The classroom learning environment plays a crucial role in promoting student motivation. With this in mind, this study investigates the relationship between classroom learning environments and student motivation via self-regulation as a mediator. We collected data from 2033 students and analyzed them using structural equation modeling. Task…

Motivational regulation is essential for effective learning when facing obstacles in higher education. Students failing to maintain (or increase) their motivation may be prone to dysfunctional learning behaviors, such as academic procrastination. Frequently, motivational challenges in an academic course of study arise from environmental conditions…

Since Maehr's (1974) pioneering work, motivation theory has acknowledged its cultural foundations. Yet dominant goal regulation frameworks often give limited attention to how systemic inequities shape students' self-regulation. Developed within paradigms that have often bracketed race and structural power, traditional motivation theories…

Elementary teachers likely have many opportunities to improve their science subject matter knowledge in the context of their everyday work. However, this has not been sufficiently explored in the literature. The purpose of this exploratory study is to investigate teachers' self-regulated learning of science subject matter knowledge as a result of…

Purpose: The evolving business landscape demands workers' adaptation to constant changes, with self-directed learning (SDL) playing a central role in this process. Despite this need, workers lack motivation in such learning. Therefore, this study aims to examine workers' motivation in SDL using self-determination theory (SDT) to explore how…

Given the growing concern regarding new teacher supply and the increasing demands for cultivating classroom-ready teachers, there is a pressing need to explore factors associated with pre-service teachers' wellbeing. Yet exploration of the relationships between pre-service teachers' motivation, self-beliefs, mental health, and job-related outcomes…

This study examined the associations between perfectionism, achievement goal orientations, and academic performance among 1,028 first-year university students in New Zealand. Using latent profile analysis, four distinct perfectionistic profiles were identified: (1) High-Range Mixed Perfectionists with High Family Pressure (high Personal Standards…

The L2 Motivational Self System (L2 MSS), proposed by Dörnyei two decades ago, has become the hegemonic model for explaining the motivational elements operating on second language learners. However, how these learning dispositions stimulate different types of motivation in favour of willingness to communicate (L2 WTC) remains largely…

Historical Black women teachers actively participated in the fight to abolish slavery while simultaneously, struggling for educational equity. This paper departs to address what inspired them to engage in these radical actions during the era of enslavement and its immediate afterlives. Drawing on close analysis of archival documents, this paper…

This mixed-methods study examined how the construction workforce perceives the value of industry-recognized credentials and how those perceptions influence career intentions, advancement, and participation in training. Conducted by the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER), the study integrated survey responses from 695…

This study explores the interconnected roles of intrinsic motivation and learning autonomy in shaping self-learners into effective leaders. Drawing on insights from peer-reviewed research obtained from reputable online databases such as Taylor & Francis and ScienceDirect, the paper synthesizes theoretical and empirical findings grounded in…

Purpose: Improving students' learning is dependent on students' participation, meaningfulness, and value of the teaching--learning process. This study explores students' learning experiences when undertaking the role of co-constructors and co- and self-regulators in a cooperative learning environment. Methods: The study included 110 school…

Effective communication is at the heart of good teaching, and one of the central tenets of effective communication is to know your audience. What often gets less attention is the need for good teachers to know "themselves" and consider how they are the same, or different from, their students. To build supportive relationships with…

The protean career orientation is descriptive of workers who show self-directedness and values-driven behaviors toward professional advancement. Such characteristics have been highly demanded from professionals in the past decades, evidencing their identification and development relevance. Considering that identifying construct structure and…

Recent findings suggest that preschoolers are capable of adapting cognitive control (CC) through bottom-up associative learning. However, it is not clear how motivational contextual triggers may influence this ability. This study investigated adaptive CC in a "hot" experimental context administering a modified version of the Balloon Analogue Risk…