The relationship of school belonging and friends» values to
academic motivation among urban adolescent students.
Not exact matches
In this week's EdNext podcast, Marty West of EdNext talks with Greg Toppo about
academic games and James Coleman's idea that they could be used to increase
motivation and
academic performance
among teens.
An interview published this week with NPR asks education professor Diane Schanzenbach of Northwestern University about her
motivation to gather the research on
academic redshirting in her recent article for Education Next «Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten: «Redshirting» may do more harm than good,» which challenges Malcolm Gladwell's assertion that being
among the oldest in one's peer group is always an advantage.
We then analyzed this data to explore the relationships
among happiness,
motivation, and
academic achievement.»
But
motivation is a complex phenomenon and depends,
among other things, on whether a student identifies as the kind of person who belongs in a particular
academic setting, or on whether he believes that his ability in an area can be developed with effort.
For example, Gregory Walton uses laboratory and field experiments to document the causal role of social ties in enhancing
academic motivation and course grades
among college students.
Presentations at the NCTE Conference were about narrative as a way of fostering student engagement and
motivation, narrative as a way to understand other people's cultures or environments, narrative as a way to create student voice, narrative as a spur to innovative thinking, narrative as a way to learn any
academic discipline, narrative as a form of persuasion, narrative as a way to create personal meaning and new knowledge, narrative as an impetus for social change, narrative as a way to inspire creativity, narrative as the beginning of inquiry, narrative as an expression of imagination, narrative as a reflection on one's own process of learning, and narrative as the basis of collaboration
among those with multiple perspectives.
This chapter presents findings of a three - year longitudinal study of
academic motivation and school engagement
among low - income high school students enrolled in a corporate work — study program.
Psychosocial Correlates of
Motivation for
Academic Accomplishment
among University Students
The relationship between relative levels of
motivation and intrapersonal, interpersonal, and
academic functioning
among older adolescents.
A student's
academic motivation and school connectedness also play stress - buffering roles and are associated with low levels of depression, anxiety and perceived stress
among high school students (Gilman and Anderman, 2006).
This qualitative study examined the weekly journals of 15 parents who were learning how to promote autonomous
motivation and
academic enjoyment
among their 4th and 5th grade children via autonomy supportive communication.