This meta-analysis provides an extensive and organized summary of intervention studies in
education that are grounded in motivation theory. We identified 74 published and …

One way to increase students' participation in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) fields is to target their motivation. Researchers have conducted a …

Motivational interventions grounded in Eccles and colleagues' situated expectancy-value
theory (SEVT) can promote students' motivational beliefs and academic performance …

Achievement goal theory includes both personal motivational features (achievement goals)
and contextual features (goal structures). The theory holds that the prevailing goal structures …

Students frequently experience various types of motivation and emotion that contribute to
their engagement and learning. However, translating research on motivation and emotion …

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 …

Achievement goal theory originally defined performance-approach goals as striving to
demonstrate competence to outsiders by outperforming peers. The research, however, has …

Student cognition and motivation, as well as institutional policies, determine student course
grades and retention in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors …

Understanding student motivation, and its relationship to learning outcomes, is a central task
for both researchers and practitioners. The expectancy-value framework offers a …

Two studies were conducted with distinct samples to investigate how motivational beliefs
cohere and function together (ie, motivational profiles) and predict academic adjustment …