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Professor Joe Elliott's Outputs (72)

Thinking Skills Frameworks for Use in Education and Training (2005)
Journal Article
Moseley, D., Elliott, J., Gregson, M., & Higgins, S. (2005). Thinking Skills Frameworks for Use in Education and Training. British Educational Research Journal, 31(3), 367-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411920500082219

This article details findings from a systematic review and evaluation of frameworks and taxonomies for understanding thinking, with particular reference to learning in post-16 contexts. It describes the means used to identify and evaluate 35 framewor... Read More about Thinking Skills Frameworks for Use in Education and Training.

Dynamic Assessment in Educational Settings: Realising Potential (2003)
Journal Article
Elliott, J. (2003). Dynamic Assessment in Educational Settings: Realising Potential. Educational Review, 55(1), 15-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131910303253

This paper outlines current developments in dynamic assessment, an approach that has great intuitive appeal for many professional psychologists and teachers, yet which has, to date, failed to take root in mainstream practice. In highlighting the natu... Read More about Dynamic Assessment in Educational Settings: Realising Potential.

Educational Motivation and Engagement: qualitative accounts from three countries (2002)
Journal Article
Hufton., N., Elliott, J., & Illushin, L. (2002). Educational Motivation and Engagement: qualitative accounts from three countries. British Educational Research Journal, 28(2), 265-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411920120122185

This article extends and develops earlier survey studies by reporting findings from detailed interviews with adolescents in Sunderland, Kentucky and St Petersburg. The interviews sought to examine a number of key factors underpinning educational moti... Read More about Educational Motivation and Engagement: qualitative accounts from three countries.

The Kids Are Doing All Right': Differences in Parental Satisfaction, Expectation, and Attribution in St. Petersburg, Sunderland, and Kentucky (2001)
Journal Article
Elliott, J., Hufton, N., Illushin, L., & Willis, W. (2001). The Kids Are Doing All Right': Differences in Parental Satisfaction, Expectation, and Attribution in St. Petersburg, Sunderland, and Kentucky. Cambridge Journal of Education, 31(2), 179-204

Explores children's attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in Sunderland (United Kingdom), Eastern Kentucky, and St. Petersburg (Russia) by surveying parental perspectives. States that findings from these three regions reinforce earlier findings about Bri... Read More about The Kids Are Doing All Right': Differences in Parental Satisfaction, Expectation, and Attribution in St. Petersburg, Sunderland, and Kentucky.

Motivation in the junior years: international perspectives on children's attitudes, expectations and behaviour and their relationship to educational achievement (2001)
Journal Article
Elliott, J., Hufton, N., Illushin, L., & Lauchlan, F. (2001). Motivation in the junior years: international perspectives on children's attitudes, expectations and behaviour and their relationship to educational achievement. Oxford Review of Education, 27(1), 37-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054980123436

This paper reports findings from a large-scale international investigation of a number of factors that are considered to impact upon educational motivation and achievement. Following on from an earlier investigation of adolescent attitudes, the prese... Read More about Motivation in the junior years: international perspectives on children's attitudes, expectations and behaviour and their relationship to educational achievement.

Achievement Motivation across Cultures: Some Puzzles and Their Implications for Future Research
Journal Article
Hufton, N., Elliott, J., & Illushin, L. (online). Achievement Motivation across Cultures: Some Puzzles and Their Implications for Future Research. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 65-85

Discusses findings of a cross-cultural study of the relation between self-perception of academic competence and achievement, and attribution of achievement to effort or ability. Considers problems in fitting Anglo-American motivation theory with Russ... Read More about Achievement Motivation across Cultures: Some Puzzles and Their Implications for Future Research.

The Culture and Contexts of Achievement Motivation
Journal Article
Elliott, J., & Bempechat, J. (online). The Culture and Contexts of Achievement Motivation. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 7-26

Argues that the psychosocial bases of achievement motivation, when integrated with principles of cultural anthropology and cultural psychology, will move both theory and research forward. Maintains that researchers should contextualize research quest... Read More about The Culture and Contexts of Achievement Motivation.