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Homework purposes, homework behaviors, and academic achievement. Examining the mediating role of students’ perceived homework quality
Publication date: April 2018Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 53Author(s): Pedro Rosário, José Carlos Núñez, Guillermo Vallejo, Tânia Nunes, Jennifer Cunha, Sonia Fuentes, Antonio ValleAbstractA multi-level structural equation model was used to examine the relationships between the homework purposes reported by teachers (i.e. practice, preparation, participation, and personal development), homework quality perceived by students (e.g., homework related to the class material taught) and homework variables (i.e. effort, and homework performance) collected through different sources, and mathematics achie...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Repairing the leaky pipeline: A motivationally supportive intervention to enhance persistence in undergraduate science pathways
Publication date: April 2018Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 53Author(s): Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Tony Perez, Michael M. Barger, Stephanie V. Wormington, Elizabeth Godin, Kate E. Snyder, Kristy Robinson, Abdhi Sarkar, Laura S. Richman, Rochelle Schwartz-BloomAbstractThe current study reports on the efficacy of a multi-faceted motivationally designed undergraduate enrichment summer program for supporting science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) persistence. Structural equation modeling was used to compare summer program participants (n = 186), who participated in the program between their fir...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

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Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Relational reasoning and divergent thinking: An examination of the threshold hypothesis with quantile regression
In this study, quantile regression was used to test the TH among RR and two separate dimensions of DT: originality and fluency. Results generally supported the TH in regards to originality, with RR being significantly positively related to originality, but only in students at or below the median of the originality distribution. However, the TH was not upheld for fluency, which was only significantly predicted by RR at the top (i.e. 9th decile) of the fluency distribution. In general, results suggest that direct instructional intervention of RR strategies may be most supportive of creativity for those students who are simul...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Faculty members’ motivation for teaching and best practices: Testing a model based on self-determination theory across institution types
This study tested a conceptual model based on self-determination theory to examine how university faculty members’ motivation for teaching predicts their utilization of teaching best practices, and explored if faculty at various higher education institution types are differentially motivated for teaching. Data from a national online survey of 1671 faculty from 19 universities was analyzed using structural equation modeling. Support for the overall model showed faculty autonomy, competence, and relatedness positively predicted autonomous motivation (intrinsic, identified), but not controlled motivation (introjected, exter...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Career aspirations, perceived instrumentality, and achievement in undergraduate computer science courses
Publication date: April 2018Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 53Author(s): Markeya S. Peteranetz, Abraham E. Flanigan, Duane F. Shell, Leen-Kiat SohAbstractThis research investigated the relationships among undergraduate computer science students’ computer-science-related career aspirations, perceived instrumentality (PI) for computer science courses, and achievement in those courses. Specifically, the two studies examined (a) change in PI and career aspirations during a single semester, (b) the relationship between change in career aspirations and change in PI, and (c) the influence of career aspiratio...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Environmental correlates of early language and literacy in low- to middle-income Filipino families
Publication date: April 2018Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 53Author(s): Katrina May Dulay, Sum Kwing Cheung, Catherine McBrideAbstractSocioeconomic status (SES) is a distal factor that may be related to children’s early language and literacy skills via more proximal factors such as home literacy environment (HLE), preschool attendance, and parental self-efficacy (PSE). Previous evidence for these links mostly came from research in developed countries, and interventions in developing countries were designed with those findings in mind. Structural equation modeling was used to extend the generalizabili...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Direct and reciprocal effects among social skills, vocabulary, and reading comprehension in first grade
This study examined the relations among three dimensions of social skills—cooperation, assertion, and self-control—vocabulary and developing reading comprehension (RC) skills in a longitudinal sample of first graders (n = 468). Using Structural Equation Modeling, reciprocal effects were observed between vocabulary and RC as well as direct effects among social skills, vocabulary, and RC after controlling for the influence of problem behaviors. This study highlights the reciprocal nature of students’ vocabulary and RC skills as well as provides preliminary evidence suggesting that social skills play a role in devel...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Relations among math self efficacy, interest, intentions, and achievement: A social cognitive perspective
Publication date: April 2018Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 53Author(s): Sara Grigg, Harsha N. Perera, Peter McIlveen, Zvetomira SvetleffAbstractDrawing on social cognitive perspectives, the present study examined an integrative model of the interplay among math self-efficacy, interests, aspirations, and achievement among early and middle adolescents. Based on short-term longitudinal data from approximately 400 students, analyses using fully latent structural equation analyses, establishing requisite levels of longitudinal invariance, revealed that (a) math self-efficacy positively predicted math achiev...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Investigating the multidimensionality of engagement: Affective, behavioral, and cognitive engagement across science activities and contexts
Publication date: April 2018Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 53Author(s): Adar Ben-Eliyahu, Debra Moore, Rena Dorph, Christian D. SchunnAbstractThe reciprocal relations of motivation with affective, behavioral, and cognitive engagement were tested. Engagement, conceptualized as processes that indicate productive participation in learning activities, was measured using the Activity Engagement Survey with students participating in a variety of activities in both schools and a museum. The multifaceted nature of engagement and the consistency of this structure across contexts and activities was examined over...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Does students’ grit predict their school achievement above and beyond their personality, motivation, and engagement?
Publication date: April 2018Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 53Author(s): Ricarda Steinmayr, Anne F. Weidinger, Allan WigfieldAbstractGrit—individuals’ perseverance of effort and consistency of interests—was introduced in 2007 as new construct that predicts different achievement outcomes. To date, most studies examining grit’s prediction of achievement have not included other predictors in their analyses. Therefore, we assessed grit’s incremental validity for school achievement above theoretically and empirically related predictors, in two adolescent student samples from Germany. Study 1 (N =...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Predictive inference generation and story comprehension among children with ADHD: Is making predictions helpful?
Publication date: April 2018Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 53Author(s): Angela Hayden, Elizabeth P. Lorch, Richard Milich, Cristina Cosoreanu, Jessica Van NesteAbstractChildren with ADHD exhibit narrative comprehension difficulties relative to typically developing peers. One unexplored comprehension area for this population is the generation of explanatory predictive inferences. Plausible explanatory predictive inferences allow for smooth integration of new information, and are targeted in many comprehension interventions. The current study examined three questions: (1) Is there a difference between ch...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

The role of friends in help-seeking tendencies during early adolescence: Do classroom goal structures moderate selection and influence of friends?
Publication date: April 2018Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 53Author(s): Huiyoung ShinAbstractResearch has evidenced that help-seeking is an important self-regulatory strategy of learning. However, the role of friends in help-seeking has been underexplored. In the current study, we examined the longitudinal associations between early adolescents’ selection and influence of friends and help-seeking tendencies, and whether students’ perceived classroom goal structures moderate these associations among fifth and sixth graders (N = 736 at Wave 1, N = 677 at Wave 2). With longitudinal social netw...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Patterns of math and English self-concepts as motivation for college major selection
Publication date: April 2018Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 53Author(s): Osman Umarji, Peter McPartlan, Jacquelynne EcclesAbstractA variable and person-centered approach was applied to understand the development of cross domain self-concepts of ability, patterns of math and English self-concepts of ability throughout adolescence, and their associations with college major. An expectancy-value perspective was integrated with dimensional comparison theory to understand how math and English self-concepts of ability relate to one another over time and within a person. Regression analysis identified a positiv...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Adaptability, personal best (PB) goals setting, and gains in students’ academic outcomes: A longitudinal examination from a social cognitive perspective
Publication date: April 2018Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Volume 53Author(s): Emma C. Burns, Andrew J. Martin, Rebecca J. CollieAbstractThe present investigation examines how two novel constructs, adaptability (for self-regulation) and PB goal setting (for goal setting), operate alongside the more “traditional” constructs of the triadic model of social cognitive theory (SCT; Bandura, 1986) to predict students’ academic gains over time. Given that the triadic model highlights the importance of self-regulation and goal setting in human motivation, it is important to revisit classic models (such as SCT) t...
Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research