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A race re-imagined, intersectional approach to academic mentoring: Exploring the perspectives and responses of womxn in science and engineering research
Publication date: Available online 21 June 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Idalis Villanueva, Marialuisa Di Stefano, Laura Gelles, Paul Vicioso Osoria, Sheree BensonAbstractIn academic mentoring research, there is a need to include empirical designs that considers more sociocultural perspectives. The purpose of this exploratory study was to race re-imagine academic mentoring by considering its sociocultural perspectives (i.e., intersectionality, tokenism, and awareness).For this, a qualitative-dominant mixed-methods approach was used to explore the perspectives and responses of twelve womxn gradua...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - June 21, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Math Homework: Parental Help and Children’s Academic Outcomes
Publication date: Available online 19 June 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Gintautas Silinskas, Eve KikasAbstractIn the present study, we examined the longitudinal relations between child-perceived parental help with math homework (i.e., support and control), children’s math skills, and mother-reported task persistent behavior in homework situations. A total of 624 mother–child dyads were followed across Grade 6 and Grade 9, controlling for Grade 3 variables. At each measurement point, children completed math tests, and their mothers evaluated task persistence during homework. In Grades 6 and ...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - June 20, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Developing a Thirst for Knowledge: How Uncertainty in the Classroom Influences Curiosity, Affect, Learning, and Transfer
This study extends existing research on uncertainty and curiosity by studying these constructs in real classrooms, in the context of an exploratory learning paradigm, and by considering curiosity’s effect on transfer, rather than just learning. This work also demonstrates a practical approach for educators to foster students’ curiosity and transfer. (Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology)
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - June 20, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Putting “mobile” into mathematics: Results of a randomised controlled trial
Publication date: Available online 8 June 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Khristin Fabian, Keith J. ToppingAbstractThere is an increasing use of mobile technologies in the classroom, particularly its use in supporting contextual learning, but comparative research on the effects of mobile learning in mathematics are few. The aim of this research was to examine student perceptions of using mobile technologies and their effect on mathematics achievement in a randomised controlled trial. Seventy-four Grade 5 and 6 students and three teachers participated in the study. Both groups participated in six w...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - June 9, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Testing for invariance in a structural model of academic achievement across underachieving and non-underachieving students
Publication date: Available online 4 June 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Raquel Gilar-Corbi, Pablo Miñano, Alejandro Veas, Juan-Luis CastejónAbstractThis work aimed to test the invariance of a causal structural model of the determinants of academic achievement in underachieving and non-underachieving students. A theoretical model of the relationships between personal, social, and familial variables and academic performance was derived empirically using data from a large sample obtained in a previous study, prior to testing for invariance across the two student groups. Underachieving students we...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - June 5, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Demonstrating Competence Within One’s Group or in Relation to Other Groups: A Person-Oriented Approach to Studying Achievement Goals in Small Groups
Publication date: Available online 3 June 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Toni Kempler Rogat, Lisa Linnenbrink-GarciaAbstractTwo studies investigated students’ adopted mastery and performance goals for group work, with an interest in exploring whether performance-approach goals functioned differently in small groups depending on whether the social comparison target resides outside the group (i.e., between-group comparison; performance-approach between group goals) or within the group (i.e., within-group comparison; performance-approach within goals). Using a person-oriented approach, six achieve...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - June 4, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Bidirectional relationships between children’s executive functioning, visual skills, and word reading ability during the transition from kindergarten to primary school
Publication date: Available online 28 May 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Cuina Liu, Kevin Kien Hoa, Wing Kai FungAbstractThis longitudinal study investigated the bidirectional relationships between executive functioning (EF), visual skills, Chinese and English word reading abilities in children transitioning to primary school. A total of 165 children in Hong Kong were followed from the third year of kindergarten (Time 1) (mean age: 62.80 months, SD: 3.74) to the first year of primary school (Time 2) (mean age: 77.25 months, SD: 4.60). Assessments for measuring EF, visual skills, phonological awar...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - May 28, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Succeeding at junior high school: Students’ reasons, their reach, and the teaching that h(inders)elps their grasp
Publication date: Available online 22 May 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Luke K. Fryer, W.L. Quint Oga-BaldwinAbstractHow do we support students through their difficult transition to secondary school? Perceived value for and perceived ability to be successful during secondary school are a crucial part of any answer to this question. These perceptions and their interaction with classroom instruction are at the heart of many issues students face in this challenging new learning environment. Seeking to address these issues head-on, the current study modelled the shared role of motivation (intrinsic/...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - May 24, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Effects of Perceived Autonomy Support from Social Agents on Motivation and Engagement of Chinese Primary School Students: Psychological Need Satisfaction as Mediator
Publication date: Available online 13 May 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Li-Hua Zhou, Nikos Ntoumanis, Cecilie Thøgersen NtoumaniAbstractLittle research has simultaneously examined the differential effects of autonomy support from parents, teachers, and peers (social agents) on students’ psychological need satisfaction, motivation, and school engagement. Drawing from Self-Determination Theory, this study examined the joint effects of perceived autonomy support from these three social agents on psychological needs, motivation, and engagement of 614 Chinese primary school students. Results revea...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - May 14, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

How Handwriting Behaviors During Problem Solving Are Related to Problem-Solving Success in an Engineering Course
Publication date: Available online 27 April 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Thomas F. Stahovich, Timothy Van Arsdale, Richard E. MayerAbstractIf we carefully observe the spatial and temporal organization of students' pen strokes as they solve an engineering problem, can we predict their ability to achieve the correct answer? To address this question, 122 college students were asked to solve exam problems in an engineering course using a smartpen that recorded their writing as digitized timestamped pen strokes. The pen stroke data was used to compute a collection of 10 metrics characterizing variou...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - April 28, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Family-support goals drive engagement and achievement in a collectivist context: Integrating etic and emic approaches in goal research
Publication date: Available online 22 April 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Ronnel B. King, Dennis M. McInerneyAbstractMuch of the goal research in educational psychology has focused on top-down etic approaches with little emphasis on the use of bottom-up emic methods to uncover culturally-relevant phenomena. The aim of this study was to combine etic and emic approaches and to explore how goals derived from both approaches drive engagement and achievement. Study 1 was a qualitative study which aimed to examine the different types of goals that students spontaneously generated in school contexts. W...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - April 24, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Corrigendum to “Student agency at the crux: Mitigating disengagement in middle and high school” [Contemp. Educ. Psychol. 56 (2019) 205–217]
Publication date: Available online 19 April 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Ross C. Anderson, Matthew Graham, Patrick Kennedy, Nancy Nelson, Michael Stoolmiller, Scott K. Baker, Hank Fien (Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology)
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - April 20, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Associations between Executive Function and Mathematics in Early Childhood
Publication date: Available online 11 April 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Tutrang Nguyen, Robert J. Duncan, Drew H. BaileyAbstractDespite agreement about the importance of executive function (EF) for children’s early math achievement, its treatment in correlational studies reflects a lack of agreement about the theoretical connection between the two. It remains unclear whether the association between EF and math operates through a latent EF construct or specific EF components. Specifying the correct measurement model has important theoretical implications for the predicted effects of EF interv...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - April 12, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Processes of Students’ Effort Exertion, Competence Beliefs and Motivation: Cyclic and Dynamic Effects of Learning Experiences within School Days and School Subjects
Publication date: Available online 10 April 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Lars-Erik Malmberg, Andrew J. MartinAbstractWe pose a process perspective of learning experiences of effort exertion, competence beliefs, and motivation (autonomous and controlled motivation). Following a process-model of cyclic (”self-sustaining”, auto-regressive) and dynamic (”self-enhancing” and ”self-diminishing”, cross-lagged) associations over time, we investigated the effects of lagged within-day and within-school-subject constructs, and associations with teacher-perceptions of each student (nteacher= 22...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - April 11, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

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Publication date: April 2019Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 57Author(s): (Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology)
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - March 30, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research