Search results for "self-concept"

Temperamentally inhibited children are at risk for poorer maths performance : self-concept as mediator

2020

AbstractIt has repeatedly been found that temperamental inhibition and low academic achievement are associated with each other: children with cautious and wary or shy behaviour are at risk for low academic achievement. Several suggestions about the mechanism behind this association have been made, these highlighting for example, the fewer learning opportunities of cautious and wary children and more negative interaction between teachers and inhibited children. However, the empirical studies about these mechanisms are rare and, thus, they have remained unclear. This study examined whether children’s maths-related self-concept of ability acts as a mediator between their temperamental inhibiti…

In search of an alternative way of investigating the foreign language self-concepts of adult English learners

1999

Parental Involvement in Math Homework: Links to Children’s Performance and Motivation

2017

The present study examined the longitudinal associations between children’s perceptions of parental involvement in math homework (control and support) and their math performance and motivation (taskpersistent homework behavior and math self-concept). Children (n = 512) reported their perceptions concerning parental involvement in sixthgrade math homework. In grades 3 and 6, children completed math tests, evaluated own math self-concept, and their mothers (n = 420) evaluated task persistence during homework. The results showed that low selfconcept in math predicted increased parental control, which in turn related to low math performance, task persistence, and math selfconcept. Second, perce…

Music training, cognitive abilities and self-concept of ability in children

2009

Kognitīvo izkropļojumu saistība ar Es-koncepciju

2018

Pētījuma jautājumi: Kādas saistības pastāv starp dažādu kognitīvo izkropļojumu veidu izmantošanu un Es-koncepciju? Vai pastāv dzimumatšķirības kognitīvo izkropļojumu veidu izmantošanas biežumā/izteiktībā un Es-koncepcijas rādījumos? Vai un kā Es-koncepcijas un kognitīvo izkroplojumu izmantošanas biežuma saistības atšķiras sieviešu un vīriešu grupās? Izmantotās metodes: Kognitīvo izkropļojumu skala (Covin et. al., 2011), Negatīvo pārliecību skala, (Roberts, 2015) un Es-koncepcijas aptauja (Robson, 1989). Respondenti: 178 respondenti (no kuriem 106 sievietes), vecumā no no 16 līdz 74. Pētījuma rezultāti: kopumā pastāv statistiski nozīmīgas negatīvas saistības starp Es-koncepciju un kognitīvaj…

Pupils’ mathematical self-concept in the beginning of the sixth grade

2016

The article shows the mathematical self-concept of the sixth grade pupils (n=57) in relation to their mathematical skills in school. Mathematical skills were measured with the help of a survey of the command of the decimal system and on the basis of the report grades in mathematics. The pupils’ mathematical self-concept was surveyed in the beginning of the sixth grade with the interviews and a questionnaire using the Likert-scale. The mathematical self-concept seemed to be more positive the better the mathematics skills pupils had. peerReviewed

Una aproximación al perfil de los estudiantes universitarios excelentes

2014

[ES] El objetivo de este trabajo era concretar el perfil de los alumnos excelentes en la universidad, de cara a precisar modelos eficaces de funcionamiento que se pudieran generalizar y enseñar, en la medida de lo posible. Para ello se recogieron datos de varios grupos de alumnos de 1º de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia con las mejores notas de entrada de diferentes titulaciones cuyos resultados se compararon con los de alumnos de calificaciones medias. Fueron 281 estudiantes, 148 excelentes y 133 medios, elegidos como tales por las notas de la PAU, de 11 titulaciones de 9 centros de esta universidad. Se evaluaron las estrategias de aprendizaje, los enfoques y estilos de aprendizaje,…

The Developmental Dynamics between Interest, Self-concept of Ability, and Academic Performance

2014

Abstract. Only a few studies have examined the direction of associations between academic achievement, interest, and sel f-concept of ability simultaneously by using longitudinal data over several school years. To exam ine the cross-lagged relationships between students’ interest, self-concept of ability, and performance in mathematics and reading, longitudinal data from Grade 1 to Grade 7 of comprehensive school was gathered from 216 students. The results showed that, in both reading and math, performance predicted students’ subsequent self-concept of ability. Some evidence was also found that math performance predicts subsequent interest in mathematics, and that self- concept of math abil…

Cognitive skills, self-beliefs and task interest in children with low reading and/or arithmetic fluency

2022

This study examined the identifiability and early cognitive and motivational markers of low reading and arithmetic fluency. Comparisons of these characteristics between Finnish third graders (n = 197) with low fluency in reading, arithmetic, or both revealed, first, that the majority of third graders with low arithmetic fluency showed low arithmetic skills already at first-grade spring, whereas children with low reading fluency were identified from the second-grade fall onward. Second, all groups with low fluency showed low rapid automatized naming and counting skills across the primary school years, while in other cognitive skills these groups showed different patterns. Third, all groups w…

Validity and reliability of a pictorial scale of physical self-concept in spanish children. [Validez y fiabilidad de la escala pictográfica de autoco…

2019

The pictorial scale of Physical Self-Concept in Children (P-PSC-C) is a relatively new instrument for investigating physical self-concept in childhood. The current study aims to examine the validity and reliability of the Spanish version of the P-PSC-C, and also to analyse the validity according to the children’s age. A sample of 365 primary school age (M = 9.21, SD = 1.92) students participated; divided in two groups, those aged 9 or younger and those 10-11 years old. Surveys were used to assess perceived physical concept individually. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with diagonally weighted least square estimator specifically designed for ordinal data and a scaled test statistic was co…