- Title
- Student attitudes towards learning in differentiated settings
- Creator
- Kronborg, Leonie; Plunkett, Margaret; Kelly, Liz; Urquhart, Felicity
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/39202
- Identifier
- vital:6323
- Identifier
- ISSN:1323-9686
- Abstract
- This research examined the attitudes of Year 7 students in an independent girls' school in Melbourne, towards the learning environment in their English, mathematics and science classes. Whilst science classes at the school were not explicitly differentiated on the basis of ability, an Extended Curriculum Program (ECP) operated for English and maths classes. Fifty-eight Year 7 students completed surveys examining their perceptions towards achievement, motivational orientation and overall satisfaction with their classes. Results indicated that students with involvement in extended curriculum classes had more positive perceptions of these classes but their overall attitude towards learning in the mainstream environment was also more positive. A finding of particular interest was that ECP students rated themselves as more intrinsically and less extrinsically motivated than peers in mainstream mixed-ability classes and thus had motivational orientations that were more likely to be associated with achievement, even in mixed ability settings.
- Relation
- Australasian Journal of Gifted Education Vol. 17, no. 2 (2008), p. 23-32
- Rights
- Copyright Australian Association for the Education of Gifted and Talented
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1303 Specialist Studies In Education
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