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Effects of an Intervention on Students’ Emotion Profiles in Mathematics in Lower Secondary Education.
No full textStability and change of motivation profiles in mathematics instruction in lower secondary education
No full textMotivation is an important factor for successful learning processes and outcomes. Given the heterogeneity of individuals, it is of particular importance to understand differences between learners by applying a person-centered approach. The first research objective of our study was to examine students’ motivation profiles based on the self-determination theory (SDT) in mathematics in lower secondary education. The second objective was to investigate how these motivation profiles change during Grade 7 and 8. The third aim was to analyze whether a particular intervention setting (students participated in workshops with the aim of promoting positive emotions and learning motivation) had an impact on the patterns of change in the specific motivation profiles compared to the control setting. Conducting Latent Profile Analysis (LPA), motivation profiles of 348 lower secondary students were recorded based on their intrinsic, identified, introjected, and extrinsic regulation. Subsequently, the transition probabilities between the profiles are estimated using the Latent Transition Analysis (LTA). Results revealed three motivation profiles: a low-motivation profile, a high-motivation profile, and a self-determined motivation profile with high level of stability across Grades 7 and 8. Furthermore, LTA revealed different effects of the intervention on different motivation profiles. The intervention seemed to be better tailored to students in the low-motivation profile than to students in other profiles
How Changes in Students' Control and Value Appraisals Lead to Changes in Students' Mathematics Emotions
No full textReciprocal Effects between Self-Determined Motivation and Engagement in Mathematics
Full text linkStudent motivation and engagement are key requirements for successful learning. Existing research has shown that motivation can be seen as a predictor of engagement. However, this relationship might not be seen as linear, as engagement may also predict motivation for future learning activities. Therefore, the present paper investigates whether reciprocal effect can be found between self-determined motivation and behavioral engagement in mathematics instruction in lower secondary education. A total of six latent cross-lagged structural equation models were conducted with two forms of self-determined motivation (intrinsic and identified regulation) and three behavioral engagement indicators (effort, inattention, and procrastination). Data consists of answers of 348 students in Grades 7 and 8 at three measurement points. Results revealed positive effects between both forms of self-determined motivation and effort, and negative effects between both forms of self-determined motivation and inattention and procrastination over time. Cross-lagged effects vary depending on the behavioral engagement indicators and in terms of the strength of the direction. These results suggest that, in addition to the effect of motivation on behavioral engagement, students’ behavioral engagement in learning activities in mathematics may also influence his or her future motivation for mathematics learning
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Testing effects of promoting antecedents of mathematics achievement emotions: A change-change model
Full text linkBased on the control-value theory of achievement emotions, the present study investigates whether an intervention setting with the aim of inter alia promoting positive emotions could change control and value appraisals of low-achieving secondary school students in mathematics over two school years (Grades 7 and 8). Further, we examine the change-change assumption that positive intraindividual changes in perceived control and value longitudinally predict intraindividual changes in enjoyment, anger, anxiety, and boredom. Latent change models of 348 students revealed no significant effect of the intervention on changes in perceived control or value. Results confirmed the change-change hypothesis of the control-value theory for control and value and enjoyment, anger, anxiety, and boredom: Intraindividual changes in these emotions were longitudinally predicted by intraindividual changes in perceived control and value. Therefore, it can be assumed that the strategy of influencing students' control and value appraisals may be an effective measure to promote positive emotions while reducing negative ones
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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