Promoting the positive achievement motivation of young children in a regular Grade 2 classroom
Year: 1995
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This study compared the influence of math instruction minus motivation instruction (-M) and math instruction plus motivation instruction (+M ) on children's motivational orientation and learning.Participants were 38 public school students from 3 Grade 2 classrooms in the same school.Students ranged in age from 86 to 97 months (average age was 91.34 months).Nineteen students were assigned to each of the treatment conditions with 9 girls and 10 boys in the math instruction group and 8 girls and 11 boys in the math instruction plus motivation group.and seeing me through to the end. 1 am also incredibly thankful to her for her financial support through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada throughout this long process.Thanks to Lucy LeMare, the second member of my committee, for her calm and practicality which I relied on regularly to ground me.My thanks go out to many friends, who believed in me, supported me, and allowed me to rant and ramble at parties, around the campfire, on walks along the seawall, at "the Club", over dinner, at gallery openings!You know who you are.What you might not know is that each and everyone of you has contributed to this project.
Source: Summit (Simon Fraser University)
Author: Cindy Maria Bell
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W44316144