ERIC Number: EJ1143051
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Jun
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Instructional Characteristics in Mathematics Classrooms: Relationships to Achievement Goal Orientation and Student Engagement
Lazarides, Rebecca; Rubach, Charlott
Mathematics Education Research Journal, v29 n2 p201-217 Jun 2017
This longitudinal study examined relationships between student-perceived teaching for meaning, support for autonomy, and competence in mathematic classrooms (Time 1), and students' achievement goal orientations and engagement in mathematics 6 months later (Time 2). We tested whether student-perceived instructional characteristics at Time 1 indirectly related to student engagement at Time 2, via their achievement goal orientations (Time 2), and, whether student gender moderated these relationships. Participants were ninth and tenth graders (55.2% girls) from 46 classrooms in ten secondary schools in Berlin, Germany. Only data from students who participated at both timepoints were included (N = 746 out of total at Time 1 1118; dropout 33.27%). Longitudinal structural equation modeling showed that student-perceived teaching for meaning and support for competence indirectly predicted intrinsic motivation and effort, via students' mastery goal orientation. These paths were equivalent for girls and boys. The findings are significant for mathematics education, in identifying motivational processes that partly explain the relationships between student-perceived teaching for meaning and competence support and intrinsic motivation and effort in mathematics.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Goal Orientation, Learner Engagement, Longitudinal Studies, Grade 9, Grade 10, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Structural Equation Models, Student Motivation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 9; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; High Schools; Grade 10
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany (Berlin)
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