Statistics anxiety has a positive relationship with academic drop-out and deserves greater attention. This study examines a model explaining the impact of students’ achievement goals on their statistics anxiety through levels of their academic engagement. Three hundred and fifteen undergraduate students (53 males and 262 females) who studied educational sciences and psychology in the state univ...

Literature has already confirmed that student engagement as an external or multidimensional construct may contribute to the academic success of college students. However, very few studies have tried to examine the contributions the more "internal forms of engagement" (cognitive and affective) might make in this regard, and how the engagement patterns may change over the academic years. To fill ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of interactional management style on academic adjustment, mathematical anxiety, and academic engagement in elementary sixth grade students. Methodology:  This research is applied in terms of purpose and quasi-experimental in terms of method and with pre-test-post-test design with experimental group and control group. The statistical ...

Background: Identification of the factors that result in academic achievement and prevent academic failure is of extreme importance due to the effective role of nursing in the health and wellbeing of human beings. Objectives: This study is done with regards to the important role of academic emotions in academic achievement and the double effect of academic engagement mediators and cognitive st...

The major purposes of the presents study were (a) to examine the degree to which academic engagement mediates the relationship between parenting style and academic achievement. Data from 382 participants (191 males and 191 females) were examined using measures of parenting style, academic engagement, and self-reported grade point average. The results indicated that academic engagement mediate r...

Low levels of academic engagement may impede students' acquisition of skills. Intervening on student behavior using group contingencies may be a feasible way to increase academic engagement during group instruction. The current study examined the effect of a randomized dependent group contingency on levels of academic engagement for second-grade participants receiving small-group reading and wr...