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Factors Influencing Educational Motivation: a study of attitudes, expectations and behaviour of children in Sunderland, Kentucky and St Petersburg

British educational research journal, 1999-02, Vol.25 (1), p.75-94 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright 1999 British Educational Research Association ;1999 British Educational Research Association ;1999 INIST-CNRS ;ISSN: 0141-1926 ;EISSN: 1469-3518 ;DOI: 10.1080/0141192990250106

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Title:
Factors Influencing Educational Motivation: a study of attitudes, expectations and behaviour of children in Sunderland, Kentucky and St Petersburg
Author: Elliott, Julian ; Hufton, Neil ; Hildreth, Anthony ; Illushin, Leonid
Subjects: Academic Achievement ; Academic education ; Academic motivation ; Adolescents ; Children ; Comparative Analysis ; Educational attainment ; Educational Attitudes ; Educational research ; Foreign Countries ; High schools ; Higher Education ; Homework ; Kentucky (East) ; Mathematics education ; Role of Education ; Russia (Saint Petersburg) ; Satisfaction ; School age children ; Student Attitudes ; Student Behavior ; Student Motivation
Is Part Of: British educational research journal, 1999-02, Vol.25 (1), p.75-94
Description: Worldwide concern about educational achievement, fuelled by comparative studies, has resulted in much debate about appropriate pedagogic practices. This article argues, however, that in considering how to raise educational attainment, key attitudinal and other sociocultural factors have been insufficiently considered. To support this position, it reports the findings from a large-scale international investigation of the attitudes, perceptions and orientation towards academic activity of children (aged 14-15 years). Findings indicate that English and American children share a relatively high degree of satisfaction with their current level of academic performance and work rate, place greater emphasis upon effort rather than ability attributions for success, although, somewhat paradoxically, appear to have less real commitment to educational endeavour. Findings from the study are discussed in the light of the children's differing socio-economic and sociocultural contexts and current educational reform initiatives.
Publisher: Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Language: English;Russian
Identifier: ISSN: 0141-1926
EISSN: 1469-3518
DOI: 10.1080/0141192990250106
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
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Factors Influencing Educational Motivation: a study of attitudes, expectations and behaviour of children in Sunderland, Kentucky and St Petersburg

Copyright 1999 British Educational Research Association ;1999 British Educational Research Association ;1999 INIST-CNRS ;ISSN: 0141-1926 ;EISSN: 1469-3518 ;DOI: 10.1080/0141192990250106

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