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Author: Yifei Wu (MEd) Publisher: ISBN: Category : Motivation in education Languages : en Pages : 250
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Motivation predicts variation in students’ academic performance, but the association is usually at best moderate. One possible explanation is that students with different mixes or profiles of motivational variables change the weak explanatory power of the variables. Motivation profiles may also systematically differ under different cultural contexts, with some research suggesting that highly consistent profiles (as opposed to mixed value profiles) are more evident in Asian jurisdictions. In the current study, a person-centred approach analysed students' motivation profiles in the 2015 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) science survey in seven jurisdictions (Australia, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Singapore). Latent profile analysis was conducted to create motivational profiles in terms of three motivation variables (i.e., confidence, value, and interest) using tidyLPA in each jurisdiction. Consistent versus mixed profiles were determined by the effect size (Cohen’s d) between the highest and lowest mean of motivation variables within each profile. MANOVA was used to analyse the characteristics of different profiles to examine whether people in each profile are different from each other. Results indicated Asian jurisdictions do not have just consistent profiles. Moreover, profiles with higher enjoyment and confidence towards science were strongly associated with academic performance and socioeconomic home resources. Enjoyment was a consistently better predictor of science achievement across all jurisdictions studied.
Author: Yifei Wu (MEd) Publisher: ISBN: Category : Motivation in education Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
Motivation predicts variation in students’ academic performance, but the association is usually at best moderate. One possible explanation is that students with different mixes or profiles of motivational variables change the weak explanatory power of the variables. Motivation profiles may also systematically differ under different cultural contexts, with some research suggesting that highly consistent profiles (as opposed to mixed value profiles) are more evident in Asian jurisdictions. In the current study, a person-centred approach analysed students' motivation profiles in the 2015 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) science survey in seven jurisdictions (Australia, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Singapore). Latent profile analysis was conducted to create motivational profiles in terms of three motivation variables (i.e., confidence, value, and interest) using tidyLPA in each jurisdiction. Consistent versus mixed profiles were determined by the effect size (Cohen’s d) between the highest and lowest mean of motivation variables within each profile. MANOVA was used to analyse the characteristics of different profiles to examine whether people in each profile are different from each other. Results indicated Asian jurisdictions do not have just consistent profiles. Moreover, profiles with higher enjoyment and confidence towards science were strongly associated with academic performance and socioeconomic home resources. Enjoyment was a consistently better predictor of science achievement across all jurisdictions studied.
Author: Norbert M. Seel Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1441914277 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 3643
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Over the past century, educational psychologists and researchers have posited many theories to explain how individuals learn, i.e. how they acquire, organize and deploy knowledge and skills. The 20th century can be considered the century of psychology on learning and related fields of interest (such as motivation, cognition, metacognition etc.) and it is fascinating to see the various mainstreams of learning, remembered and forgotten over the 20th century and note that basic assumptions of early theories survived several paradigm shifts of psychology and epistemology. Beyond folk psychology and its naïve theories of learning, psychological learning theories can be grouped into some basic categories, such as behaviorist learning theories, connectionist learning theories, cognitive learning theories, constructivist learning theories, and social learning theories. Learning theories are not limited to psychology and related fields of interest but rather we can find the topic of learning in various disciplines, such as philosophy and epistemology, education, information science, biology, and – as a result of the emergence of computer technologies – especially also in the field of computer sciences and artificial intelligence. As a consequence, machine learning struck a chord in the 1980s and became an important field of the learning sciences in general. As the learning sciences became more specialized and complex, the various fields of interest were widely spread and separated from each other; as a consequence, even presently, there is no comprehensive overview of the sciences of learning or the central theoretical concepts and vocabulary on which researchers rely. The Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative coverage of the specific terms mostly used in the sciences of learning and its related fields, including relevant areas of instruction, pedagogy, cognitive sciences, and especially machine learning and knowledge engineering. This modern compendium will be an indispensable source of information for scientists, educators, engineers, and technical staff active in all fields of learning. More specifically, the Encyclopedia provides fast access to the most relevant theoretical terms provides up-to-date, broad and authoritative coverage of the most important theories within the various fields of the learning sciences and adjacent sciences and communication technologies; supplies clear and precise explanations of the theoretical terms, cross-references to related entries and up-to-date references to important research and publications. The Encyclopedia also contains biographical entries of individuals who have substantially contributed to the sciences of learning; the entries are written by a distinguished panel of researchers in the various fields of the learning sciences.
Author: UNESCO Publisher: UNESCO Publishing ISBN: 9231002333 Category : Languages : en Pages : 82
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This report aims to 'crack the code' by deciphering the factors that hinder and facilitate girls' and women's participation, achievement and continuation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and, in particular, what the education sector can do to promote girls' and women's interest in and engagement with STEM education and ultimately STEM careers.
Author: Michalis P. Michaelides Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030261832 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 149
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This open access book presents a person-centered exploration of student profiles, using variables related to motivation to do school mathematics derived from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data. Statistical cluster analysis is used to identify groups of students with similar motivational profiles, across grades and over time, for multiple participating countries. While motivational variables systematically relate to school outcomes, linear relationships can obscure the diverse makeup of student subgroups, each with varying combinations of motivation, emotions, and attitudes. In this book, a person-centered analysis of distinct and meaningful motivational profiles and their differences on sociodemographic variables and mathematics performance broadens understanding about the role that motivation characteristics play in learning and achievement in mathematics. Exploiting the richness of IEA’s TIMSS data from many countries, extracted clusters reveal consistent, as well as certain nuanced patterns that are systematically linked to sociodemographic and achievement measures. Student clusters with inconsistent motivational profiles were found in all countries; mathematics self-confidence then emerged as the variable more closely associated with average achievement. The findings demonstrate that teachers, researchers, and policymakers need to take into account differential student profiles, prioritizing techniques that target skill and competence in mathematics, in educational efforts to develop student motivation.
Author: Myint Swe Khine Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319163906 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 624
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This book presents innovations in teaching and learning science, novel approaches to science curriculum, cultural and contextual factors in promoting science education and improving the standard and achievement of students in East Asian countries. The authors in this book discuss education reform and science curriculum changes and promotion of science and STEM education, parental roles and involvement in children's education, teacher preparation and professional development and research in science education in the context of international benchmarking tests to measure the knowledge of mathematics and science such as the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and achievement in science, mathematics and reading like Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Among the high achieving countries, the performance of the students in East Asian countries such as Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and China (Shanghai) are notable. This book investigates the reasons why students from East Asian countries consistently claim the top places in each and every cycle of those study. It brings together prominent science educators and researchers from East Asia to share their experience and findings, reflection and vision on emerging trends, pedagogical innovations and research-informed practices in science education in the region. It provides insights into effective educational strategies and development of science education to international readers.
Author: Tim Urdan Publisher: IAP ISBN: 1607525542 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 384
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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-oriented in their academic pursuits, and possess the academic confidence and positive feelings of self-worth so necessary to increasing academic achievement. Because academically motivated students engage their schoolwork with confidence and interest, they are less likely to drop out of school, suffer fewer disciplinary problems, and prove resilient in the face of setbacks and obstacles. It is precisely because academic motivation is so essential to academic achievement that motivation has taken a place along with cognition as one of the most followed lines of inquiry in educational psychology. In this volume, we are fortunate to gather together some of the most eminent scholars who have written extensively about the academic motivation of adolescents. We are fortunate also in that they represent the varied theories and lines of inquiry that currently dominate research in this area. In all, we believe that in the dozen chapters that comprise this volume, the authors provide elegant insights regarding the academic and social motivation of adolescents that will prove of interest to researchers, students, teachers, school administrators, parents, policymakers, and all others who play a pivotal role or are otherwise invested in the lives of adolescents in today's society. It is our hope that these insights will not only further the conversation on adolescence and education, but will serve as the impetus for further research capable of generating the creative ideas, programs, and structures so necessary to better the lives of the young people in our care.
Author: Miguel A. Pereyra Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9460917402 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 328
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From the 23rd to 26th of November 2009 in La Palma island, in the Canaries, the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) organized an international symposium entitled PISA under Examination: Changing Knowledge, Changing Tests, and Changing Schools. During four days seventeen leading scholars of Europe and America presented their contributions to debate the different problematiques of the remarkable phenomenon represented by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment or PISA. PISA is not merely an educational event. It is also a media circus which involves the public rehearsal for reasons for failure or success; and even, in some cases, public and political and academic explanations about why 'failure' was not really that, and why 'success' was not really that either. At the centre of all these indications, we find the growing influence of international agencies on education and schooling which is decisively contributing to a marketisation of the field of education, in the context of an increasingly multilevel and fragmented arena for educational governance based on the formulation, the regulation and the transnational coordination and convergence of policies, buttressed at the same time by the diffusion of persuasive discursive practice. Organized in four sections entitled The Comparative Challenges of the OCDE PISA Programme, PISA and School Knowledge, The Assessment of PISA, School Effectiveness and the Socio-cultural Dimension, PISA and the Immigrant Student Question, and Extreme Visions of PISA: Germany and Finland, the contributions of this book offers a comprehensive approach of all these challenging and significant issues written from different and distinct research and academic traditions.
Author: Yifei Wu (MEd)
Author: Yifei Wu (MEd)
Author: Norbert M. Seel
Author: UNESCO
Author: James Hiebert
Author: Michalis P. Michaelides
Author: Myint Swe Khine
Author: Tim Urdan
Author: Jin Li
Author: Miguel A. Pereyra
Author: Kathleen J. Roth