Birgit Spinath

TL;DR: For example, this paper examined to which extent different motivational concepts contribute to the prediction of school achievement among adolescent students independently from intelligence, and found that domain-specific ability self-perceptions and values showed the highest increments whereas achievement motives and goal orientations explained less additional variance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent to which motivation contributes to the prediction of school achievement among elementary school children beyond general mental ability (g) and found that ability self-perceptions were a better predictor than intrinsic values.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined sex differences in school achievement and found that despite equal cognitive ability, girls outperform boys in school, while boys outperform girls in academic achievement.

TL;DR: This article investigated the extent to which girls' better school attainment is associated with sex differences in intelligence, personality and school-related motivation in a sample of 1353 Austri girls in the UK.

TL;DR: In this article, a vorliegende untersuchung geht den Fragen nach a) inwiefern Lehrer lern- und leistungsrelevante Merkmale von Schulern akkurat einschatzen konnen and b) ob akkuraten Lehrerurteilen uber verschiedene Akkuratheitsindikatoren and verschyingene einzuschatzende Merkmals hinweg eine generelle Fahigkeit im