Using Self-Assessment to Improve Student Learning synthesizes research on self-
assessment and translates it into actionable guidelines and principles for pre-service and in …

Research has found a relation between motivation and attributions for success and failure.
However, few studies have clarified the relationship of attributions to school achievement …

Within self-regulated learning, learners exercise agency by setting targets, formatively
monitoring progress, and evaluating results in ways which inform their own goal attainment …

Assessment is a concept familiar across the field of education and is inherent to the work of
professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. A multifaceted …

Competitiveness and cooperativeness are important predictors of social and learning
outcomes at school. Drawing on evidence suggesting that contexts with high income …

Underachievement and failure to complete school have long-term negative consequences
for students. Aspirations regarding completion of secondary school that predict achievement …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 103 (2) of Journal
of Educational Psychology (see record 2011-10421-007). In Figure 5, the eight curves …

Students' social and emotional development matters to their educational success.
Ubiquitous digital use in schooling creates new contexts for development, raising the …

Although there is extensive literature on the relationship between student motivation and
achievement, less is known about how secondary schools create conditions that enable …

This report has been compiled from data drawn from the 2009 NZCER National Survey of
Secondary Schools with some references to the 2006 and 2003 secondary surveys where …