Early Adolescents' Perceptions of the Classroom Social Environment, Motivational Beliefs, and Engagement

I. Title - Early Adolescents' Perceptions of the Classroom Social Environment, Motivational Beliefs, and Engagement

II. Authors - Helen Patrick, Allison Ryan, Avi Kaplan

III. Author's Purpose for Writing - To examine the role of classroom social environment and how it influences student engagement and performance

IV. What are the points made in the review of the literature? In classrooms where mutual respect is promoted, students are freed from concern about ridicule and are able to concentrate on processing the task. Students motivational beliefs did mediate association between the classroom social environment and engagement

Do they support the need for the study? Yes.

V. Author's Inquiry Question - How do student perceptions of various aspects of the classroom social environment relate to their engagement in math?

VI. Author's Methodology - Analyze data on students from several schools

A. Who is being studied? 602 5th graders from 31 classes in 6 schools in Illinois

B. Over what length of time? That information was not given

C. What data is being collected? surveys, measures of academic engagement, school records

D. How is it being analyzed ? multivariate analysis, structured equation modeling

E. Any other interesting or pertinent data - student grades did not assess deep understanding

VII. How the author collected information - surveys were administered and collected in

one setting

VIII. What the author disccovered or conclusions/implications - When students feel emotionally supported by the teacher, they are likely to engage more fully and have higher achievement

and engage in self-regulatory strategies and task-related interaction. Adaptive classroom social environments enhance students' focus on mastery and feelings of efficacy and facilitate engagement.