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Contextual Influences on Motivation: Values, Beliefs, and Situational Dynamics

Sat, April 11, 9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT), Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, Santa Barbara C

Session Type: Paper Session

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This session examines how motivation is shaped by the dynamic interplay of students’ values, beliefs, and learning contexts. Papers address multiple levels of analysis and diverse educational settings to reveal both stability and situational sensitivity in motivational processes. One study demonstrates how environmental values moderate the effects of teacher support on science motivation, while another highlights the role of self-efficacy–value alignment in predicting achievement and engagement. Additional contributions use multilevel and longitudinal approaches to explore links among motivation, multitasking, and engagement, identify distinct motivational trajectories with long-term implications, and test the replicability of situated motivational dynamics across contexts. Collectively, these studies illuminate the complex, context-dependent nature of motivation and its consequences for learning and persistence.

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