Academic motivation of adolescents

Few academic issues are of greater concern to teachers, parents, and school administrators than the academic motivation of the adolescents in their care. There are good reasons for this concern. Students who are academically motivated perform better in school, value their schooling, are future-orien...

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Other Authors Pajares, Frank (Editor), Urdan, Timothy C. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2002]
SeriesAdolescence and education.
Subjects
Motivation in education.
High school teaching.
Middle school teaching.
Education > Educational Psychology.
Educational psychology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918117431
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-554-7
Physical Description1 online resource (388 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Achieving self-regulation : the trial and truimph of adolescence / Barry J. Zimmerman
  • Self-efficacy and adolescents' motivation / Dale H. Schunk and Samuel D. Miller
  • Adolescents' expectansies for success and achievement task values during the middle and high school years / Allan Wigfield and Stephen Tonks
  • The pivotal role of frames of reference in academic self-concept formation : the "big fish-little pond" effect / Herbert W. Marsh and Rhonda G. Craven
  • Adolescents' achievement goals : situating motivation in sociocultural contexts / Avi Kaplan and Martin L. Maehr
  • Rewards and intrinsic motivation : a needs-based developmental perspective / Martin V. Covington
  • What adolescents need : a self-determination theory perspective on development within families, school, and society / Jennifer G. La Guardia and Richard M. Ryan
  • From duty to desire : the role of students' future time perspective and instrumentality perceptions for study motivation and self-regulation / Willy Lens, Joke Simons, and Siegfried Dewitte
  • Interest and adolescence / Suzanne Hidi and Mary Ainley
  • Social determinants of public behavior of middle school youth : perceived peer norms and need to be accepted / Jaana Juvonen and R. Jean Cadigan
  • Development and consequences of stereotype vulnerability in adolescents / Joshua Aronson and Catherine Good
  • Studying motivation to learn during early adolescence : a holistic perspective / Robert W. Roeser and Mollie Galloway.

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