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Kitsantas, Anastasia; Cleary, Timothy J.; Whitehead, Aubrey; Cheema, Jehanzeb – Metacognition and Learning, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to (a) determine relationships among teacher contextual variables including support and cognitive activation, student motivational beliefs, engagement, and mathematics literacy and (b) to examine whether different types of motivational and behavioral engagement variables act as viable mediators between the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Cleary, Timothy J.; Kitsantas, Anastasia – School Psychology Review, 2017
The primary purpose of the current study was to use structural equation modeling to examine the relations among background variables (socioeconomic status, prior mathematics achievement), motivation variables (self-efficacy, task interest, school connectedness), self-regulated learning (SRL) behaviors, and performance in middle school mathematics…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Achievement
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Hiller, Suzanne E.; Kitsantas, Anastasia – School Science and Mathematics, 2014
The purpose of the present quasi-experimental study was to examine the impact of a horseshoe crab citizen science program on student achievement and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career motivation with 86 (n = 86) eighth-grade students. The treatment group conducted fieldwork with naturalists and collected data for a…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Animals, Science Instruction, STEM Education