This research synthesis explores how academic achievement relates to two main
components of self-regulated learning for students in elementary and secondary school …

This article provides an overview of definitions and measures related to school engagement.
The intent herein, is to explore the construct and measurement of school engagement and …

Young children who enjoy reading do it more often and they tend to become skilled at it.
Poor readers, by contrast, often display low motivation to read. One possible explanation of …

Two questions were investigated. First, are children with reading problems in first grade
more likely to experience behavior problems in third grade? Second, are children with …

The authors used a pretest—posttest control group design with random assignment to
evaluate whether early reading failure decreases children's motivation to practice reading …

In the present study, the relationship between students with and without learning disabilities
(LD) and different aspects of test anxiety was examined on a new multidimensional measure …

This study used qualitative methodology to investigate the self-efficacy beliefs of early
adolescents with learning disabilities (LD). We conducted a series of focus group interviews …

Three hundred twenty three students were recruited in order to investigate sex differences
on measures of statistics anxiety and learning strategies. Data was analyzed using …

In this article, information-processing type and gender differences in the interplay between
motivational aspects (ie, interest, persistence, test anxiety, and performance anxiety) and …

We examined how strongly motivation, metacognition, and psychopathology acted as
predictors of learning disabilities (LD). The results from five studies suggested that level of …