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Pleasing the teacher: An exploration of the construct and its behavioral and motivational patterns.
(1997)
The current study examined motivational patterns related to high school students reasons for pleasing the teacher, and motivation in classes where they like and dislike the teacher. One hundred and twenty-five high school ...
Cheating and motivation: An examination of the relationships among cheating behaviors, motivational goals, cognitive engagement, and perceptions of classroom goal structures.
(1998)
Academic cheating was examined from a motivational perspective. Two constructs served as the basis for exploring relationships between cheating and intrinsic motivation: intrinsic motivation for cheating (the degree to ...
Learners' motivational characteristics in statistics: A causal model.
(1997)
A total of 263 participants enrolled in three introductory statistics courses completed a two-part instrument measuring the variables of interest prior to their midterm exam. In order to assess the validity of the causal ...
Faculty definitions of and beliefs about student ability: Are they related to classroom structures, student retention, and student pass rates?
(1998)
Analysis of the interviews indicated that faculty do not have a common definition of mathematical ability and while all believed that students could learn, a few voiced the belief that students have ceilings or limits to ...