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The Influence of Culture and Context on Students’ Motivational Orientation and Performance

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The influence of culture and context on student learning and motivation has long been documented by empirical research as mentioned in this paper, however, the topic has received special attention by education researchers, partly because of the much publicized superior achievement of Asian students compared to their Western counterparts in standardized achievement tests.
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The influence of culture and context on student learning and motivation has long been documented by empirical research. In recent years, however, the topic has received special attention by education researchers. This is partly because of the much publicized superior achievement of Asian students compared to their Western counterparts in standardized achievement tests. Among many reasons, proposed differences in cultural values (Stevenson et al., 1990), beliefs (Hess, Chang, & McDevitt, 1987; Holloway & Hess, 1990), and practices (Hess & Azuma, 1991; Salili, 1995; Stevenson & Stigler, 1992) have been the foci of many studies. These cultural values and practices are assumed to influence student motivation and subsequent achievement.

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Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control

TL;DR: SelfSelf-Efficacy (SE) as discussed by the authors is a well-known concept in human behavior, which is defined as "belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments".
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Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior

TL;DR: This chapter discusses the development of Causality Orientations Theory, a theory of personality Influences on Motivation, and its application in information-Processing Theories.
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A social-cognitive approach to motivation and personality

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a research-based model that accounts for these patterns in terms of underlying psychological processes, and place the model in its broadest context and examine its implications for our understanding of motivational and personality processes.
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Motivational and self-regulated learning components of classroom academic performance.

TL;DR: In this article, a correlational study examined relationships between motivational orientation, self-regulated learning, and classroom academic performance for 173 seventh graders from eight science and seven English classes.
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