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Competitive and Cooperative Practices in Education: How Teachers' Beliefs in School Meritocracy Are Related to Their Daily Practices with Students
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Darnon, Céline; Jury, Mickaël; Goudeau, Sébastien; Portex, Marine – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
Teachers' daily competitive and cooperative practices impact students' motivation and academic achievement. The present research was conducted among French in-service teachers. Our goal was to examine one of the predictors of the use of competitive and cooperative pedagogical practices by teachers: their belief in school meritocracy. A sample of…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Competition
Turning the Gender Tables: Evidence of Students' Awareness of a Reversal in Gender Status between Academic and Occupational Contexts
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Sicard, Alyson; Martinot, Delphine; Toczek, Marie-Christine; Pironom, Julie; Darnon, Céline – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2021
This study investigates young people's awareness of gender differences in achievement and their reversal between educational and occupational contexts. Girls are generally more academically successful than boys but men still enjoy a superior position in the professional world. The present study therefore aimed to determine whether students were…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, College Students, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Are Performance-Avoidance Goals Always Deleterious for Academic Achievement in College? The Moderating Role of Social Class
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Bruno, Alisée; Jury, Mickaël; Toczek-Capelle, Marie-Christine; Darnon, Céline – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
Abundant research has shown that the endorsement of performance-avoidance goals in academic contexts is associated with negative outcomes, including poor academic achievement. The present study tests students' social class as a moderator of the relationship between performance-avoidance goals and achievement. Two hundred thirty students (106…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Class, Educational Attainment, Parent Background
The Social Utility of Performance-Approach Goals in a Selective Educational Environment
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Jury, Mickaël; Darnon, Céline; Dompnier, Benoit; Butera, Fabrizio – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2017
According to the recent research, the educational system fulfills both an educational function (i.e., teaching and training students) and a selection function (i.e., determining students' future position in the social hierarchy), particularly in higher education. It has been argued that in the university system the selection function provides a…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, College Admission, Social Structure
From Social Class to Self-Efficacy: Internalization of Low Social Status Pupils' School Performance
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Wiederkehr, Virginie; Darnon, Céline; Chazal, Sébastien; Guimond, Serge; Martinot, Delphine – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2015
Previous research has largely documented that socioeconomic status (SES) is a strong and consistent predictor of pupils' school performance in several countries. In this research, we argue that children internalize the SES achievement gap in the form of a lower/higher sense of school self-efficacy. In two studies, teenaged students' (Study 1) and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Socioeconomic Status, Social Class, Achievement Gap