Motivation to learn: From theory to practice

DJ Stipek - 1993 - ERIC
This book integrates theory, research, and practical issues related to achievement
motivation, and provides an overview of current theories in the field, including reinforcement …

Social competence: An untapped dimension in evaluating Head Start's success

CC Raver, EF Zigler - Early childhood research quarterly, 1997 - Elsevier
From its inception, Head Start has maintained children's social and emotional adjustment as
a primary goal of intervention, but researchers have yet to settle on a consensus definition of …

Reciprocal effects of self-concept and performance from a multidimensional perspective: Beyond seductive pleasure and unidimensional perspectives

HW Marsh, RG Craven - Perspectives on psychological …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
We (Marsh & Craven, 1997) have claimed that academic self-concept and achievement are
mutually reinforcing, each leading to gains in the other. Baumeister, Campbell, Krueger, and …

Predicting child outcomes at the end of kindergarten from the quality of pre-kindergarten teacher–child interactions and instruction

M Burchinal, C Howes, R Pianta, D Bryant… - Applied Development …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Publicly funded prekindergartens are programs that most states use to promote school
readiness, especially of 4-year-old children at risk for academic problems due to poverty …

A meta-analytic path analysis of the internal/external frame of reference model of academic achievement and academic self-concept

J Möller, B Pohlmann, O Köller… - Review of Educational …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
A meta-analysis of 69 data sets (N= 125,308) was carried out on studies that simultaneously
evaluate the effects of math and verbal achievements on math and verbal self-concepts. As …

An integrated model of academic self-concept development: Academic self-concept, grades, test scores, and tracking over 6 years.

HW Marsh, R Pekrun, K Murayama… - Developmental …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Our newly proposed integrated academic self-concept model integrates 3 major theories of
academic self-concept formation and developmental perspectives into a unified conceptual …

[BOOK][B] Assessment of social competence in children

M Semrud-Clikeman, M Semrud-Clikeman - 2007 - Springer
39 interacting with others and may even approach people for attention more often than
children without ADHD. In addition, the intensity the children with ADHD show in their …

[BOOK][B] Poverty and children's adjustment

SS Luthar - 1999 - books.google.com
The effects of poverty, lack of education and other negative socioeconomic forces on
children's development are examined from an interdisciplinary perspective in this book. It …

Assessing young children's views of their academic, social, and emotional lives: An evaluation of the self‐perception scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview

JR Measelle, JC Ablow, PA Cowan… - Child …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
In a prospective, longitudinal study we examined the psychometric properties of the self‐
perception scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview (BPI). A total sample of 97 young …

How do preschool children feel about themselves? Unraveling measurement and multidimensional self-concept structure.

HW Marsh, LA Ellis, RG Craven - Developmental psychology, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
Theoretical models suggest that 4-and 5-year-old children should be able to differentiate
between multiple dimensions of self-concept, but empirical support is limited. A new 38-item …