{"title":"Academic self-concept, achievement, and goal orientations in different learning environments","authors":"Olga Steinberg, Stefan Kulakow, Diana Raufelder","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00825-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00825-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Stage-Environment Fit Theory underlines the role of learning environments and their match with students’ needs as crucial for students’ motivation and learning. This study explores the mediation role of goal orientations in the interplay of academic self-concept and achievement in mathematics and verbal domains in student-directed and teacher-directed learning environments. The sample consists of 1153 adolescent students (<i>M</i><sub><i>age t1</i></sub> = 13.97; <i>SD</i> = 1.37, 49% girls) from Germany. Multi-group cross-lagged panel analyses confirm the Reciprocal Effects Model for the student-directed learning environment only, as reciprocal relation of academic self-concept and grades over time has been found. The extension of the Reciprocal Effects Model with goal orientations as mediators could not be confirmed for any learning environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140302566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parents’ learning support and school attitudes in relation to adolescent academic identity and school performance in nine countries","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00827-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00827-4","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>An important question for parents and educators alike is how to promote adolescents’ academic identity and school performance. This study investigated relations among parental education, parents’ attitudes toward their adolescents’ school, parental support for learning at home, and adolescents’ academic identity and school performance over time and in different national contexts. Longitudinal data were collected from adolescents and their parents in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States). When adolescents were 16 years old, their mothers (<em>N</em> = 1083) and fathers (<em>N</em> = 859) provided data. When adolescents were 17 years old, 1049 adolescents (50% girls) and their mothers (<em>N</em> = 1001) and fathers (<em>N</em> = 749) provided data. Multiple-group path analyses indicated that, across cultures, higher parent education was associated with better adolescent school performance. Parents’ attitudes toward their adolescents’ school and parent support for learning in the home were not associated with adolescents’ school performance but were associated with academic identity. The findings suggest somewhat different pathways to school performance versus academic identity. Implications for helping parents and educators in different countries promote adolescents’ academic identity and achievement are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"He’s up to no good, is he? Teachers’ self-efficacy as related to gender role attitudes and schools’ sex composition","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00828-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00828-3","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Schools’ sex composition and gender role attitudes are often overlooked in teachers’ self-efficacy studies, while research suggests that gender role attitudes may color teachers’ perceptions of students. This study investigates the association of schools’ sex composition and teachers’ gender role attitudes with teachers’ self-efficacy in instructional strategies, classroom management and student engagement, and how this latter association might differ between schools with more boys or girls. A multilevel analysis was carried out on data of 1247 teachers in 59 schools (2012–2013). Teachers feel more efficacious in classroom management in schools with more boys, especially male teachers with traditional gender role attitudes. Male teachers with traditional gender role attitudes feel less efficacious in classroom management in mixed schools. Female teachers feel less efficacious in all dimensions when holding traditional gender role attitudes, regardless of schools’ sex composition. The results highlight the importance of addressing gender bias in teacher training in order to improve teachers’ self-efficacy across all dimensions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"150 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefan Pfänder, Elke Schumann, Philipp Freyburger, Heike Behrens, Anna Buchheim
{"title":"Participation practices in mother-child interactions: longitudinal case studies","authors":"Stefan Pfänder, Elke Schumann, Philipp Freyburger, Heike Behrens, Anna Buchheim","doi":"10.1007/s10212-023-00787-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-023-00787-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent years, Conversational Analysis (CA) has seen an increasing interest in longitudinal studies (Deppermann & Pekarek Doehler,2021). The recurrent experience of interactional practices leads interactants to develop routines that may sediment into entrenched patterns over time (Dreyer, 2022). Longitudinal CA thus aims to track the emergence and sedimentation of interactional practices over time. In this contribution, we analyse interactional practices of participation in play-situations. Participation in joint activities is a universal form of human sociality (Goodwin & Goodwin, 2005). Here, we focus on how children perform their own agentive participant’s work and how mothers support their children in doing so. Investigating a longitudinal data set of mother-child play-interactions at ages 1 and 5, we ask whether participation patterns emerge as early as in the first year and are sedimented in the fifth year, as well as whether the synchronisation of embodied action provides crucial resources for the achievement of active participation in joint activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"149 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140154493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge Chávez Rojas, Jaime Faure, Juan Pablo Barril, Jesus Almuna
{"title":"Construction of professional identity in novel teachers. Learning experiences: help or hindrance?","authors":"Jorge Chávez Rojas, Jaime Faure, Juan Pablo Barril, Jesus Almuna","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00824-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00824-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article offers the reader a socio-cultural examination of a series of fundamental processes related to the construction and development of the professional teaching identity. By way of illustration, we analyse 39 subjective learning experiences reported by 12 novice teachers in Chile. The objective is to examine aspects of their experiences that facilitated or hindered changes in their identity positions. Our results suggest that the processes involved in the construction and development of identity are closely linked to their assessments of certain specific aspects of their experiences. These include (i) the material and social conditions found in highly demanding work environments; (ii) certain socio-cultural characteristics such as vulnerability in educational contexts; (iii) personal learning trajectories; (iv) interactions with students or your own experiences as students; and (v) a series of other characteristics that are not part of the situation as such, but that nevertheless influence it, such as educational policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140124727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sound of silence: children’s own perspectives on their hearing and listening in classrooms with different acoustic conditions","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00819-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00819-4","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>In this study, we investigated primary school children’s perspectives on their hearing and listening in classrooms with different acoustic quality levels. The sample included 213 children. The children completed a self-report questionnaire rating how well they could hear and listen in various situations in classrooms with two different acoustic conditions: <em>Poor acoustic quality</em> (long reverberation time [Long RT]) versus <em>Adequate acoustic quality</em> (short reverberation time [Short RT]) equipped with a sound-absorbing system. The results showed that auditory perception in the two conditions depends on the child’s age, with only fourth- and fifth-grade children reporting benefits from classroom acoustic correction. Our study provides preliminary results on children’s perspectives regarding their hearing and listening experiences during school learning, drawing out the implications for the design and implementation of school metacognitive interventions aimed at improving children’s and teachers’ awareness of motivational-affective, regulative, and environmental aspects favoring listening at school.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140124872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: To choose or not to choose? Effects of choice in authentic context-based learning environments","authors":"Fabien Güth, Helena van Vorst","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00817-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00817-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140115511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Santiago Vicente, Rosario Sánchez, Beatriz Sánchez-Barbero, Mercedes Rodríguez-Sánchez, Marta Ramos
{"title":"Theoretical-methodological approaches and textbook design: analysis of arithmetic word problems in Spanish textbooks","authors":"Santiago Vicente, Rosario Sánchez, Beatriz Sánchez-Barbero, Mercedes Rodríguez-Sánchez, Marta Ramos","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00808-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00808-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Primary school textbooks can enhance the acquisition of arithmetic word problem solving skills by offering diverse problems based on their semantic-mathematical structure with targeted reasoning aids, including schematics highlighting their mathematical structure. While certain countries, such as the USA and Singapore, have made progress in improving the problems and aids found in their textbooks through the use of specific theoretical-methodological approaches, textbooks from other countries, such as Spain, have included a very limited variety of problems, with hardly any aids to reasoning. Recently, however, two of the most widely used Spanish publishers have released textbooks that adhere to these theoretical-methodological approaches. To assess whether these textbooks progressed past their predecessors in relevant aspects related to the resolution of arithmetic word problems, we conducted an analysis of the quantity of problems and their variety in terms of semantic-mathematical structure and level of difficulty, as well as the inclusion of schematic representations of their mathematical structure. The study demonstrated improvements among textbooks when publishers adopted a theoretical framework, suggesting that a reference framework could enhance textbook design. This is particularly relevant in countries such as Spain, where there are no applicable standards or official curricula for designing textbooks related to solving arithmetic word problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140054265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Students’ perceived authenticity and understanding of authentic research while experimenting in a non-formal learning setting","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00810-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00810-z","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Non-formal learning settings like out-of-school labs provide students with insights into authentic learning situations. For example, in physics, students are engaged in experimenting as an authentic method. However, increasing the authenticity in experimentation can lead to overwhelming demands and hinder concept development and does not even need to be perceived as more authentic. We investigated the role of authenticity in experimenting in an out-of-school lab. Specifically, we explored (a) what influence the level of guidance has on students’ perceived authenticity (RQ1), (b) which references students use in their assessment judging perceived authenticity (RQ2), and (c) to what extent perceived authenticity predicts students’ learning outcomes (RQ3). To address these issues, a mixed methods study was carried out. One hundred forty-two students of seventh and eighth grade experimented in small groups and investigated the pattern that occurs when different apertures are placed between various light sources and a screen. Students were randomly assigned to one of two variants of the learning setting. In the guided experimentation group, students performed five pre-designed experiments and one freely chosen experiment, while the self-determined experimenting students freely designed all six experiments. A questionnaire was administered for perceived authenticity and interviews were conducted about the experimentation process. The learning outcome was measured with a pre- and post-test. We found no significant difference in perceived authenticity and learning outcomes of the two groups. To explain this, we conducted and analyzed interviews in terms of students’ understandings of authentic research to determine the views their authenticity judgments were based on.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140054117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International comparative study of motivation: a commentary","authors":"Jacquelynne S. Eccles","doi":"10.1007/s10212-024-00820-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00820-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this commentary, I focus on an international, collaborative, longitudinal study of the development of elementary school students’ math motivation and performance across six countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Portugal, and Serbia. The investigators designed motivational questionnaires to assess student motivational beliefs defined quite broadly, teacher and student questionnaires to assess teacher beliefs and practices, and family questionnaires to assess parents’ beliefs and practices as well as perceptions of their children and then tested to reliability and validity of these measures across all six countries so that they could investigate both development within countries and generalizability across countries. I focus my comparative comments on the following themes that cut across the various studies: the gender, national and SES differences, the impact of teacher beliefs and practices, the impact of parents, and the testing hypotheses derived from various social cognitive motivational systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":47800,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychology of Education","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140044922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}