New journal article published in Contemporary Educational Psychology
beginning of the semester. In addition, the motivational alignment was significantly greater for students who failed their math course or dropped out of their math course during the semester compared to those [...] son alignment of students’ course-specific expectancies and intrinsic/utility values across the semester. This alignment was linked to unidirectional spillover effects (i.e., cross-lagged effects) from [...] may show different developmental processes, that motivational alignment and spillover processes contribute to motivational declines in gateway math courses, and that these processes can indicate a greater …
