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50 Years of ERIC
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Kessels, Ursula; Steinmayr, Ricarda – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This study seeks to understand boys' lower academic success by analysing the relationship between sex, gender role self-concept, help seeking attitudes, and school performance in a sample of 182 German 11th grade students (83 girls, 99 boys), age 16. Grades at two points in time, intelligence test data, help-seeking attitudes, gender role…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Intelligence Tests, Sex Role, Intelligence
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Wigent, Catherine A. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This study examined above average high school readers and high school readers with learning disabilities in order to better understand the impact of twelve years of formal education on reading skills and strategy use while reading expository text. This study examined reading strategies related to knowledge construction, monitoring, and evaluating…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Achievement, Learning Disabilities, Reading Strategies
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Goetz, Thomas; Nett, Ulrike E.; Martiny, Sarah E.; Hall, Nathan C.; Pekrun, Reinhard; Dettmers, Swantje; Trautwein, Ulrich – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
In the present study (N = 553; 8th and 11th grade students; 52% female) we investigated students' enjoyment, pride, anxiety, anger, and boredom while completing homework (homework emotions), and contrasted these emotions with those experienced during class (classroom emotions). Both homework emotions and classroom emotions were assessed separately…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homework, Educational Practices, Grade 11
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Schwinger, Malte; Steinmayr, Ricarda; Spinath, Birgit – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The self-regulation of motivation represents a key feature of self-regulated learning. Recent studies have documented that students use a variety of strategies to sustain their learning motivation and that most of these strategies have positive effects. However, less is known about how students integrate the various motivational strategies into an…
Descriptors: College Students, Motivation Techniques, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation
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Steinmayr, Ricarda; Bipp, Tanja; Spinath, Birgit – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
Goal orientations are thought to be an important predictor of scholastic achievement. The present paper investigated the joint influence of goal orientations, intelligence, and personality on school performance in a sample of N=520 11th and 12th graders (303 female; mean age M=16.94 years). Intelligence, the Big Five factors of personality…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation
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Steinmayr, Ricarda; Ziegler, Mattias; Trauble, Birgit – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
Research in clinical samples suggests that the relationship between intelligence and academic achievement might be moderated by sustained attention. The present study aimed to explore whether this interaction could be observed in a non-clinical sample. We investigated a sample of 11th and 12th grade students (N = 231). An overall performance score…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Grade 11
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Schwinger, Malte; Steinmayr, Ricarda; Spinath, Birgit – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
It was assumed that the effect of motivational regulation strategies on achievement is mediated by effort management and moderated by intelligence. A sample of 231 11th and 12th grade German high-school students provided self-reports on their use of motivational regulation strategies and effort management and completed an intelligence test.…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Grade Point Average, Learning Strategies, Intelligence Tests
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Steinmayr, Ricarda; Spinath, Birgit – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
The present study examined to which extent different motivational concepts contribute to the prediction of school achievement among adolescent students independently from intelligence. A sample of 342 11th and 12th graders (age M = 16.94; SD = .71) was investigated. Students gave self-reports on domain-specific values, ability self-perceptions,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Prediction, Grade 12
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Hong, Eunsook; Peng, Yun; Rowell, Lonnie L. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
The study examined differences in students' reported homework value, motivation, and metacognitive strategy use during homework completion among two grades, gender, and three achievement levels. Differences among six homework self-regulation constructs (utility value, intrinsic value, effort, persistence, planning, and self-checking) were also…
Descriptors: Homework, Achievement, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries