Achievement motivation: What we know and where we are going

A Wigfield, K Muenks, JS Eccles - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
We review work on the development of children's and adolescents' achievement motivation,
focusing on recent advances in the empirical work in the field and commenting on the status …

[HTML][HTML] Which student and instructional variables are most strongly related to academic motivation in K-12 education? A systematic review of meta-analyses.

T Jansen, J Meyer, A Wigfield, J Möller - Psychological Bulletin, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Academic motivation is an essential predictor of school success in K-12 education.
Accordingly, many meta-analyses have examined variables associated with academic …

Need-support facilitates well-being across cultural, economic, and political contexts: A self-determination theory perspective

RB King, JY Haw, Y Wang - Learning and Instruction, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Self-determination theory (SDT) posits that teachers who engage in need-
supportive teaching through satisfying students' basic needs for autonomy, competence, and …

A situative turn in the conversation on motivation theories

SB Nolen - Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
In this commentary I take a situative turn in the theoretical conversation around the
question,“Why do people do what they do?” The first section describes in broad strokes what …

Parental influences on achievement motivation and student engagement

J Bempechat, DJ Shernoff - Handbook of research on student engagement, 2012 - Springer
Underachievement and school disengagement have serious consequences, both at
individual and societal levels. In this chapter, we adopt a strength-based perspective to …

Complex social ecologies and the development of academic motivation

EA Skinner, TA Kindermann, JW Vollet… - Educational Psychology …, 2022 - Springer
Although motivational theories agree that environmental factors (like interpersonal
relationships and pedagogical practices) are crucial in shaping students' motivational …

Academic motivation theories revisited: An interactive dialog between motivation scholars on recent contributions, underexplored issues, and future directions

AC Koenka - Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
In this article, I introduce the current special issue, which brings together leading scholars
who either initiated or played subsequent central roles in the inception and development of …

What is the role of race in educational psychology? A review of research in Educational Psychologist

R Kumar, J DeCuir-Gunby - Educational Psychologist, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Acknowledging that educational psychologists should be deliberate in integrating race-
related issues in their research, we aim to examine the extent to which articles published in …

Can educational psychology be harnessed to make changes for the greater good?

F López - Educational Psychologist, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract As the American Psychological Association and Division 15 committed to
addressing systemic racism after the 2020 summer of racial reckoning, orchestrated political …

Four guideposts toward an integrated model of academic motivation: Motivational resilience, academic identity, complex social ecologies, and development

EA Skinner - Educational Psychology Review, 2023 - Springer
The field of achievement motivation is concept and data rich, housing more than a dozen
major theories, all of which have withstood empirical scrutiny. Their very success, however …