Research on motivation has long shown that students’ perceived academic competence is critical for supporting their positive academic outcomes. Perceived academic competence refers to students’ confidence about their ability to do well in schoolwork. More recently, researchers have started to ...

How much students value school and schoolwork will have a significant bearing on many educational outcomes, including their engagement, learning and achievement. In numerous ways, COVID-19 has impacted students’ valuing of school and schoolwork. In this article, I want to ...

In her ongoing search to discover how to improve student academic performance and to encourage high levels of self-motivated educational engagement, Carol Dweck set out to test the hypothesis of three rules she considered as being valuable when teaching children. The ...

Research informs that feelings of social connectedness, attachment, belonging, self-efficacy and self-confidence also help to develop and advance a student’s physical, mental, psychological, social and emotional security, and their overall wellbeing. All of this helps to develop and provide further ...