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DOI:10.1177/0042085907300447 - Corpus ID: 46027371
@article{Long2007AcademicMA, title={Academic Motivation and Achievement Among Urban Adolescents}, author={Joyce F. Long and Shinichi Monoi and Brian E. Harper and Dee Knoblauch and P. Karen Murphy}, journal={Urban Education}, year={2007}, volume={42}, pages={196 - 222}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:46027371}}- Joyce F. Long, Shinichi Monoi, P. K. Murphy
- Published 1 May 2007
- Education, Psychology, Sociology
- Urban Education
Although researchers report that motivational variables, such as interest and self-efficacy, positively relate to forms of achievement (e.g., standardized test scores, grades, number of problems solved correctly), other studies indicate that motivation's contribution to achievement is not consistent. Fewer studies, however, have examined these connections within African American samples. This 2-year, cross-sectional investigation of eighth- and ninth-grade students specifically focused on…
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