1st Edition
Asian Education Miracles In Search of Sociocultural and Psychological Explanations
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About the Authors
- Sociocultural and Psychological Foundations of the Asian Education Miracles
- Cambodian Students’ Motivation for Learning: The Role of Teachers and Parenting Practices
- Social Goal Orientation, Behavioral Engagement and Coping of Hong Kong Chinese Students
- The Asian Indian Hindu Immigrant Adolescents’ Experiences of Home-School Cultural Dissonance and Achievement Motivation: Do Parenting Practices Matter?
- Indonesian Students’ Academic Engagement and the Role of Teachers’ Teaching Behavior in Secondary Education
- Autonomous Motivation and the Need for Autonomy: Findings and New Theoretical Developments in Israel
- Growing Up in the Walled Garden: Motivation, Engagement, and the Japanese Educational Experience
- Why Aren’t Korean Students Happy? Tracing Back to the Sources of Their Academic Distress
- Sociocultural Dimensions of Student Motivation: Research Approaches and Insights from the Philippines
- Exploring the Power of Teacher Feedback in Chinese Students: Testing the Relationships between Students’ Feedback Beliefs and Student Engagement
- Parental Expectation and Pressure, Achievement Motivation, and Engagement of Singapore Students: A Self-determination Theory Perspective
- Feedback as Implicit Motivational Incentives: Approach and Avoidant Achievement Motivated Singaporean University Students’ Responses to Success versus Failure Feedback
- Effort Beliefs Count: The Predictive Effects of Effort Beliefs on Students’ Emotion, Attribution, and Behavior Toward Academic Failure in a Confucian Cultural Context
- Expanding on the Theoretical Concept of ‘Optimization’ for Effective Learning: Establishing Empirical Evidence from an Eastern Sociocultural Context
- Learning Environments and Student Motivation and Engagement: A Review of Studies from Thailand
- Relations among Various Motivational Constructs with Academic Achievement for Boys and G
Gregory Arief D. Liem and Ser Hong Tan
Whitney Szmodis, Sothy Eng, and Chelsea Cooper
Rebecca Wing-yi Cheng, Bobby Fook Hin Leung, and Dennis M. McInerney
Revathy Kumar and Sarita Y. Shukla
Ridwan Maulana, Yulia Irnidayanti, Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma, and Michelle Helms-Lorenz
Haya Kaplan and Avi Assor
W. L. Quint Oga-Baldwin and Luke K. Fryer
Da-Jung Shin, Hyun Ji Lee, Jung Eun Ha, Jin Hyun Park, Elena Son, and Mimi Bong
Allan B. I. Bernardo
Lan Yang and Min Yang
Wenshu Luo and Yenming Zhang
Joyce S. Pang
Shun-Wen Chen, Bih-Jen Fwu, Chih-Fen Wei, and Hsiou-Huai Wang
Huy P. Phan and Bing Ngu
Ravinder Koul, Thanita Lerdpornkulrat, and Chanut Poondej
Biography
Gregory Arief D. Liem is an Associate Professor at the Psychological Studies Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, School Psychology International, and The Asia Pacific Journal of Education. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, and the Asia-Pacific Education Researcher. He is the book series editor of "Research on Sociocultural Influences on Learning and Motivation" (Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, North Carolina). His research interest mainly centers on understanding student motivation, engagement, and well-being through a sociocultural lens. Email: [email protected]
Ser Hong Tan is a PhD candidate at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research areas look into motives as well as achievement motivation. Specifically, she studies achievement goals and how they guide students’ motivational and educational outcomes. She is also interested in understanding how different cultures shape individuals’ mindsets which in turn affect their motivation. Email: [email protected]






