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Allen, Kelly; Kern, Margaret L.; Vella-Brodrick, Dianne; Hattie, John; Waters, Lea – Educational Psychology Review, 2018
Belonging is an essential aspect of psychological functioning. Schools offer unique opportunities to improve belonging for school-aged children. Research on school belonging, however, has been fragmented and diluted by inconsistency in the use of terminology. To resolve some of these inconsistencies, the current study uses meta-analysis of…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Student School Relationship, Individual Characteristics, Adolescents
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Miele, David B.; Wigfield, Allan – Educational Psychology Review, 2014
The authors examine two kinds of factors that affect students' motivation to engage in critical-analytic thinking. The first, which includes ability beliefs, achievement values, and achievement goal orientations, influences the "quantitative" relation between motivation and critical-analytic thinking; that is, whether students are…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Critical Thinking, Context Effect, Correlation
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Vlachou, Maria; Andreou, Eleni; Botsoglou, Kafenia; Didaskalou, Eleni – Educational Psychology Review, 2011
Bullying in schools has been identified as a serious and complex worldwide problem associated with negative short- and long-term effects on children's psychosocial adjustment (Smith 1999; Ttofi and Farrington, "Aggressive Behav" 34(4):352-368, 2008). Entering kindergarten is a crucial developmental step in many children's lives mainly because it…
Descriptors: Evidence, Bullying, Preschool Children, Age Differences