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Differential Effects of Perceptions of Equal, Favourable and Unfavourable Autonomy Support on Educational and Well-Being Outcomes
In this study, we examined whether high-school students experienced optimal educational and well-being outcomes when they perceived that they and their classmates received an equal, rather than unequal, and high amount of autonomy support from teachers. In a prospective study that aimed to predict academic grades and well-being outcomes, surface analyses of polynomial regression equations pointed that perceptions of equal autonomy support were the most optimal in terms of yielding highest levels of need satisfaction, autonomous forms of motivation and happiness with math courses. Additionally, in accordance with tenets of ...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - February 20, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Adding Previous Experiences to the Person-Situation Debate of Achievement Emotions
Publication date: Available online 18 February 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Lisa Respondek, Tina Seufert, Ulrike E. NettAbstractWhen preparing for exams, students experience various achievement emotions, which are related to their perceived academic control and achievement regarding their exams. These emotions are shaped by a trait-like stable person-specific component and a state-like variable situation-specific component. Furthermore, it is plausible that students' previous emotional experiences might influence their current emotional experiences. Therefore, the present study aimed to disenta...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - February 19, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

How are Upper Secondary School Students’ Expectancy-Value Profiles Associated With Achievement and University STEM Major? A Cross-Domain Comparison
Publication date: Available online 18 February 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Hanna Gaspard, Eike Wille, Stephanie V. Wormington, Chris S. HullemanAbstractExpectancy-value theory (Eccles, 2009) posits that students’ relative expectancies and values across domains inform their academic choices. Students should therefore be more likely to choose a STEM major if they have higher expectancies and values in STEM domains compared with other domains. Accordingly, this study aimed to explore how upper secondary school students’ profiles in expectancy-value beliefs in math and English are related to c...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - February 19, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Relations among Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Engagement, and Work Satisfaction: A Social Cognitive View
Publication date: Available online 15 February 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Helena Granziera, Harsha N. PereraAbstractAlthough recent research has examined the links between (a) teacher self-efficacy and teacher engagement and (b) teacher engagement and job satisfaction, comparatively little is known about the longitudinal interplay among teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, work engagement, and job satisfaction. Using short-term longitudinal data from almost 600 teachers, we redress this gap in the literature by examining a social-cognitive reciprocal-effects model linking teachers’ self-effic...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - February 15, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Students’ and Teachers’ Monitoring and Regulation of Students’ Text Comprehension: Effects of Comprehension Cue Availability
Publication date: Available online 7 February 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Janneke van de Pol, Anique B.H. de Bruin, Mariëtte H. van Loon, Tamara van GogAbstractFor regulation of text learning to be effective, students need to accurately monitor their text comprehension. Similarly, to provide adaptive instruction, teachers need to accurately monitor and regulate students’ text comprehension. Performing generative activities prior to monitoring has been suggested to provide students with diagnostic cues, improving monitoring accuracy; an open question is whether this would also help teachers....
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - February 8, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

The Moderating Effect of Regulatory Focus in the Relationship between Potential Flexibility and Practical Flexibility
Publication date: Available online 31 January 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Jia Wang, Ru-De Liu, Jon Star, Ying Liu, Rui ZhenAbstractTwo studies examined the moderating effect of a motivational factor (regulatory focus) on the relation between potential flexibility (knowledge of multiple strategies and strategy efficiency) and practical flexibility (using the most efficient strategy to solve mathematics problems). Regulatory focus was measured as an individual disposition (in Study 1) or induced as a situational state using different descriptions of a math exam (in Study 2). Results provided evi...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - February 1, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Embodied Truths: How Dynamic Gestures and Speech Contribute to Mathematical Proof Practices
Publication date: Available online 31 January 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Elizabeth L. Pier, Candace Walkington, Virginia Clinton, Rebecca Boncoddo, Caroline Williams-Pierce, Martha W. Alibali, Mitchell J. NathanAbstractGrounded and embodied theories of cognition suggest that both language and the body play crucial roles in grounding higher-order thought. This paper investigates how particular forms of speech and gesture function together to support abstract thought in mathematical proof construction. We use computerized text analysis software to evaluate how speech patterns support valid proo...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - February 1, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

A Tale of Two Quests: The (Almost) Non-Overlapping Research Literatures on Students' Evaluations of Secondary-School and University Teachers
Publication date: Available online 25 January 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Herbert W. Marsh, Theresa Dicke, Mathew PfeifferAbstractMany 1000s of studies have been conducted on the validity and diagnostic usefulness of students' evaluations of university teaching (SET), but there is a surprising lack of research on ratings by secondary students. Integrating these two disparate research areas, we evaluate the appropriateness of university SET instruments to secondary settings. Secondary students evaluated an effective and less effective teacher using items adapted from two university instruments,...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - January 26, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Student Agency at the Crux: Mitigating Disengagement in Middle and High School
This study applied social cognitive theory to explore how self-efficacy and perceived control—two main factors of personal agency—may play a role in mitigating this decline in engagement and further contribute to academic performance. We used dual change score modeling to examine the dynamic structure of personal agency and disengagement during grades 8–10 for a large sample of students from the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. In that model, we analyzed how those variables predicted grade point average and attendance for students at the end of 10th grade. Students did not necessarily become more disengaged as a result ...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - January 25, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Promoting mathematics achievement in one-way immersion: Performance development over four years of elementary school
Publication date: Available online 23 January 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Johanna Fleckenstein, Sandra Kristina Gebauer, Jens MöllerAbstractDeveloping mathematical proficiency is one of the central goals in elementary school. Although there is an extensive literature on learning mathematics in general, longitudinal research on students’ mathematical skill development in a second language classroom is scarce. The present study focuses on mathematics achievement in elementary school and investigates the effects of taking part in a partial one-way immersion program (most subjects are taught in...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - January 24, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Meaningful integration within mixed methods studies: Identifying why, what, when, and how
Publication date: Available online 11 January 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Vicki L. Plano ClarkAbstractThis special issue of Contemporary Educational Psychology brings together an important collection of examples of how researchers have applied mixed methods research to study questions of interest in the field of educational psychology. Collectively, the articles illustrate the unique insights that can be gained when researchers intentionally integrate quantitative and qualitative methods within mixed methods studies. Further, the special issue highlights specific mixed methods strategies that ...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - January 18, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

An Empirical Basis for Linking Social and Emotional Learning to Academic Performance
Publication date: Available online 17 January 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Margarita Panayiotou, Neil Humphrey, Michael WigelsworthAbstractThere is general agreement about the benefits of school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions in relation to children and young people’s social-emotional competence, mental health, and academic achievement. However, we know little about the theorized mechanisms through which SEL leads to improved academic outcomes. The current study is the first to present an integrative model (derived from the SEL logic model) using a 3-wave (annual asse...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - January 18, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Science identity development trajectories in a gateway college chemistry course: Predictors and relations to achievement and STEM pursuit
Publication date: January 2019Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 56Author(s): Kristy A. Robinson, Tony Perez, Justin H. Carmel, Lisa Linnenbrink-GarciaAbstractThis investigation of undergraduates’ heterogeneous science identity trajectories within a gateway chemistry course identified three latent classes (High and Stable, Moderate and Slightly Increasing, Moderate and Declining) using growth mixture modeling. Underrepresented minorities were more likely to exhibit Moderate-and-Slightly-Increasing science identities versus High-and-Stable patterns. Students with higher perceived competence were more like...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - January 17, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Application of a Single-Case Intervention Procedure To Assess the Replicability of a Two-Component Instructional Strategy
Publication date: Available online 10 January 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Yooyeun Hwang, Joel R. LevinAbstractA dual-component single-case multiple-baseline design and statistical analysis was implemented to assess the replicability of instructional-strategy effects that have been well established in previous conventional randomized “group” intervention research. The 15-week intervention study examined the efficacy of a sequentially presented pictorial “mnemonic numeric” strategy designed to help seven 11- and 12-year-old children remember the dates (centuries and decades) of various 1...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - January 11, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Mixed methods in educational psychology inquiry
Publication date: Available online 11 January 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Matthew T. McCrudden, Gwen Marchand, Paul SchutzAbstractMixed methods research has the potential to advance theory and enhance the usefulness of research findings. However, the success of a mixed methods research inquiry is tied to how well researchers integrate the quantitative and qualitative strands, and to how well researchers address the standards for quality in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. In this introduction article, we define mixed methods research and discuss what mixed methods research can off...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - January 11, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research