Abstract The United States has made a significant effort and investment in STEM education,
yet the size and the composition of the STEM workforce continues to fail to meet demand. It …

A review of 13 years of research into antecedents of university students' grade point average
(GPA) scores generated the following: a comprehensive, conceptual map of known …

Interest is a powerful motivational process that energizes learning, guides academic and
career trajectories, and is essential to academic success. Interest is both a psychological …

Many college students abandon their goal of completing a degree in science, technology,
engineering, or math (STEM) when confronted with challenging introductory-level science …

We replicated and extended prior research investigating a theoretically guided intervention
based on expectancy-value theory designed to enhance student learning outcomes (eg …

This research explores the influencing factors of learning satisfaction in blended learning.
Three dimensions are proposed: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and learning …

The purpose of this research was to develop and test a model of factors contributing to
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning and career orientation …

Many important learning tasks feel uninteresting and tedious to learners. This research
proposed that promoting a prosocial, self-transcendent purpose could improve academic …

The achievement goal construct has been central to the study of achievement motivation for
many decades. Theoretical and empirical work on achievement goals first appeared in the …

This explanatory sequential mixed methods study examined how belonging perceptions,
academic motivation, and engagement might mediate the relationship between academic …