International Guide to Student Achievement

John Hattie is Professor and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland. The author of the international bestsellers Visible Learning and Visible Learning for Teachers, he has served as President of the International Text Commission, and associate editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology. He has published and presented over 550 papers and has supervised 160 theses students.Eric Anderman is Professor of Educational Psychology and Chair of the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. In 1999 he was awarded the Richard E. Snow Early Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) and he served as President of Division 15 of APA in 2008. In addition to authoring and editing several books, he has served on the editorial boards of several major journals and as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology from 2002-2009.

"International Guide to Student Achievement is a weighty college-level examination that draws together various theories and the latest international research on what makes students into achievers, and is a top recommendation for educators who would look at not another strategy-oriented guide, but a compilation of research that considers all the major influences known to shape student academic roles in various countries around the world. This international approach considers a range of options and tested ideas that can be crafted to any school setting, and is explored in over 150 entries that mix new educational insights into an approach easy to add to existing school routines." - James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review

• Introduction J. Hattie and E. Anderman Section 1. Understanding Achievement E. Anderman and J. Hattie 1.1 Defining student achievement Thomas R. Guskey 1.2 Academic Achievement: An Elementary School Perspective Alan Bates, Rena Shifflet and Miranda Lin 1.3 Academic Achievement: An Adolescent Perspective R. Trent Haines and Christian E. Mueller 1.4 Adult Education and Achievement M Cecil Smith 1.5 Academic Achievement: A Higher Education Perspective Terrell L. Strayhorn 1.6 Developmental Education for Adults and Academic Achievement Joshua D. Hawley and Shu Chen Chiang Section 2. Influences from the Student Mimi Bong 2.1 Entry to School Collette Tayler 2.2 Piagetian Approaches Philip Adey and Michael Shayer 2.3 Entry to Tertiary Education Emer Smyth 2.4 Physical activity Janet Clinton 2.5 Gender influences Judith Gill 2.6 Engagement and Opportunity to Learn Phillip L. Ackerman 2.7 Behavioral Engagement in Learning Jennifer Fredricks 2.8 Goal Setting and Academic Achievement Dominique Morisano and Edwin A. Locke 2.9 Self Reported Grades and GPA Marcus Credé and Nathan R. Kuncel 2.10. Conceptual Change Stella Vosniadou and Panagiotis Tsoumakis 2.11 Social motivation and academic motivation Tim Urdan 2.12 Attitudes and dispositions Robert D. Renaud 2.13 Personality influences Meera Komarraju 2.14 Academic self-concept Herbert W. Marsh and Marjorie Seaton 2.15 Self efficacy Mimi Bong 2.16 Motivation Dale H. Schunk and Carol A. Mullen 2.17 Friendship in school Annemaree Carroll, Stephen Houghton and Sasha Lynn 2.18 Indigenous and Other Mino