BACKGROUND Motivational interference is defined as the amount of impairment in a target activity due to the incentives of a non-chosen attractive alternative. The amount to which pupils experience motivational interference while studying or while performing a leisure activity in a school-leisure conflict situation is seen as depending on the values they attach to achievement and well-being. At ...

BACKGROUND Small general practices are often perceived to provide worse care than larger practices. AIM To describe the comparative performance of small practices on the UK's pay-for-performance scheme, the Quality and Outcomes Framework. DESIGN OF STUDY Longitudinal analysis (2004-2005 to 2006-2007) of quality scores for 48 clinical activities. SETTING Family practices in England (n = 75...

Scholastic achievement has become an index of child’s future in this highly competitive world.Unrecognized and unresolved, scholastic backwardness has a lifelong impact on the child and adolescent, affecting school completion, higher education, interpersonal relationships, prospects foremployment, marriage etc. Awareness of the varying causes, methods of presentation and the principles of manag...

It is now generally accepted that evaluation of national family planning programmes must be directed to determining achievements and assessing strategies on a number of levels, including the administrative, demographic, financial and political levels. Furthermore, the results of these assessments must be represented in a convenient form for annual or other appropriate periods. What a family pla...

As it happened in all domains of human activities, economic issues and the increase of people working in scientific research have altered the way scientific production is evaluated so as the objectives of performing the evaluation. Introduced in 2005 by J. E. Hirsch as an indicator able to measure individual scientific output not only in terms of quantity, but also in terms of quality, h index ...

Although there is consensus about the importance of students' satisfaction with their academic studies as one facet of academic success, little is known about the determinants of this significant outcome variable. Past research rarely investigated the predictive power of multiple predictors simultaneously. Hence, we examined how demographic variables, personality, cognitive and achievement-rela...

Richard E. Snow, working from his new aptitude theory, advocated a multidimensional approach to validating the construct of academic achievement. This report briefly describes Snow’s recommended approach and then summarizes new evidence from the present studies in terms of three related themes: (a) multidimensionality of science achievement, (b) transaction between achievement and situations, a...

Title of Document: THE EFFECTS OF CONSTRUCTS OF MOTIVATION THAT AFFIRM AND UNDERMINE READING ACHIEVEMENT INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL ON MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS’ READING ACHIEVEMENT Cassandra Shular Coddington, Ph.D., 2009 Directed By: Professor Allan Wigfield, Department of Human Development The purpose of this study was to examine whether motivation for reading was multidimensional in two resp...

The present study was aimed at investigating the relationships between students’ perceived classroom achievement goals, school engagement and substance use in terms of smoking and drinking, and at investigating gender differences regarding these issues in a sample of 1,239 Norwegian 10 grade students. A multivariate analysis showed that motivational and affective school engagement was predicted...