Autonomy support, personality, and mindset in predicting academic performance among early adolescents: The mediating role of self-determined motivation.

CITATION: Mammadov, S., & Tozoglu, D. (2023). Autonomy support, personality, and mindset in predicting academic performance among early adolescents: The mediating role of self-determined motivation. Psychology in the Schools, 60, 3754–3769. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22966 This paper supports a tenet that is highly unsurprising: Young adolescents—that is, middle school students—who are very conscientious and who have high levels of autonomy support from teachers and parentsContinue reading “Autonomy support, personality, and mindset in predicting academic performance among early adolescents: The mediating role of self-determined motivation.”

Self-determination theory: An approach to motivation in music education

ANNOTATION: Evans, Paul (2015). Self-determination theory: An approach to motivation in music education. Musicae Scientiae, 19(1), 65-83. doi: 10.1177/10298649/4568044. Though numerous motivational models have been previously applied to understand motivation in music learning, no theoretical framework has been universally accepted. In this article, Evans provides an argument for Self-Determination Theory as an ideal theoretical modelContinue reading “Self-determination theory: An approach to motivation in music education”