TY - JOUR A1 - Lazarides, Rebecca A1 - Viljaranta, Jaana A1 - Ranta, Mette A1 - Salmela-Aro, Katariina T1 - Adolescents’ preparedness and motivation across the transition to post-comprehensive education JF - Contemporary educational psychology N2 - This longitudinal study aims to test the concept of transition preparedness in the context of educational transitions. The study investigates how adolescents’ transition preparedness, conceptualized as their self-efficacy beliefs and their inoculation against setbacks, before an educational transition affect the adolescents’ school value and effort related to educational goals after the transition through the effects on achievement goal orientations. Student data from three waves of a longitudinal study are used, first collected in 2004 (before the students’ transition from comprehensive school to upper secondary education) and then collected twice after the transition. The students included in the analyses are those who participated at all three measurement points (N = 588; 49.5% girls; age MT1 = 15.01, SD = 0.13). Longitudinal structural equation modeling revealed that adolescents’ self-efficacy beliefs (Time 1) positively predicted school value and effort (Time 3) through their effect on mastery goal orientation (Time 2). Furthermore, self-efficacy moderated the relation between performance-approach goal orientation (Time 1) on school value (Time 2). Results are discussed in terms of their relevance for enhancing adolescents’ adaptive motivational development across educational transitions. KW - Educational transitions KW - Transition preparedness KW - Self-efficacy beliefs KW - Inoculation against setbacks KW - Achievement goal orientations KW - School value Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2017.01.008 SN - 0361-476X SN - 1090-2384 VL - 49 SP - 151 EP - 159 PB - Elsevier CY - San Diego ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lazarides, Rebecca A1 - Rubach, Charlott T1 - Instructional characteristics in mathematics classrooms BT - relationships to achievement goal orientation and student engagement JF - Mathematics Education Research Journal N2 - This longitudinal study examined relationships between student-perceived teaching for meaning, support for autonomy, and competence in mathematic classrooms (Time 1), and students’ achievement goal orientations and engagement in mathematics 6 months later (Time 2). We tested whether student-perceived instructional characteristics at Time 1 indirectly related to student engagement at Time 2, via their achievement goal orientations (Time 2), and, whether student gender moderated these relationships. Participants were ninth and tenth graders (55.2% girls) from 46 classrooms in ten secondary schools in Berlin, Germany. Only data from students who participated at both timepoints were included (N = 746 out of total at Time 1 1118; dropout 33.27%). Longitudinal structural equation modeling showed that student-perceived teaching for meaning and support for competence indirectly predicted intrinsic motivation and effort, via students’ mastery goal orientation. These paths were equivalent for girls and boys. The findings are significant for mathematics education, in identifying motivational processes that partly explain the relationships between student-perceived teaching for meaning and competence support and intrinsic motivation and effort in mathematics. KW - Mathematics classrooms KW - Instruction KW - Intrinsicmotivation KW - Achievement goal orientation KW - Effort KW - Gender Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s13394-017-0196-4 SN - 1033-2170 SN - 2211-050X VL - 29 SP - 201 EP - 217 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lazarides, Rebecca A1 - Raufelder, Diana T1 - Longitudinal Effects of Student-Perceived Classroom Support on Motivation BT - A Latent Change Model JF - Frontiers in psychology N2 - This two-wave longitudinal study examined how developmental changes in students’ mastery goal orientation, academic effort, and intrinsic motivation were predicted by student-perceived support of motivational support (support for autonomy, competence, and relatedness) in secondary classrooms. The study extends previous knowledge that showed that support for motivational support in class is related to students’ intrinsic motivation as it focused on the developmental changes of a set of different motivational variables and the relations of these changes to student-perceived motivational support in class. Thus, differential classroom effects on students’ motivational development were investigated. A sample of 1088 German students was assessed in the beginning of the school year when students were in grade 8 (Mean age D 13.70, SD D 0.53, 54% girls) and again at the end of the next school year when students were in grade 9. Results of latent change models showed a tendency toward decline in mastery goal orientation and a significant decrease in academic effort from grade 8 to 9. Intrinsic motivation did not decrease significantly across time. Student-perceived support of competence in class predicted the level and change in students’ academic effort. The findings emphasized that it is beneficial to create classroom learning environments that enhance students’ perceptions of competence in class when aiming to enhance students’ academic effort in secondary school classrooms. KW - classroom characteristics KW - autonomy KW - competence KW - relatedness KW - motivation KW - latent change model KW - adolescence Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00417 SN - 1664-1078 VL - 8 PB - Frontiers Research Foundation CY - Lausanne ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lazarides, Rebecca A1 - Buchholz, Janine A1 - Rubach, Charlott T1 - Teacher enthusiasm and self-efficacy, student-perceived mastery goal orientation, and student motivation in mathematics classrooms JF - Teaching and Teacher Education N2 - The purpose of this study is to examine whether teacher enthusiasm and classroom management self efficacy are related to classroom mastery orientation and student motivation. We used data from 803 students in grades 9 and 10 (53.3% girls) and their mathematics teachers (N = 41; 58.5% men). Student perceived teacher enthusiasm was related to classroom mastery orientation as well as to intrinsic value and cost at the student level. Teacher-reported self-efficacy was related to classroom mastery orientation at the classroom level. At both the individual and the classroom level, classroom mastery orientation was related to attainment and utility value. KW - Teacher enthusiasm KW - Teacher self-efficacy KW - Mathematics classrooms KW - Multilevel analyses Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2017.08.017 SN - 0742-051X VL - 69 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER -