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The long-term effects of strategy-focussed writing instruction for grade six students. Raquel Fidalgo, Mark Torrance, Jesffls-Nicasio Garca .................... 672
Patricia A. Alexander University of Maryland
Is effort praise motivational? The role of beliefs in the effort–ability relationship. Shui-fong Lam, Pui-shan Yim, Yee-lam Ng ........................................... 694
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Measuring need for closure in classroom learners. Teresa K. DeBacker, H. Michael Crowson ............................................................................................. 711 Selecting learning tasks: Effects of adaptation and shared control on learning efficiency and task involvement. Gemma Corbalan, Liesbeth Kester, Jeroen J.G. van Merrinboer............................................................................................. 733 The comparative efficacy of two approaches to teaching sixth graders opinion essay writing. Bernice Y.L. Wong, Maureen Hoskyn, Debbie Jai, Patty Ellis, Kim Watson........................................................................................................... 757 How domain specific is motivation and engagement across school, sport, and music? A substantive–methodological synergy assessing young sportspeople and musicians. Andrew J. Martin ........................................................ 785 Are sophisticated students always better? The role of topic-specific personal epistemology in the understanding of multiple expository texts. Ivar Brten, Helge I. Strømsø, Marit S. Samuelstuen................................................. 814 Urban adolescentsÕ exercise intentions and behaviors: An exploratory study of a trans-contextual model. Bo Shen, Nate McCaughtry, Jeffrey Martin ........ 841 How the relationship between text and headings influences readersÕ memory. Kristin Ritchey, Jonathan Schuster, Jaryn Allen .............................. 859 The influence of self-efficacy and metacognitive prompting on math problemsolving efficiency. Bobby Hoffman, Alexandru Spatariu ................................ 875 Increasing interest in social studies: Social perspective taking and self-efficacy in stimulating simulations. Hunter Gehlbach, Scott W. Brown, Andri Ioannou, Mark A. Boyer, Natalie Hudson, Anat Niv-Solomon, Donalyn Maneggia, Laura Janik .......................................................................................... 894 Academic procrastination of undergraduates: Low self-efficacy to self-regulate predicts higher levels of procrastination. Robert M. Klassen, Lindsey L. Krawchuk, Sukaina Rajani.................................................................................... 915 Spanish-speaking childrenÕs spelling errors with English vowel sounds that are represented by different graphemes in English and Spanish words. M. Kendra Sun-Alperin, Min Wang........................................................................... 932
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