Journal Article

Predicting Long-Term Growth in Students' Mathematics Achievement: The Unique Contributions of Motivation and Cognitive Strategies

Murayama, Kou, Pekrun, Reinhard, vom Hofe, Rudolf, Lichtenfeld, Stephanie

2013

Overview

This research examined how motivation (perceived control, intrinsic motivation, and extrinsic motivation), cognitive learning strategies (deep and surface strategies), and intelligence jointly predict long-term growth in students' mathematics achievement over 5 years. Using longitudinal data from six annual waves (Grades 5 through 10; M age = 11.7 years at baseline; N = 3,530), latent growth curve modeling was employed to analyze growth in achievement. Results showed that the initial level of achievement was strongly related to intelligence, with motivation and cognitive strategies explaining additional variance. In contrast, intelligence had no relation with the growth of achievement over years, whereas motivation and learning strategies were predictors of growth. These findings highlight the importance of motivation and learning strategies in facilitating adolescents' development of mathematical competencies.

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd,Wiley Blackwell,Wiley-Blackwell,Oxford University Press
• Subject: Academic achievement / Academic learning / Achievement / Achievement Gains / Adolescent development / Adolescents / Age Differences / Biological and medical sciences / Child / Child development / Cognition / Cognition - physiology / Cognitive Abilities Test / Cognitive ability / Cognitive development / Cognitive Processes / Cognitive strategies / Competency based learning / Correlation / Educational psychology / Educational Status / Elementary school students / EMPIRICAL ARTICLES / Extrinsic motivation / Female / Foreign Countries / Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology / Gender Differences / Germany (Bavaria) / Grade 5 / Growth Models / Humans / Incentives / Intelligence / Intelligence Quotient / Intrinsic motivation / Learning / Learning - physiology / Learning Strategies / Locus of Control / Long term / Longitudinal Studies / Male / Mathematical growth / Mathematical surfaces / Mathematics / Mathematics Achievement / Mathematics Education / Middle school students / Motivation / Motivation - physiology / Motivation research / Perceived control / Predictor Variables / Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry / Psychology. Psychophysiology / Pupil and student. Academic achievement and failure / Rewards / Secondary education / Secondary School Students / Socioeconomic Status / Strategies / Structural Equation Models / Student Motivation / Students / Track System (Education)