International Guide to Student Achievement

Introduction J. Hattie and E. Anderman Section 1. Understanding Achievement E. Anderman and J. Hattie 1.1 Defining student achievement Thomas R. Guskey 1.2 Academic Achievement: An Elementary School Perspective Alan Bates, Rena Shifflet and Miranda Lin 1.3 Academic Achievement: An Adolescent Perspective R. Trent Haines and Christian E. Mueller 1.4 Adult Education and Achievement M Cecil Smith 1.5 Academic Achievement: A Higher Education Perspective Terrell L. Strayhorn 1.6 Developmental Education for Adults and Academic Achievement Joshua D. Hawley and Shu Chen Chiang Section 2. Influences from the Student Mimi Bong 2.1 Entry to School Collette Tayler 2.2 Piagetian Approaches Philip Adey and Michael Shayer 2.3 Entry to Tertiary Education Emer Smyth 2.4 Physical activity Janet Clinton 2.5 Gender influences Judith Gill 2.6 Engagement and Opportunity to Learn Phillip L. Ackerman 2.7 Behavioral Engagement in Learning Jennifer Fredricks 2.8 Goal Setting and Academic Achievement Dominique Morisano and Edwin A. Locke 2.9 Self Reported Grades and GPA Marcus Crede and Nathan R. Kuncel 2.10. Conceptual Change Stella Vosniadou and Panagiotis Tsoumakis 2.11 Social motivation and academic motivation Tim Urdan 2.12 Attitudes and dispositions Robert D. Renaud 2.13 Personality influences Meera Komarraju 2.14 Academic self-concept Herbert W. Marsh and Marjorie Seaton 2.15 Self efficacy Mimi Bong 2.16 Motivation Dale H. Schunk and Carol A. Mullen 2.17 Friendship in school Annemaree Carroll, Stephen Houghton and Sasha Lynn 2.18 Indigenous and Other Mino