Abstract
This study examines the presumed decrease in motivation as students progress across high school by following 3 cohorts for three years crossing critical periods of adolescent development, viz, Grades 7, 8, 9 (N=1331) until they were in grades 9, 10 and 11 respectively. Latent Growth Modeling (LGM) was employed to examine change over time. Three kinds of change were examined; cross sectional change across the three cohorts, longitudinal change within each cohort, and longitudinal change across the three cohorts. Substantively this study is important because it generally confirms findings from a number of studies that motivation does decline over the early years of high school. The most dramatic decline is for the Year 7 cohort.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - Apr 2011 |
| Event | 2011 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: “Inciting the Social Imagination: Education Research for the Public Good” - New Orleans, United States Duration: 08 Apr 2011 → 12 Apr 2011 https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting/Previous-Annual-Meetings/2011-Annual-Meeting |
Conference
| Conference | 2011 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: “Inciting the Social Imagination: Education Research for the Public Good” |
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| Abbreviated title | AERA 2011 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | New Orleans |
| Period | 08/04/11 → 12/04/11 |
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