Krysti N. Turnquest, Weihua Fan, Virginia Snodgrass Rangel, Nazly Dyer, Allison Master
{"title":"Achievement emotions predict transfer student academic success","authors":"Krysti N. Turnquest, Weihua Fan, Virginia Snodgrass Rangel, Nazly Dyer, Allison Master","doi":"10.1007/s11218-023-09858-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09858-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Transfer students comprise half of all undergraduate students, yet their educational experiences may differ in meaningful ways from those of traditional students. Importantly, the transfer student population is diverse and not monolithic. Achievement emotions, which occur in an iterative pattern with past experiences informing current and future emotions, are particularly understudied within the transfer population. This survey study (<i>N</i> = 721) examines how diverse transfer students’ enjoyment and anxiety achievement emotions relate to GPA and term-to-term persistence. Results of the study showed that both anxiety and enjoyment emotions predicted term GPA and persistence for transfer students. However, when controlling for anxiety emotions, enjoyment emotions were no longer a significant predictor. These relations differed across demographic groups. Achievement emotions are an integral part of transfer students’ experiences in higher education, creating opportunities for institutions to improve their students’ educational outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":51467,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology of Education","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138527377","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}
Annalisa Soncini, Maria Cristina Matteucci, Fabrizio Butera
{"title":"Errors: Springboard for learning or tool for evaluation? Ambivalence in teachers’ error-related beliefs and practices","authors":"Annalisa Soncini, Maria Cristina Matteucci, Fabrizio Butera","doi":"10.1007/s11218-023-09867-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09867-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Teachers’ beliefs about students’ errors are influenced by structural factors and by other beliefs towards education and students that teachers may hold. The literature on this topic has provided some evidence and some mixed results. Furthermore, some structural aspects related to errors have not been considered in framing teachers’ beliefs about errors, such as the use of grades as a classroom assessment practice, which is strongly related to errors in testing situations. Based on these premises, this study aimed to explore teachers’ beliefs about errors and the practices teachers report using to deal with students’ errors in the classroom and teachers’ beliefs about the interdependence between grades and errors. Italian teachers (<i>N</i> = 33) from primary, middle, and secondary schools had been interviewed and the qualitative data were analysed through reflexive thematic analysis. The results showed that, according to teachers, errors acquire different meanings in the learning process, which are related to the roles they play in fostering or not learning. Furthermore, in describing these roles teachers reported to use specific practices to deal with students’ errors. Finally, teachers acknowledged that classroom assessment based on grades has a negative interdependency with errors that makes it difficult to present errors as a fruitful part of learning both in learning and testing situations. Our results reveal the ambivalence of teachers’ beliefs about errors and shed light on the challenges the grading evaluation system poses to teachers.</p>","PeriodicalId":51467,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology of Education","volume":"68 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138527403","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":"Teachers’ support for growth mindset and its links with students’ growth mindset, academic engagement, and achievements in lower secondary school","authors":"Lene Vestad, Edvin Bru","doi":"10.1007/s11218-023-09859-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09859-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Academic engagement has been shown to deteriorate in lower secondary school, and it is necessary to find ways to prevent this so that students’ engagement and achievements do not decline irrevocably. Teacher support for growth mindset (TSGM) is likely to influence students’ mindsets while also promoting academic engagement and achievement. This cross-sectional study first examined the extent to which lower secondary school students (<i>N</i> = 1608) perceived their teachers’ classroom pedagogy as supportive of their growth mindset and students’ growth mindset beliefs. The study’s main purpose was to test a latent structural equation model specifying that perceived TSGM is directly related to students’ growth mindset, directly and indirectly related to academic engagement (behavioral and emotional), and indirectly related to academic achievement. Students’ perceived growth mindset and academic engagement thus served as intermediate variables. The results verified that TSGM was indeed related to growth mindset and academic engagement, the latter both directly and via students’ perceived growth mindset. Furthermore, TSGM was also related to academic achievement via students’ growth mindset and academic engagement. The results suggest that TSGM can facilitate students’ growth mindset and academic engagement and, thereby, achievement in lower secondary school, a period during which students may struggle with academic motivation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51467,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology of Education","volume":"20 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138527381","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":"Teachers’ prosociality and well-being at work: The mediating role of teacher engagement in family–school partnerships","authors":"Sittipan Yotyodying, Swantje Dettmers, Kathrin Jonkmann","doi":"10.1007/s11218-023-09873-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09873-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Past research provided strong evidence that positive family–school partnerships were not only beneficial for students’ school success, but they also helped to promote parental involvement in schooling. However, relatively little is known about teachers’ reasons for becoming engaged in family–school partnerships and the benefits of their engagement. In fact, the role of teachers in family–school partnerships requires prosocial actions (e.g., helping, sharing, feeling empathy). As guided by self-determination theory, previous studies suggest that prosocial-oriented persons tend to take prosocial actions and these actions tend to promote a social connection, thereby promoting well-being. To the best of our knowledge, this assumption has not been applied to research on family–school partnerships yet. The aim of this study was to examine whether teachers’ prosociality would be associated with their well-being at work (i.e., job satisfaction, work-related self-esteem) and whether this connection would be mediated by teacher engagement in family–school partnerships. Using the framework of the Vodafone Foundation Germany, we focused on two important aspects of teacher engagement: effective communication and educational cooperation. A total of 190 teachers (72% females; mean age: 44.78 years) participated in an online-survey. In line with SDT, teachers’ prosociality was associated with greater well-being at work even after controlling for teachers’ background (age, gender, experience, school track). As expected, this connection was partially mediated by teacher engagement in family–school partnerships. The results and implications of the present study are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51467,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology of Education","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138527387","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}
Lennart Van Eycken, Jannick Demanet, Mieke Van Houtte
{"title":"Teachers’ efficacy, trust, and students’ features: Internal and external forces affecting teachers’ teachability perceptions","authors":"Lennart Van Eycken, Jannick Demanet, Mieke Van Houtte","doi":"10.1007/s11218-023-09865-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09865-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Teachability perceptions reflect teachers’ perceptions of students’ cognitive-motivational behaviors, personal social behaviors, and school-appropriate behaviors. Teachers in schools with more students with a low socioeconomic status (SES) or in schools with more boys have been shown to perceive students as less teachable. It remains to be seen whether teacher characteristics, specifically efficacy or trust, buffer against lower teachability perceptions in challenging school contexts. A multilevel analysis was carried out on data of 1247 teachers in 59 Flemish schools (2012–2013). Lower teachability perceptions were found in low-SES schools and schools with more boys. Efficacious teachers perceived their students as teachable, but teacher efficacy did not buffer against lower teachability perceptions in low-SES schools or in schools with more boys. Teacher trust, on the other hand, does buffer lower teachability perceptions in schools with more boys. This finding demonstrates that trusting teacher-student relationships might be a key factor to overcome between-school differences in teacher perceptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51467,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology of Education","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138527376","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}
Hamed Mohammad Hosseini, Ali Derakhshesh, Jalil Fathi, Sepideh Mehraein
{"title":"Examining the relationships between mindfulness, grit, academic buoyancy and boredom among EFL learners","authors":"Hamed Mohammad Hosseini, Ali Derakhshesh, Jalil Fathi, Sepideh Mehraein","doi":"10.1007/s11218-023-09860-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09860-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51467,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology of Education","volume":"55 17","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134902950","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}
Linlin Jiang, Bihua Zhao, Junqiao Guo, Wenqiang Sun, Wenxin Hu
{"title":"Perceived teacher unfairness and school bullying victimization of senior-grade pupils: The mediating effect and gender difference of the sense of school belonging","authors":"Linlin Jiang, Bihua Zhao, Junqiao Guo, Wenqiang Sun, Wenxin Hu","doi":"10.1007/s11218-023-09861-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09861-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51467,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology of Education","volume":"40 26","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136348493","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":"Associations between perceived teacher emotional support and externalizing problem behaviors among Chinese rural adolescent","authors":"Xingchen Zhu, Haohan Zhao, Wencan Li","doi":"10.1007/s11218-023-09864-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09864-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51467,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology of Education","volume":"8 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136282446","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}
Jessica Wise Younger, Zoe D’Esposito, Irene S. Geng, Stephanie L. Haft, Kristine D. O’Laughlin, Joaquin A. Anguera, Silvia A. Bunge, Emilio E. Ferrer, Fumiko Hoeft, Bruce D. McCandliss, Jyoti Mishra, Miriam Rosenberg-Lee, Adam Gazzaley, Melina R. Uncapher
{"title":"Growth mindset as a protective factor for middle schoolers at academic risk","authors":"Jessica Wise Younger, Zoe D’Esposito, Irene S. Geng, Stephanie L. Haft, Kristine D. O’Laughlin, Joaquin A. Anguera, Silvia A. Bunge, Emilio E. Ferrer, Fumiko Hoeft, Bruce D. McCandliss, Jyoti Mishra, Miriam Rosenberg-Lee, Adam Gazzaley, Melina R. Uncapher","doi":"10.1007/s11218-023-09863-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09863-2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Growth mindset has been shown to predict academic achievement in a variety of student populations, though the strength of the relationship can vary depending on the characteristics of the students examined. Using a large-scale sample of middle school students from a diverse district in the United States, we examine how multiple facets of students’ experiences and background characteristics may interact to impact the relation between mindset and academic achievement. We consider whether the risk factors of socioeconomic status (including a student’s daily experience of that status) and recent school transition interacted with mindset in predicting academic achievement. We show that mindset is most predictive of academic achievement in students with two academic risk factors. These results highlight the importance of context when considering how mindset might be used to improve academic achievement for students at the greatest academic risk.","PeriodicalId":51467,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology of Education","volume":" 32","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135244351","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":"Social rejection from the perspective of latency-age children: Moral failing or normative phenomenon?","authors":"Hannah Fisher-Grafy, Rinat Halabi","doi":"10.1007/s11218-023-09853-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09853-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51467,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology of Education","volume":"9 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135973401","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}