How We Teach: Generalizable Education Research Intellectual development is positively related to intrinsic motivation and course grades for female but not male students
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Ronald N. Cortright, Heidi L. Lujan, Julie H. Cox, Maria A. Cortright, Brandon M. Langworthy, Lorene M. Petta, Charles J. Tanner, and Stephen E. DiCarlo Departments of Kinesiology and Physiology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan; Department of Kinesiology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; and 4 Department of World Languages, North Pitt High School, Bethel, North Carolina
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Intellectual development is positively related to intrinsic motivation and course grades for female but not male students.
We hypothesized that the intellectual development of students, i.e., their beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning, affects their intrinsic motivation and class performance. Specifically, we hypothesized that students with low intellectual development (i.e., the naive beliefs that knowledge is simple, absolute, and certain) have low intrinsic motivation and low class performance, whe...
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