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Leonid, Parmaksiz; Kanonire, Tatjana – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2022
The Rasch/Guttman scenario (RGS) measurement approach is a promising test development methodology. The purpose of this study is to compare the RGS measure of primary school students' motivation against more traditional self-report scales. The Scenario Scale of Extrinsic Motivation toward Math (SSEM-M) and its traditional counterpart were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Learning Motivation, Mathematics Education
Alonzo, Dennis; Labad, Velma; Bejano, Jean; Guerra, Florence – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Despite the advancement of the conceptualisations of teacher assessment literacy, teachers' assessment practices remain relatively low due to misalignment between teachers' beliefs on assessment and principles of effective assessment practices. The current assessment reform in the Philippines has not gained significant traction despite the ongoing…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Student Evaluation
Mahmut Sami Yigiter – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2024
One of the main objectives of international large-scale assessments is to make comparisons between different countries, education policies, education systems, or subgroups. One of the main criteria for making comparisons between different groups is to ensure measurement invariance. The purpose of this study was to test the measurement invariance…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Skills, Grade 4, Grade 8
Karaman, Mehmet Akif; Smith, Robert – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
For decades, researchers have attempted to define and measure what motivates individuals to achieve. Numerous attempts have sought to measure achievement motivation by using self-report tests. The concepts of motivation and achievement motivation have a rich history of being discussed among different cultures. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
Yin, Hongbiao – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
With a sample of 4,646 undergraduate students from four universities in China, this study examined the psychometric qualities of a newly-adapted measurement, namely, the Online Motivation and Engagement Scale for university and college students, and investigated the characteristics of and differences in Chinese students' motivation and engagement…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Online Courses, Educational Technology, COVID-19
Tu, Chia-Ching; Yang, Dong; Mou, Yu Qing – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2022
This study examined the effect of Yunnan's ethnic minority college students' acculturation on their academic achievement under the risk of the Matthew effect. Additionally, the role played by learning motivation in the relationship between ethnic minority college students' acculturation and academic achievement was explored. A total of 403 valid…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students, College Students
Gungor, Metehan; Atalay Kabasakal, Kubra – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2020
Measurement invariance analyses are carried out in order to find evidence for the structural validity of the measurement tools used in the field of educational sciences and psychology. The purpose of this research is to examine the measurement invariance of Science Motivation and Self-Efficacy Model constructed by Instrumental Motivation to Learn…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Gender Differences
Donmus Kaya, Vildan; Kükey, Ebru – European Educational Researcher, 2022
This case study aims to examine the difficulties, and the ways to cope with these difficulties or the solution proposals for coping faced by middle school mathematics teachers during the Emergency Remote Education (ERE). The participants consisted of four online focus groups with eighteen mathematics teachers working in middle schools in Turkey.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
González-Gómez, David; Jeong, Jin Su; Cañada-Cañada, Florentina – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
Online formative assessment is still challenging although it is getting an increased attention as a significant tool for diagnosing and analysing students' motivation and achievement in various education domains. This research examines the effects of an online formative assessment tool (OFAT) about science motivation and achievement in second-year…
Descriptors: Internet, Formative Evaluation, Student Motivation, Science Achievement
Oppermann, Elisa; Brunner, Martin; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Anders, Yvonne – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
Young children, ages 5-6 years, develop first beliefs about science and themselves as science learners, and these beliefs are considered important precursors of children's future motivation to pursue science. Yet, due to a lack of adequate measures, little is known about young children's motivational beliefs about learning science. The present…
Descriptors: Young Children, Student Motivation, Beliefs, Science Education
Hernández-Torrano, Daniel; Courtney, Matthew G. R. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
Research in international large-scale assessment (ILSA) has become an increasingly popular field of study in education. Consequently, interest and debate in the field by practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and the public has grown over the past decades. This study adopts a descriptive bibliometric approach to map modern research on ILSA in…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Literature Reviews
Sánchez de Miguel, Manuel; Lizaso, Izarne; Hermosilla, Daniel; Alcover, Carlos-Maria; Goudas, Marios; Arranz-Freijó, Enrique – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Background: Research has shown that self-determination theory can be useful in the study of motivation in sport and other forms of physical activity. The Perceived Locus of Causality (PLOC) scale was originally designed to study both. Aim: The current research presents and validates the new PLOC-U scale to measure academic motivation in the…
Descriptors: Validity, Factor Analysis, Learning Motivation, Goodness of Fit
The Measurement of Motivation and Self-Concept within the Students' Approaches to Learning Framework
Ropovik, Ivan; Greger, David – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Motivation and self-concept count among the educationally most relevant factors and the evaluation of many educational interventions requires their valid measurement. The present study examined the psychometric properties of a shortened version of the Students' Approaches to Learning questionnaire measuring 10 distinct motivational and…
Descriptors: Measurement, Learning Motivation, Intervention, Self Concept
Hadjichambis, Andreas Ch.; Georgiou, Yiannis; Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, Demetra; Kyza, Eleni A.; Mappouras, Demetrios – Journal of Biological Education, 2016
Despite the importance of understanding how the human reproductive system works, adolescents worldwide exhibit weak conceptual understanding, which leads to serious risks, such as unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Studies focusing on the development and evaluation of inquiry-based learning interventions, promoting the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Gender Differences, Grade 7, Science Instruction
Baudson, Tanja Gabriele; Preckel, Franzis – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2016
Stereotyping of gifted students may not only hinder identification and actualization of potential but also personality development ("stigma of giftedness"). This is obvious in the case of negative stereotyping (e.g., the disharmony hypothesis, which sees gifted students as intellectually strong, but emotionally and socially inferior),…
Descriptors: Gifted, Academically Gifted, Stereotypes, Teacher Attitudes