Social–psychological interventions in education have shown remarkable promise as brief,
inexpensive, and powerful methods for improving educational equity and inclusion by …

BACKGROUND In most schools in the United States, educators decide what happens in the
classroom. They control the content, the learning activities, which students are in the …

According to expectancy-value models of achievement motivation, a core component of
increasing student motivation is utility value. Utility value refers to the importance that a task …

A wide range of occupations require science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) skills, yet almost half of students who intend to pursue a postsecondary STEM …

Some students struggle with chemistry because they do not find the relevance between
chemistry content and their lives or they perceive their intelligence as fixed. Social …

Utility-value (UV) writing interventions help students find the personal relevance of course
material to promote interest and performance. However, little is known about how best to …

Background How to best operationalize teachers' autonomy support, an instructional style
aiming to satisfy students' psychological need for autonomy, is unclear because teachers …

The control-value theory (CVT) of achievement emotions is a well-established theoretical
framework which delineates the predictive relationships among distal and proximal …

Career choice is an important challenge in adolescence. Relevance interventions may be
an option for promoting career choices because students reflect on the usefulness of the …

Background Individuals pursue teaching careers for numerous reasons, such as for
instrumental or prosocial purposes. Aims This study examined the personal (instrumental …