Background: The control-value theory of achievement emotions postulates that it is possible to affect achievement emotions by decreasing or increasing control and value appraisals. This implies that changes in the latter should result in changes in the former. However, the assumption has been rarely tested. Aims: This study aimed at verifying…

Background: Research on gender differences in intelligence has focused mostly on samples from Western countries and empirical evidence on gender differences from Southeast Asia is relatively sparse. Aims: This article presents results on gender differences in variance and means on a non-verbal intelligence test using a national sample of public…

Background: Both achievement goals and study processing strategies theories have been shown to contribute to the prediction of students' academic performance. Existing research studies (Fenollar, Roman, & Cuestas, 2007; Liem, Lau, & Nie, 2008; Simons, Dewitte, & Lens, 2004) amalgamating these two theoretical orientations in different causal models…

Background: Several studies have examined young primary school children's use of strategies when solving simple addition and subtraction problems. Most of these studies have investigated students' strategy use as if they were isolated processes. To date, we have little knowledge about how math strategies in young students are related to other…

Background: A program of research is needed that assesses the psychometric properties of instruments designed to quantify students' achievement goal orientations to clarify inconsistencies across previous studies and to provide a stronger basis for future research. Aim: We conducted traditional psychometric and modern Rasch-model analyses of the…

Background: Transition from comprehensive school to later educational tracks is challenging for many adolescents. The present three-wave longitudinal study conducted in Finland considers this issue from the perspective of school burnout. Background: Transition from comprehensive school to later educational tracks is challenging for many…

The relationship of several individual difference variables to achievement in college courses was investigated, using a sample of 500 freshmen and sophomores taking introductory psychology. (Editor)

Academic performance in three fields of study, engineering, physical sciences and languages, has been analysed by comparing the characteristics of successful students with those of the less successful and those who failed to graduate. (Editor)

The relationship between levels of academic achievement of first-year university students and various attitudinal, situational and mental health factors was examined. (Editor)

The EPI was administered to 136 full-time postgraduate Diploma in Education students. The relationships between personality, choice of method of assessment and achievement in four theory courses were investigated. (Editor)

An attempt is made to provide an interpretive framework for the findings of recent research on teaching at primary school level. A model of teaching/learning processes is outlined prior to an investigation of the empirical linkages between the element of the model. Implications of the model for teaching skills are also explored. (Editor/RK)

Data from the National Child Development Study are used to examine the relationship between school attendance, at the ages of 7 and 15, and reading and mathematics test scores and school behavior at age 16. Also examines the relationship between attendance and school adjustment as well as assessing the relative importance of poor attendance early…

Explores whether there is a relationship between the attitudinal correlates of academic achievement within a certain achievement group, e.g., the average-achievers, and the subjects' intellectual level. Or, in other words, are the attitudinal correlates of academic achievement in average-achievers of high intelligence same as in average-achievers…

The intention in this research was to collect instances of study skill in different situations, and to relate study activity to levels of understanding and academic performance. Also reanalyzes data described by Marton and Saljo (1976a) which led to the concepts of deep-level processing and surface processing as explanations of qualitative…

Attempts to learn whether or not there are differences in both academic achievement and the assumption of responsibility for academic success or failure as a function of open versus traditional classroom experience at the end of the third academic year. Also assess the contribution of the sex of pupil to differences in the above variables.…