Other 'What Works' Topics
Education
By Zakia Redd, M.P.P., Jennifer Brooks, Ph.D., and Ayelish M. McGarvey
TABLE 1 TABLE 2 TABLE 3 TABLE 4 TABLE 5 TABLE 6 TABLE 7
Academic Self-Concept Achievement Motivation School Engagement Educational Expectations Academic Achievement High School Completion/Reduce High School Dropout Postsecondary Attendance and Attainment
Education

 Experimental Research Studies Non-Experimental Research Studies
Achievement Motivation

- Cooperative learning strategies
 
Individual Level

- Promote increased academic self-concept

- Promote feelings of school belonging

- Decrease the level of importance students place on having friends at school

- Promote interest in adhering to school rules

- Decrease educational risk (e.g., educational adjustment difficulties)

Family Level

- Promote parental involvement in adolescents' education

- Promote more cognitively stimulating home environments for younger children

- Promote parental autonomy-granting

Peer Level

- Promote more positive achievement motivation among adolescents' peers or alter adolescents' perceptions of their peers' achievement motivation

School Level

- Increase adolescents' feelings of support from adults at school and teachers' emphasis on mutual respect between students in their classrooms.

- Promote increased emphasis on mastery goals and decreased emphasis on learning goals at school

- Promote teachers' autonomy granting to students


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