In this article, we review research on children's motivation to read and its relation to their
reading comprehension. We begin by discussing work on the development of school …

The purpose of this review is to document the directions and recent progress in our
understanding of the motivational dynamics of school achievement. Based on the …

Because challenges are ubiquitous, resilience is essential for success in school and in life.
In this article we review research demonstrating the impact of students' mindsets on their …

To introduce this special issue, the concept of the teacher as an “invisible hand” is presented
as a metaphor to describe the potentially influential but relatively understudied contribution …

Achievement goal researchers and theorists have relied primarily on the distinction between
performance goals and mastery goals in differentiating competence-based strivings. In this …

Written specifically for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for
motivating students to learn within the realities of a classroom learning community. Its focus …

Based on an engagement perspective of reading development, we investigated the extent to
which an instructional framework of combining motivation support and strategy instruction …

Age differences in intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and the relationships of each to
academic outcomes were examined in an ethnically diverse sample of 797 3rd-grade …

Positive relationships with teachers are important for students' second language motivation.
However, little is known about how interpersonal interactions stimulate motivated behavior …

The purpose of this article is to add to our current understanding of the social contexts of
education by synthesizing research on the nature and influence of relationships between …