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Beth Hosek; Anastasia Kitsantas; Shannon King; Roy Echeverria; Sahar Wahidi – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
The purpose of the present study was to explore the voices of high- and low-achieving middle school students around the function and utility of a student-engaged design learning how to learn intervention. The intervention was a year-long standard elective course in the curriculum in which all students enrolled during their time in middle school.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Rural Schools, Low Achievement, High Achievement
Eli Vibeke Eriksen; Lene Vestad; Edvin Bru; Simona C. S. Caravita – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
This longitudinal study applied latent change score (LCS) modeling to examine individual changes in students' (N = 1205) academic engagement (behavioral and emotional), social competencies (relationship skills and social awareness), and classroom relationships (emotional support from teachers and collaborative peer relations). Average changes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Interpersonal Competence, Learner Engagement
Fejes, József Balázs – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
Achievement goal theory research, which investigates students' perceptions of the classroom climate, has mainly focused on teacher practices from a deductive perspective. However, this appears to hinder a fuller understanding of all the factors that influence students' perceptions of the classroom goal structures (CGS). Therefore, using a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 7
Mauduy, Maxime; Bagneux, Virginie; Sénémeaud, Cécile – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
In school bullying, witnesses play a fundamental role because their defensive reactions can stop bullying situations. However, a great majority of witnesses remain passive despite their prodefense personal beliefs. To address this gap between witnesses' beliefs and behaviors, we developed and tested two social psychology strategies, namely, the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Audiences, Beliefs, Student Behavior
Khattab, Nabil; Madeeha, Muznah; Samara, Muthanna; Modood, Tariq; Barham, Areej – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
The main objective of this paper is to examine the role of students' aspirations and expectations in affecting school achievement among 7th and 8th grade students in Qatar's schools. The study draws on data collected in Qatari schools from a randomly selected sample of 841 students and their parents. The findings indicate that students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
Weissgerber, Sophia C.; Grünberg, Chawwah; Neufeld, Luisa; Steppat, Tobias; Reinhard, Marc-André – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
Math anxiety's negative effects on performance are well-documented. The interplay of math anxiety and mathematical competence regarding later performance is underexplored. We investigated whether math anxiety's detrimental effects on learning depend on previous mathematical competence. Hypothesizing a moderation effect, we expected that trait math…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Achievement
Wright, Michelle F.; Wachs, Sebastian – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2021
Objective: Little attention has been given to the relationship between cyber polyvictimization and academic outcomes (e.g., classroom misconduct, school readiness, academic performance, absenteeism, school behavioral problems), and the factors, such as parent social support, that buffer against the negative outcomes associated with experiencing…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Parent Influence, Longitudinal Studies, Computer Mediated Communication
Vestad, Lene; Bru, Edvin; Virtanen, Tuomo E.; Stallard, Paul N. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2021
This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate how perceived social-emotional competencies (SECs), relationship skills, emotional regulation, and the ability to structure schoolwork at school and at home were associated with academic efficacy belief (AEB) and emotional distress among 1142 Norwegian eighth-grade students. The students answered an…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Self Efficacy, Beliefs
Gao, Su; Long, Haiying; Li, Dan; Yang, Luxi – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2020
Over the past two decades, researchers consistently demonstrated the importance of science teaching approaches and student self-efficacy in influencing their science achievement. These findings have become the foundation of science education reform. However, empirical supports of these relationships are limited to direct relationships and…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Self Efficacy, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Alivernini, Fabio; Cavicchiolo, Elisa; Manganelli, Sara – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
The ever-increasing presence of immigrants in Italian schools make these contexts important for the study of young peoples' attitudes towards those who are new to a country. We analysed the metaphors regarding immigrants produced by a sample of 840 eighth-grade students. The results of a content analysis showed nine complex attitudes referring to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Student Attitudes
Plante, Isabelle; O'Keefe, Paul A.; Aronson, Joshua; Fréchette-Simard, Catherine; Goulet, Mélissa – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
This study used a novel approach to examine the link between gender ability stereotype endorsement and academic interests by examining not only stereotypes people hold "within" the domains of mathematics and language arts, but also "between" them. Grade 6 and 8 students (285 males, 363 females) reported their degree of…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Sex Stereotypes, Student Interests, Mathematics
Havik, Trude; Ertesvåg, Sigrun K. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
The aim of this study was to explore trajectories of teachers' instructional support as perceived by students during a national initiative to develop lower secondary schools. Grade eight and nine students (N = 815) from nine Norwegian schools participated in three waves of data collection within one-and-a-half academic years. Growth mixture model…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Student Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Secondary School Teachers
Chen, Xiaochen; Graham, Sandra – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2018
Asian American students often report lower self-esteem than their peers from other racial groups even though they are doing better academically. The current study attempted to explore this paradox from an attributional perspective. Academic achievement, self-esteem and attributions for academic failures (i.e., low ability and low effort) were…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, African American Students, White Students, Hispanic American Students
Skaalvik, Einar M.; Federici, Roger A.; Wigfield, Allan; Tangen, Truls N. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2017
Relations between 8th and 10th grade students' perceptions of classroom goal structures, task values, anxiety, help-seeking behavior, and effort in mathematics classes were examined. The authors investigated whether the associations between perceived goal structures and anxiety, help-seeking behavior, and effort are mediated through students'…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 10, Goal Orientation, Student Attitudes
Ulmanen, Sanna; Soini, Tiina; Pietarinen, Janne; Pyhältö, Kirsi – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2016
This study explores the complexity of emotionally engaging schoolwork among students by analysing the interrelation between the affective and the social dimensions of emotional engagement. The data were collected from 78 Finnish sixth-grade (aged 12-13 years) and 89 eighth-grade (aged 14-15 years) students using picture tasks. The results show…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Response, Learner Engagement, Grade 6
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