How students switch on and switch off in mathematics: exploring patterns and predictors of (dis)engagement across middle school and high school

Using growth modeling, this study examined trajectories of ‘switching on’ (aspirations) and ‘switching off’ (disengagement) in mathematics across middle school and high school. In addition, guided by principles under expectancy-value theory, the study sought to determine the extent to which patterns of growth differed by motivation (self-efficacy and valuing) and socio-educational attributes (gender, language background, and achievement). The sample comprised 194 students from four schools who participated in three rounds of data collection across five academic years of their schooling, spanning middle school and high school. In the main, mathematics aspirations declined over time while mathematics disengagement increased. However, initial levels of aspirations and disengagement and their rates of change over time were impacted by motivational and socio-educational factors. Salient findings and their implications for educational assessment and practice are discussed.     

Assessing Motivation and Self-Regulation in Learning within a Predictive Design: Incorporating Systematic Elements of Change

This article comments on the target paper by Vollmeyer and Rheinberg. As the emphasis of this special issue is on the assessment of self-regulation in learning, my commentary will focus on the various aspects of the research design, measures, and analyses.     

ARCS动机模式在地理教学体系结构设计中的新尝试

地理在初中教学中一直占据着较重要的地位,但是从整体上来讲,学生却呈现出缺乏兴趣的现象,这就给初中地理教学带来了比较大的阻碍。为了解决这一问题,教师可在教学体系结构设计过程中应用ARCS动机模式,以有效激发学生的学习兴趣。文章对ARCS动机模式在初中地理教学体系结构设计中的新尝试进行分析。     

动机与化学实验——非智力因素与化学实验系列之一

动机是非智力因素的重要因素之一，学生做实验的客观条件，主观因素及自信心的训练与动机紧密相关。     

Interest: A unique motivational variable

In the first part of this article, I discuss motivational variables in general, and interest in specific and propose that because of its biological roots, interest is a unique motivational variable. Furthermore, it is suggested that to demonstrate the uniqueness of interest, neuroscientific findings need to be considered. In the second section of the paper, I argue that the impact of the neuroscientific literature in the areas of social, educational and cognitive psychology has not been appropriately recognized. To support this claim, links between selected neuroscientific findings and motivational variables in general and interest in specific are discussed. Finally, some of the educationally relevant implications of interest research supported by neuroscientific findings are considered.     

Reflections on Leadership: Theory,Experience, and Practice

This article, which was delivered as the Thirty-Sixth Annual Dudley Allen Sargent lecture at the 2017 conference of the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education (NAKHE), discusses transformational leadership theory as an effective approach to inspiring subordinates and creating a culture that results in a shared vision and common approach to a positive organizational future. Contrasting a transformational versus transactional approach, it uses both published papers and leadership reflections from many of NAKHE’s most successful emerging and experienced professionals to provide suggestions on leadership methods that can be incorporated to facilitate transformative change.     

Motivation of Emirati males and females to study at higher education in the United Arab Emirates

This article reports on a study into the motivation of young Emirati undergraduate students for studying in a higher education institution in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The participants were male and female undergraduate students in their first or second year of studying. The aim of the study was to examine their motivation using a framework that recognised the unique sociocultural context of the UAE. Data were analysed according to an adapted framework encompassing both Self-Determination Theory and Personal Investment theory. Self-Determination Theory was chosen due to its focus on different types of extrinsic motivation, and Personal Investment theory was chosen for its non-culture specific applicability. A major finding of the research is that an examination of motivation according to dichotomous relationships of intrinsic versus extrinsic, collectivist versus individualistic, self as individual versus self as part of society are over-simplistic in this specific context. A more useful paradigm is one in which the individual is influenced by personal and professional goals, as well as social and familial expectations. Unexpectedly, use of language (Arabic or English) did not influence the results. These findings will provide teachers and university administration with a better understanding of their students, and will replace certain stereotypes that teachers may have about their students and their motivation for studying.     

Effects of perceived autonomy support from social agents on motivation and engagement of Chinese primary school students: Psychological need satisfaction as mediator

Little research has simultaneously examined the differential effects of autonomy support from parents, teachers, and peers (social agents) on students’ psychological need satisfaction, motivation, and school engagement. Drawing from Self-Determination Theory, this study examined the joint effects of perceived autonomy support from these three social agents on psychological needs, motivation, and engagement of 614 Chinese primary school students. Results revealed that perceived autonomy support from parents, teachers, and peers positively and uniquely predicted student psychological need satisfaction. The effect was strongest for parental autonomy support, although a model constraining the paths from all three social agents to be equal fit equally well. Need satisfaction predicted greater self-determined motivation and student engagement and mediated the effects of all three social agents on student motivation and engagement. The model showed strong gender invariance. The results highlight the importance of targeting all three social agents in multi-level interventions that aim to optimize student motivation and school engagement.     

跨国并购企业的组织结构优化:最新动因与模式选择

经济全球化竞争的加剧使得跨国并购企业开始强调组织结构模式的优化。本文基于企业能力理论,以国际化战略与组织形态论、组织能力论、动态能力和组织学习论为逻辑起点,对跨国并购企业组织结构的优化动因进行分析,从而指出在企业能力变量的动态调整过程中,建立基于企业能力的学习型组织的组织结构是优化模式的创新选择。     

赛博变革：在我们相互连接的世界里学习——AECT2010年会评述与思考

四位作者作为AECT2010年会的参与者与组织者,首先对本届年会的主题内容,包括大会的主题报告、分会的研讨交流以及主席论坛的演讲等,做了全面而细致地回顾;然后在深入剖析会议主旨的基础上,根据其亲身经历与体会,论述了对本届年会的感悟与启示,其中包括对教育技术未来发展的展望以及对中国大陆教育技术领域所带来的参考与借鉴意义。