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Motivation in the classroom: Reciprocal effects of teacher behavior and student engagement across the school year.
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On the basis of a new model of motivation, we examined the effects of 3 dimensions of teacher (n = 14) behavior (involvement, structure, and autonomy support) on 144 children's (Grades 3-5) behavioral and emotional engagement across a school year. Correlational and path analyses revealed that teacher involvement was central to children's experiences in the classroom and that teacher provision of both autonomy support and optimal structure predicted children's motivation across the school year. Reciprocal effects of student motivation on teacher behavior were also found. Students who showed higher initial behavioral engagement received subsequently more of all 3 teacher behaviors. These findings suggest that students who are behaviorally disengaged receive teacher responses that should further undermine their motivation. The importance of the student-teacher relationship, especially interpersonal involvement, in optimizing student motivation is highlighted. What are the factors that motivate children to learn? Educators and parents value motivation in school for its own sake as well as for its long-term contribution to children's learning and self-esteem. Highly motivated children are easy to identify: They are enthusiastic, interested, involved, and curious; they try hard and persist; and they actively cope with challenges and setbacks. These are the children who should stay in school longer, learn more, feel better about themselves, and continue their education after high school. Recent research has borne this out (Ames & Ames, 1984, 1985; Pintrich, 1991; Stipek, 1988). Although motivated students are easy to recognize, they are difficult to find. Research shows that across the preschool to high school years, children's intrinsic motivation decreases and they feel increasingly alienated from learning (Harter, 1981). Why is it so difficult to optimize student motivation? Decades of psychological and educational research
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“The majority of studies (86 out of 94 studies) described the two constructs as two independent but positively related aspects of teachers' instructional approaches (e.g., Connell & Wellborn, 1991;Skinner & Belmont, 1993;Tucker et al., 2002).Correlations between autonomy support and structure ranged from r = 0.01 to r = 0.87.”
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“As teachers both strongly influence students' behaviors and are strongly identified with schools (Skinner & Belmont, 1993), these students' weaker relationships with their teachers appear to reduce their SOBAS in hierarchical cultures.”
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“In a controlling environment, teachers may be perceived as emotionally closed, and exhibit behaviors that interfere with or bypass students’ inner motives (in an attempt to control what students should think, feel, and do).”
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Commentary: The invisible hand of the teacher
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“Lastly, when being cold, teachers are unfriendly or even reject or exclude students [51].”
BackgroundMarcos, F. M. L., González, J. J. P., Sánchez‐Oliva, D., López-Gajardo, M. Á., & Mouratidis, A. A. (2022) · European Physical Education Review · doi:10.1177/1356336x221075501 · Cited by 55
“Two reasons led to the evaluation of these variables: first, because they are closely related to teachers’ instructional behaviours (e.g. Assor et al., 2002; Christenson et al., 2012; Mouratidis et al., 2008; Skinner and Belmont, 1993; Van den Berghe et al., 2016).”
BackgroundFacial Expression Recognition for Probing Students’ Emotional Engagement in Science Learning
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“…emotional engagement in the classroom, it is further defined as emotional learning engagement (ELE), which specifically refers to students’ emotional responses to the learning process and classroom environment, including interest and belonging (Connell & Wellborn, 1991; Skinner & Belmont, 1993).”
Gender disparities in students’ motivational experiences in high school science classrooms
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The social contagion of student engagement in school
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“Hence, engagement can be conceptualized as being both shaped by personal and social-contextual factors (Connell & Wellborn, 1991; Furrer, 2010; Skinner & Belmont, 1993).”
BackgroundAffective Engagement of Higher Education Students in an Online Course
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“Other types of indicators could be used to measure disengagement, whether emotional such as negative emotions like boredom, lack of interest, frustration and anger, sadness, and anxiety ([30, 31]), or behavioural such as being passive, giving up, withdrawal, distraction, and burnout [29], and finally Cognitive disenga…”
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“Not only is a perception of a unidirectional in uence incorrect—children’s attitudes and performance also act as important in uences upon teachers (Skinner & Belmont, 1993; this paper)—but the extent to which children are prepared to accept adults’ messages depends substantially upon consensual…”
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“Skinner and Belmont (1993) found that a child’s perceptions of teachers’ involvement can predict the successive engagement in class to a point that when children experience teachers as warm and affectionate, children feel happier and more enthusiastic in classes.”
BackgroundWeek-to-week interplay between teachers’ motivating style and students’ engagement
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“…and provision of structure (i.e., establishing a clear set of justified rules, behaving in a consistent way, and providing help and support) are positively related to students’ behavioral, cognitive and emotional engagement (Hospel & Galand, 2016; Janget al., 2010; Skinner & Belmont, 1993).”
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Keterlibatan Siswa (Student Engagement) sebagai Mediator Kompetensi Emosi dan Prestasi Akademik
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“…di Amerika dengan menelitinya secara empiris di bawah konsep keterlibatan pada sekolah (school engagement) (misalnya: Skinner, et al., 1990; Skinner & Belmont, 1993; Greenwood, 1991,1996; Steinberg, et al., 1992; Wentzel, 1993; Connell, et al., 1994; Smerdon, 1999; DiPerna & Elliott, 2000;…”
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“Engagement models typically range from two (Skinner and Belmont 1993) to four or more components (e.g. Reeve and Tseng 2011).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Skinner, E. A., & Belmont, M. J.
- Affiliations
- Portland State University (US)
- ORCID
- Skinner, Ellen A.
- Venue
- Journal of Educational Psychology
- Published
- 1993-12
- Volume
- 85
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 571-581
- ISSN
- 0022-0663 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2176
- OpenAlex
- W2165027149
- Cited by
- 3,428
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 9.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Educational Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
- Keywords
- student motivation, teacher behavior, behavioral engagement, emotional engagement, teacher participation, autonomy support, classroom structure, reciprocal effects, teacher-student relationship, intrinsic motivation, elementary school students
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