Children’s sense of relatedness is vital to their academic motivation from 3rd to 6th grade. Children’s (n 641) reports of relatedness predicted changes in classroom engagement over the school year and contributed over and above the effects of perceived control. Regression and cumulative risk analyses revealed that relatedness to parents, teachers, and peers each uniquely contributed to student...

Engagement​ ​in​ ​educational​ ​games,​ ​a​ ​recently​ ​popular​ ​academic​ ​topic,​ ​has​ ​been​ ​shown​ ​to increase​ ​learning​ ​performance,​ ​as​ ​well​ ​as​ ​a​ ​number​ ​of​ ​attitudinal​ ​factors,​ ​such​ ​as​ ​intrinsic​ ​interest and​ ​motivation.​ ​However,​ ​there​ ​is​ ​a​ ​lack​ ​of​ ​research​ ​on​ ​how​ ​games​ ​can​ ​be​ ​designed​ ​to​ ​promote engagement.​ ​This​ ​mixed​ ​met...

This article explores how social media use in formal and informal learning spaces can support the development of digital citizenship for secondary school students. As students increasingly spend large amounts of time online (e.g., an average of six hours of screen time per day, excluding school and homework), it is critical that they are developing skills enabling them to find, evaluate, and sh...

2 | Visit 4-h.org/about/youth-development-research to learn more. OVERVIEW The 4-H Study was designed to test the idea that when the strengths of youth are aligned across adolescence with family, school, and community resources, positive youth development will occur. These resources include those provided by community-based, out-of-school time youth development programs, such as 4 In the 4-H St...

Abstract. This study investigates the validity and reliability of German version School Burnout Inventory (SBI-G) in 1,570 secondary-school students ( Mage = 14.11, SD 0.78; 51.7 % girls). Results indicate that school burnout consists two correlated but separate dimensions including (1) exhaustion at school, (2) cynicism toward meaning sense inadequacy. The revealed can be measured as a two-fac...

Organizations are experiencing increased competition, disruptive innovation, and continuous changes in their social and economic context. Furthermore, the decrease of resources (economic and human) in such a demanding context make it imperative for organizations to find new models and strategies to make their service delivery more sustainable at the economic, environmental and psychological lev...

2 | Visit 4-h.org/about/youth-development-research to learn more. OVERVIEW The 4-H Study was designed to test the idea that when the strengths of youth are aligned across adolescence with family, school, and community resources, positive youth development will occur. These resources include those provided by community-based, out-of-school time youth development programs, such as 4 In the 4-H St...