Professor Joe Elliott's Outputs (109)

Achievement motivation in real contexts (2003)
Journal Article
Elliott, J., & Hufton, N. (online). Achievement motivation in real contexts

This paper draws upon changing circumstances in Russia to raise a series of questions about the meaningfulness of much current work in the field of achievement motivation. Russian children of the former Soviet Union have traditionally been described... Read More about Achievement motivation in real contexts.

Motivation, Engagement and Educational Performance (2002)
Book
Elliott, J., Hufton, N., Illushin, L., & Willis, W. (2002). Motivation, Engagement and Educational Performance. Palgrave Press

Learning in culture and context: Approaching the complexities of achievement motivation in student learning (2002)
Book
Bempechat, J., & Elliott, J. (Eds.). (2002). Learning in culture and context: Approaching the complexities of achievement motivation in student learning. Jossey-Bass

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.

Social factors in student achievement motivation: comparison across three cultural contexts.
Journal Article
Elliott, J. (online). Social factors in student achievement motivation: comparison across three cultural contexts

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.