid little attention to contextual or social factors that may contribute to procrastination. One social factor, which may influence procrastination, is group work among students. Compared to individual work, group work can enhance individual effort and performance when the individual's contribution is indispensable for group success. In a field experiment, students with high levels

Differences in classroom climate (CC) predict students' behavior and learning, but there is no evidence of specific variables potentially responsible for such differences. As school climate, teachers' motivational variables related to students, and students' motivational variables are potential predictors of CC, this study analyzes their predictive role. A total of 5471 students and 263 teachers from

Multiple document comprehension (MDC) refers to the ability to integrate information from multiple sources into a coherent representation, which requires specific cognitive processes. Assuming that epistemic beliefs are domain-related, this study investigates exploratively how epistemic beliefs in the domains of science and history affect the mastery of cognitive requirements in domain-general MDC

Despite the importance of alphabet knowledge for learning to read in English, we continue to have a limited understanding of children's alphabet knowledge learning and how to best support such learning. In this pretest-posttest within-subjects experimental study (n = 29), we examined alphabet learning as a function of lessons tailored to individual children's alphabet learning needs and as a function

Based on the control-value theory of achievement emotions, the present study investigates whether an intervention setting with the aim of inter alia promoting positive emotions could change control and value appraisals of low-achieving secondary school students in mathematics over two school years (Grades 7 and 8). Further, we examine the change-change assumption that positive intraindividual changes