The evidence map reveals gaps: little is known about motivation regulation in pre- and primary school children, its development across school years, and its contextual characteristics¶
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Evidence · 1 study · reviewr3·q3
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2030: baselines and conditions change
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q3 i? Little is known about motivation regulation in pre- and primary school children and its development across school years. → Maike Trautner 2025
q3 i? Despite conceptualization of self-regulation as context dependent, contextual characteristics have received little empirical attention. → Maike Trautner 2025
Evidence¶
Maike Trautner 2025¶
Maike Trautner, Carola Grunschel, Malte Schwinger. (2025). Motivating Motivation Regulation Research—An Evidence and Gap Map Approach. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-10019-1
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Gap analysis of the evidence and gap map built from the 289 included studies, identifying cells with absent or sparse evidence. The review reports that "we still know little about motivation regulation in pre- and primary school children and its development across school years" and that contextual characteristics have received little attention despite self-regulation being conceptualized as context dependent.
"The maps' gaps reveal that we still know little about motivation regulation in pre- and primary school children and its development across school years. Furthermore, despite the conceptualization of self-regulation as a context dependent construct, contextual characteristics have received little attention."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Prior work has elucidated factors contributing to middle and high school students' perceptions, but less is known about elementary students' perceptions — related
- Of 289 studies on motivation regulation, approximately three quarters examined university students, used cross-sectional designs, and relied on self-report questionnaires — related
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The evidence map reveals gaps: little is known about motivation regulation in pre- and primary school children, its development across school years, and its contextual characteristics |
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The evidence map reveals gaps: little is known about motivation regulation in pre- and primary school children, its development across school years, and its contextual characteristics |
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