Asian Education Miracles

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Sociocultural and Psychological Foundations of the Asian Education Miracles
Gregory Arief D. Liem and Ser Hong Tan




Cambodian Students' Motivation for Learning: The Role of Teachers and Parenting Practices
Whitney Szmodis, Sothy Eng, and Chelsea Cooper




Social Goal Orientation, Behavioral Engagement and Coping of Hong Kong Chinese Students
Rebecca Wing-yi Cheng, Bobby Fook Hin Leung, and Dennis M. McInerney




The Asian Indian Hindu Immigrant Adolescents' Experiences of Home-School Cultural Dissonance and Achievement Motivation: Do Parenting Practices Matter?
Revathy Kumar and Sarita Y. Shukla




Indonesian Students' Academic Engagement and the Role of Teachers' Teaching Behavior in Secondary Education
Ridwan Maulana, Yulia Irnidayanti, Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma, and Michelle Helms-Lorenz




Autonomous Motivation and the Need for Autonomy: Findings and New Theoretical Developments in Israel
Haya Kaplan and Avi Assor




Growing Up in the Walled Garden: Motivation, Engagement, and the Japanese Educational Experience
W. L. Quint Oga-Baldwin and Luke K. Fryer




Why Aren't Korean Students Happy? Tracing Back to the Sources of Their Academic Distress
Da-Jung Shin, Hyun Ji Lee, Jung Eun Ha, Jin Hyun Park, Elena Son, and Mimi Bong




Sociocultural Dimensions of Student Motivation: Research Approaches and Insights from the Philippines
Allan B. I. Bernardo




Exploring the Power of Teacher Feedback in Chinese Students: Testing the Relationships between Students' Feedback Beliefs and Student Engagement
Lan Yang and Min Yang




Parental Expectation and Pressure, Achievement Motivation, and Engagement of Singapore Students: A Self-determination Theory Perspective
Wenshu Luo and Yenming Zhang




Feedback as Implicit Motivational Incentives: Approach and Avoidant Achievement Motivated Singaporean University Students' Responses to Success versus Failure Feedback
Joyce S. Pang




Effort Beliefs Count: The Predictive Effects of Effort Beliefs on Students' Emotion, Attribution, and Behavior Toward Academic Failure in a Confucian Cultural Context
Shun-Wen Chen, Bih-Jen Fwu, Chih-Fen Wei, and Hsiou-Huai Wang




Expanding on the Theoretical Concept of 'Optimization' for Effective Learning: Establishing Empirical Evidence from an Eastern Sociocultural Context
Huy P. Phan and Bing Ngu




Learning Environments and Student Motivation and Engagement: A Review of Studies from Thailand
Ravinder Koul, Thanita Lerdpornkulrat, and Chanut Poondej




Relations among Various Motivational Constructs with Academic Achievement for Boys and Girls in an Arabic Cultural Context
Maher M. Abu-Hilal and Rashid Saif Almehrizi




One Asia, Diverse Cultures, Multiple Forms of Student Motivation

Ser Hong Tan and Gregory Arief D. Liem

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