Pub Date : 2026-01-09DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2026.102443
Andrea S. Wisenöcker, Cornelia S. Große
It has been repeatedly shown that students often provide unrealistic solutions to word problems. We investigated the impact of the problem scenario and the question wording on solving word problems that require realistic considerations (p-problems). We assumed that (1) a real-world scenario and (2) question wordings emphasising the need for an applicable solution by indicating imminent actions of persons in the problem statement would foster realistic responses. A total of N = 127 7th graders participated. A two-factorial experiment with the factors “scenario” (maths test vs. school trip) and “imminent action” (with vs. without) was implemented. Participants solved three p-problems and indicated whether they expected a person from the problem scenario to prefer a realistic or unrealistic solution. In the school trip scenario, students had statistically significant higher odds of providing realistic solutions (OR = 2.38, p = 0.008) and of expecting a realistic solution to be preferred compared to the maths test scenario (OR = 9.01, p < 0.001). Questions indicating imminent actions of persons in the problem statement led to significantly higher odds of providing realistic solutions (OR = 2.80, p = 0.002), but did not significantly affect expectations regarding a third person’s preference (OR = 1.50, p = 0.368), compared to standard questions. Results suggest a relevant impact of the mathematics classroom context, and introduce a way to effectively encourage realistic solutions.
事实一再表明,学生们经常为应用题提供不切实际的解决方案。我们调查了问题场景和问题措辞对解决需要实际考虑的单词问题(p-problems)的影响。我们假设(1)一个真实的场景和(2)问题措辞强调需要一个适用的解决方案,通过在问题陈述中指出人们即将采取的行动来促进现实的反应。共有N = 127名七年级学生参与。我们进行了一个双因素实验,其中包括“情景”(数学测试vs学校旅行)和“迫在眉睫的行动”(有vs没有)。参与者解决了三个p问题,并指出他们希望问题场景中的一个人更喜欢现实的还是不现实的解决方案。在学校旅行场景中,与数学测试场景相比,学生提供现实解决方案的几率(OR = 2.38, p = 0.008)和期望更现实的解决方案的几率(OR = 9.01, p < 0.001)具有统计学意义上的显著性。与标准问题相比,问题陈述中表明人们即将采取行动的问题显著提高了提供现实解决方案的几率(OR = 2.80, p = 0.002),但对第三方偏好的预期没有显著影响(OR = 1.50, p = 0.368)。结果提出了数学课堂情境的相关影响,并介绍了一种有效鼓励现实解决方案的方法。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-08DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2026.102444
Levi Wade , Mark R. Beauchamp , Nicole Nathan , Jordan J. Smith , Angus A. Leahy , Ran Bao , Sarah G. Kennedy , James Boyer , Thierno M.O. Diallo , Sam Beacroft , David R. Lubans
Schools provide an ideal context for developing students’ leadership skills; however, most leadership opportunities (e.g., serving as class president) are typically offered to students who already demonstrate leadership qualities. The aim of our study was to evaluate the effects of a school-based leadership program, implemented through a peer-led fundamental movement skills intervention, on the leadership abilities of student leaders (10–12 years) and the physical and psychological development of their younger peers (8–10 years). We conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of the Learning to Lead program in 20 elementary schools in New South Wales, Australia (N = 1898 students). Leader outcomes included teacher-rated leadership effectiveness (the primary outcome), leadership ability, leadership self-efficacy, wellbeing, and observed time on-task in the classroom. Peer outcomes included school-based physical activity (accelerometers), object control motor competence (Test of Gross Motor Development-3), perceived motor competence, cardiorespiratory fitness (20-meter multi-stage fitness test), and muscular power (standing long jump). We observed statistically significant group-by-time effects for Leaders’ leadership effectiveness, wellbeing, and time spent on-task in the classroom. Statistically significant improvements in Peers’ perceived motor competence, school-based physical activity, and cardiorespiratory fitness were also found. Our study demonstrated that a school-based leadership intervention has extensive benefits for the students delivering the program and those they taught. In addition to improvements in students’ leadership skills, the Learning to Lead program produced spillover effects on students’ well‑being and time on task in the classroom.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-20DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102441
Theresa Dicke , Herbert W. Marsh , Philip D. Parker , Reinhard Pekrun , Jiesi Guo , Geetanjali Basarkod , Ioulia Televantou , Ziwen Teuber
Research has shown positive effects of group-average achievement on individual achievement (peer spillover effect) but negative effects on academic self-concept (big-fish-little-pond effect; BFLPE), which is positively related to achievement. We examine these apparently paradoxical class composition effects in a longitudinal sample of more than 2000 German students followed over two school years in a tracked school system. Using multilevel models that control for school track, prior ability, socioeconomic status, gender, and two indicators of teaching quality (teacher enthusiasm and classroom management), as well as measurement and sampling error, we test the robustness of both effects.
Results show that the peer spillover effect is largely explained by pre-existing differences, such as prior ability. In contrast, the BFLPE became more negative after including covariates and remained so when controlling for teaching quality. The inclusion of teacher enthusiasm and classroom management only marginally changed either effect, indicating that, in this dataset, these two core instructional variables explained little of the variance in achievement or self‐concept beyond pre‐selection and peer composition effects. By distinguishing between compositional effects and instructional influences, our study contributes to a clearer understanding of how peer and classroom factors interact. Implications for future research include examining a broader range of teaching quality dimensions and exploring the conditions under which class composition may positively affect both achievement and self-beliefs.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102442
Jeanette Zambrano , Erika A. Patall , Amanda Vite , Diane J. Lee
Although self-determination theory (SDT) and culturally relevant and responsive education (CRRE) each offer valuable insights for supporting student motivation, they have rarely been integrated. This study introduces and validates a measure of the Race-Reimaged Autonomy-Supportive Instruction (RR-ASI) framework, which reimages core SDT practices through a culturally grounded, justice-oriented lens. Across three studies, we validated the RR-ASI framework with racially and ethnically diverse college students. Study 1 involved cognitive interviews to establish content validity. Studies 2 and 3 used confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to test construct, predictive, and incremental validity. Study 3 further tested convergent and discriminant validity. Results showed that RR-ASI subscales were distinct from traditional SDT subscales, highly reliable, and significantly predicted autonomy and emotional engagement beyond traditional SDT measures. RR-ASI practices also demonstrated strong alignment with culturally relevant teaching and appropriate divergence from stereotyping and controlling instruction. Findings suggest that autonomy support must be situated within students’ cultural and sociopolitical realities to be most effective. This work provides a theoretically grounded and adaptable framework to support motivation in diverse classrooms, advancing efforts to create more inclusive and equitable learning environments.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102439
Tanja Held , David W. Putwain , Tina Hascher
Students’ expectancy of success and subjective task values are important predictors of academic success and empirical evidence shows that interventions targeting expectancy of success or subjective task values in the classroom are effective. However, more scientific knowledge is needed to understand how different students respond to those interventions and can be motivated to learn mathematics. Also, the effectiveness of new student-addressed formats such as game-based interventions should be investigated. The present study examines the effects of a social-psychological multi-construct intervention (addressing students’ mindset and subjective task values) in mathematics, implemented as a serious game. Furthermore, we investigate how individual differences (prior expectancy of success and values, prior mathematics achievement, gender, gaming experience, gaming enjoyment, and persistence) influence the effectiveness of the intervention. Participants were 580 students from 32 classes in 16 schools in lower secondary education. Participating schools were randomly assigned to the intervention or the wait-list control group. Multilevel mixed effect models were estimated to investigate the effects of the intervention. In addition, multilevel growth models were estimated to investigate intraindividual change over time and interindividual differences in trajectories within the intervention group. Results showed positive effects of the intervention on students’ intrinsic value, utility value and mindset in mathematics. However, the findings also revealed that the efficacy of the intervention depends on individual attitudes such as prior expectancy of success, subjective task values, and persistence. Our findings suggest that a game-based multi-construct intervention can foster positive motivational outcomes in mathematics, though careful consideration of individual traits and intervention design is essential to maximise its effectiveness.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-13DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102440
Glona Lee-Poon, Nayssan Safavian, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Sandra D. Simpkins
The purpose of this study was to chart the development of adolescents’ math motivational beliefs (i.e., expectancies for success, interest, utility value, and attainment value) during the transition from middle to high school, and their associations with multiple STEM outcomes (i.e., career aspirations, later achievement, and coursework). In addition, we identified potential differences at the intersection of race/ethnicity and gender among Asian and Latine male/female youth. Using a cross-sequential design, we mapped adolescents’ motivational belief development across six time points during Grades 8–10 (n = 1,288; Mage = 13.79; 53 % female; 85 % Latine; 15 % Asian). We found that expectancies for success remained stable, whereas subjective task values declined. Asian male adolescents were more likely to report higher levels of expectancies for success and interest at Grade 8 than Latine female adolescents. Asian female adolescents reported higher interest at Grade 8 but displayed significantly greater declines than Latine male and female adolescents. Second, we found that expectancy-value beliefs often did not predict STEM outcomes among Asian male and female adolescents, but they mattered for Latine male and female adolescents; particularly, motivational beliefs in Grade 8 often predicted their STEM outcomes. Among Latine female adolescents, the change in motivational beliefs also significantly predicted their STEM outcomes. This study highlights that fostering positive motivational belief development, especially among Latine adolescents, may help bolster their STEM performance. Particularly, our insights inform that interventions in early adolescence could be particularly impactful in closing the gaps and improving STEM participation among marginalized youths (i.e., Latine adolescents).
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Pub Date : 2025-12-11DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102438
Yeo-eun Kim , Patrick N. Beymer , Elise C. Allen , Emily Q. Rosenzweig
Despite growing interest on how students regulate their motivation, little is known about the dynamic changes in their motivational regulation strategies and the effectiveness of those strategies in academic success. To explore the evolving patterns of motivational regulation strategies throughout a semester, we recruited 223 undergraduate students from a calculus course and collected weekly data on their strategies (totaling 1,366 responses) and their course grades. We observed a general decline in the planned use of strategies over time, with performance-oriented and behavior-focused strategies (e.g., performance-approach self-talk, environmental structuring, proximal goal setting) being the most prominent compared to more value-related strategies (e.g., enhancement of personal significance, enhancement of utility value). Additionally, we highlighted the dynamic and interconnected nature of these strategies, showing how certain approaches (e.g., mastery self-talk, proximal goal setting) acted as catalysts for others throughout the semester. Finally, our research revealed that not all motivational regulation strategies were equally effective in predicting course grades. Our findings contribute to the literature by highlighting the importance of paying attention to the temporal changes of motivational regulation as students continuously navigate and modify their motivational regulation throughout the semester.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102430
Gyde Wartenberg , Monika H. Donker , Karen Aldrup , Uta Klusmann , Tim Mainhard
Teacher burnout is theoretically and empirically assumed to impair their professional behavior. This could manifest itself in their communion (i.e., teacher friendliness) and interpersonal agency (i.e., social influence), as the two central dimensions of interpersonal teacher behavior, which in turn could negatively affect student outcomes. This study is one of the first to test this entire assumed process chain of effects. We extend prior research by considering (1) all three burnout symptoms rather than only emotional exhaustion, (2) both student and observer ratings of interpersonal teacher behavior, and (3) student-rated emotions and engagement as important affective-motivational student outcomes that have been understudied compared to cognitive learning outcomes. Drawing on data from N = 80 secondary school teachers and their N = 1748 students, multilevel analyses revealed that especially emotional exhaustion and reduced personal accomplishment were associated with less teacher communion, which was in turn associated with adverse affective experiences among students. These findings advance a more profound theoretical understanding of teacher burnout for their interpersonal behavior in class and for their students by demonstrating the hypothesized relationship for student-perceived communion while emphasizing the importance to consider all three burnout symptoms. Implications to support stakeholders in the education system to evaluate the value of interventions for reducing teacher burnout can also be derived.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102429
Jacqueline Cerda-Smith , Caroline Grant , Paula Yust , Channing Mathews , Kelly Lynn Mulvey
Antiracist education is a highly politicized and contested issue in the United States. This qualitative inquiry with high school students (n = 15, 10 White, 3 Black, 2 Asian) and teachers (n = 7, all White) explored the value of considering students’ and teachers’ engagement in a school-based antiracist program from a critical race consciousness framework (i.e., beliefs, feelings, and actions that challenge racism). Semi-structured, individual interviews revealed how an antiracist program, which involved reading and discussing the book Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, engaged students and teachers in racism analysis, racial reflexivity, and antiracist action. Specifically, participants provided rich descriptions of how the Stamped program encouraged them to gain new perspectives, understand and recognize racism, link historical and modern racism, feel responsible and committed to racial justice, and take internal and interpersonal antiracist action. Some developmental trends emerged in which students were more likely to gain new worldviews and social cognitive mindsets whereas teachers were more likely to be racially reflexive and simultaneously discuss analysis, reflexivity, and action. Implications for antiracist programs as well as educational and developmental theory are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102426
Aleksander Kocaj
Students with special educational needs (SEN) are increasingly included in the general classroom. This study directly replicates results on the relationships between inclusive schooling and the academic, motivational, and psychosocial outcomes of students without SEN. Analyses relied on consecutive representative large-scale assessments of fourth-graders in German primary schools with similar sampling procedures, study designs, and measures between the original and replication studies. Multilevel regression models compared students without classmates with SEN (n = 13,525) to those with at least one classmate with SEN (n = 9,175), with additional analyses for classmates with different types of SEN (i.e., learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, emotional disorders). Consistent with the original study, results indicate that inclusive schooling does not negatively affect students without SEN. However, their academic achievement in spelling and mathematics was slightly lower in inclusive classrooms, with small effect sizes. Overall, most effect sizes were comparable between the original and replication studies.
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