The study would develop new measures of non-cognitive outcome of schooling
on motivation, self-efficiency, self-regulation strategies, and beliefs
about learning. The study addresses the concern of the effect of beliefs
and strategies on cognitive growth. These measures could be used in the
MSP Projects to assess effects of the various interventions on students.
The study would gather large pools of survey data by working with the
Math and Science Partnership projects as well as other sites and would
analyze these data with sophisticated statistical models. The study will
be significantly large enough to include a specific examination of underrepresented
groups. The goal of the investigators is to make new tools for assessing
student motivation generally available to MSP projects to be used for
increasing teachers knowledge about the role of these beliefs, and assist
them in helping students. Also, the tools are intended to assist MSPs
evaluate the effectiveness of their implementation.
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