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Direct linkGalyon, Charles E.; Blondin, Carolyn A.; Yaw, Jared S.; Nalls, Meagan L.; Williams, Robert L. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
This study examined the relationship of academic self-efficacy to engagement in class discussion and performance on major course exams among students (N = 165) in an undergraduate human development course. Cluster analysis was used to identify three levels of academic self-efficacy: high (n = 34), medium (n = 91), and low (n = 40). Results…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy, Student Participation
Peleg, Ora – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between social anxiety and social adaptation among adolescents. This is the first study to research these parameters among three age groups: early, middle and late adolescence. On the whole, a negative relation was found between social anxiety and social adaptation. Specifically, for adolescents…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, Age, Late Adolescents, Early Adolescents
Jurdi, Rozzet; Hage, H. Sam; Chow, Henry P. H. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
This paper identifies those behaviours that students perceive to be academically dishonest and sheds light on several demographic, academic and situational factors that predict students' perceptions of academic dishonesty. Data for this investigation were obtained through self-administered questionnaires from a sample of 321 undergraduate students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Ethics
Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Kipritsi, Eirini – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between bullying, victimization and a number of social-emotional variables such as trait emotional intelligence, empathy and self-efficacy in 206 elementary school 6th graders in Greece. Results indicated that boys reported significantly more direct and indirect bullying behaviors…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Bullying, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries
DeFreitas, Stacie Craft – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
First-year African American and European American college students were surveyed to examine ethnic differences in how their social cognitive beliefs (self-efficacy and outcome expectations) influenced their academic achievement. It was hypothesized that outcome expectations may better explain academic achievement for African Americans due to the…
Descriptors: African Americans, College Freshmen, Self Efficacy, Ethnic Groups
Kuhnen, Ulrich; van Egmond, Marieke C.; Haber, Frank; Kuschel, Stefanie; Ozelsel, Amina; Rossi, Alexis L.; Spivak, Youlia – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
The current study investigated the value of Socratic classroom communication (e.g., critical debate and challenging each other on content matters) among students from various cultures (clustered into Western Europeans, Eastern Europeans and Non-Europeans) and from members of faculty at an international university in Germany. Students from Western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, International Schools, Cultural Differences
Walker, Christopher O. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
The goal of the current study was to examine the predictive relationships among a set of cognitive-motivational variables that have been found in previous studies to support academic achievement. Student perception of a classroom's achievement goal structure (classroom mastery, classroom performance-approach, classroom performance-avoidance) was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation, Predictor Variables
Wasylkiw, Louise; Currie, Michael – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
Drawing from learning and attitude theories, the current investigation explores the effect of media on students' attitudes. Study 1 was a content analysis of 34 films classified as university-themed comedies and showed that such films highlighted risk-taking (e.g., alcohol consumption) and minimized the importance of academics (e.g., studying).…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Drinking, Content Analysis
Gillet, Nicolas; Vallerand, Robert J.; Lafreniere, Marc-Andre K. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
The main purpose of the present research was to investigate school intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and amotivation as a function of age in a sample of 1,600 elementary and high school students aged 9-17 years. First, results revealed a systematic decrease in intrinsic motivation and self-determined extrinsic motivation from age 9 to 12 years,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Elementary School Students, High School Students, Incentives
Boswell, Stefanie S. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
This study investigated differences in university students' academic entitlement (AE) by demographic group (sex, college class, college generational status) as well as AE's relationship with self-efficacy for college coursework and social networking. It also investigated predictors of AE in first-generation (FG) students and continuing-generation…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Social Networks, College Students, Undergraduate Students
Rucker, Margaret H.; Haise, Carrie L. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
This study was designed to investigate the effects of strength of descriptors in teaching evaluation items on global ratings of the instructor and the course. Six teaching evaluation forms were selected for this study with items that varied in either the descriptor in the item stem or the descriptors labeling the scale points. The forms were…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Statistical Analysis, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teaching Methods
Kelly, Sean; Carbonaro, William – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
In an effort to understand teacher-student relationships much research has investigated how teacher expectations of student performance in the classroom affect achievement growth. However, little research has focused on how teacher expectations of students' educational attainment are formed. In this paper, we examine how students' high school…
Descriptors: Evidence, Teacher Expectations of Students, Graduation, Educational Attainment
Areepattamannil, Shaljan – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
The present study examined the mediational role of academic motivation in the association between school self-concept and school achievement among 355 Indian immigrant adolescents in Canada and 363 Indian adolescents in India. Surveys were administered among Grades 9-12 students in Canada and India to assess their academic self-concepts, academic…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Incentives, Academic Achievement, Motivation
Federici, Roger A.; Skaalvik, Einar M. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore relations between principals' self-efficacy, burnout, job satisfaction and principals' motivation to quit. Principal self-efficacy was measured by a recently developed multidimensional scale called the Norwegian Principal Self-Efficacy Scale. Burnout was measured by a modified version of the Maslach Burnout…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Motivation
Pretsch, Johanna; Flunger, Barbara; Schmitt, Manfred – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
The resilience concept has often been criticized as simply reflecting the absence of neuroticism (i.e. vulnerability to stress and negative affectivity). Challenging this point of view, the aim of this study was to show that resilience could predict well-being in teachers above and beyond neuroticism. By contrast, we expected that resilience would…
Descriptors: Employees, Fatigue (Biology), Job Satisfaction, Well Being
