Behavioral Economics of Education During the last decade knowledge about human behavior from psychology and sociology has enhanced the field of economics of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by achievement tests) and soft skills (personality traits not adequately measured by achievement tests) as equally important drivers of later economic outcomes, and skills ...

Article history: Received 26 August 2009 Received in revised form 8 March 2010 Accepted 20 April 2010 Available online 14 May 2010 Achievement motivation is considered a prerequisite for success in academic as well as nonacademic settings. We studied sex differences in academic and general achievement motivation in an adult sample of 338 men and 497 women (ages 18–70 years). Multi-group covaria...

This longitudinal study uses a cultural ecological-transactional perspective (Garcia-Coll, et. al., 1996; Kuperminc, et al., in press) to examine whether relational factors (familism and parental involvement) predict processes of motivation and achievement one year later among 199 Latino adolescents from immigrant families. Parent involvement predicted higher present-oriented and future-oriente...

Gamification is the application of game mechanics, such as leader boards, badges or achievement points, in non-gaming environments with the aim to increase user engagement, data quality or cost effectiveness. A core aspect of gamification solutions is to infuse intrinsic motivations to participate by leveraging people’s natural desires for achievement and competition. While gamification, on the...

Previous work examines the relationships between personality traits and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. We replicate and extend previous work to examine how personality may relate to achievement goals, efficacious beliefs, and mindset about intelligence. Approximately 200 undergraduates responded to the survey with a 150 participants replicating the study two weeks later. When comparing data fr...

man's instinct for exploring is the most natural way to enhance motivation and, consequently, cognition. in the research-centered teaching method, developed after many y ears of teaching experience, the principles mentioned in textbooks are not presented directly instead, the lecture begins by posing an initial question about how scientists have discovered a certain principle. students are...

Motivation has long been associated with sports engagement. However, to date no research has been performed to understand the domain of motivation among ten-pin bowlers. The purpose of this study was to investigate different types of motivation (i.e., intrinsic vs. extrinsic) based on self-determination theory from the perspective of gender and the bowler type (competitive vs. casual). A total ...

Learning commonly requires feedback about the consequences of one's actions, which can drive learners to modify their behavior. Motivation may determine how sensitive an individual might be to such feedback, particularly in educational contexts where some students value academic achievement more than others. Thus, motivation for a task might influence the value placed on performance feedback an...

This study primarily investigates gifted children's and their mothers' acceptance-rejection control perceptions achievement motivation. The was carried out with 5th 6th year students attending Science Art Centers in two cities Turkey, mothers. sample of this research is 226 (103 girls 126 boys) 179 As data collection tools, Turkish Parent Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire/Control: Chi...