Projects
With goals and motives towards a more comprehensive approach of test-taking motivation: A multilevel and multi-method research into the link between test-taking motivation and test performance. Ghent University
There is a need for a comprehensive approach to test-taking motivation that attends participants' motives and goals. This research aims to:
(1) Offer a methodological, conceptual alternative with a new instrument as unique predictor of testperformance.
(2) Investigate characteristics that influence test-taking motivation and test-performance on Central Assessments.
(3) Determine how schools influence test-taking motivation ...
Optimising physical education teachers’ motivating style via an online tailored approach: what are the effects on students’ motivation and physical activity, and teachers’ well-being? Ghent University
Regular exercise is beneficial for youth’s physical and mental health. Still, the majority is insufficiently active. Physical education teachers and more specifically their motivating style play a crucial role in motivating young people to be active. Hence the need for effective interventions targeting teachers’ motivating style. Current Self-Determination-Theory-based interventions are mostly workshop-like one-size-fits-all programs. In this ...
Promoting Athletes’ Motivation and Engagement: Towards a Refinement of Coaches’ Motivating Style Based on Self-Determination Theory KU Leuven
Besides its health-enhancing benefits, sport participation has shown to positively affect youth athletes’ psychosocial (e.g., cooperation), behavioral (e.g., being persistent), and leadership (e.g., being assertive) development (Côté, 2002; Eley & Kirk, 2002; Wright & Côté, 2003). Coaches take up a crucial role in motivating their athletes towards long-term sport participation, as they can be considered as the most important ...
The role of motor activation, motivation and the ACC in energy regulation in children with ADHD: an ERP approach Ghent University
Reading motivation as the key to reading success? Studying the relations between reading comprehension, reading frequency and reading motivation and the impact of a reading promotion Ghent University
This study will investigate which theoretical and empirical validated model can explain the relationships between reading performance, reading frequency and reading motivation in elementary schools. Furthermore, the impact of a reading promotion intervention programme on the reading motivation, frequency and comprehension of elementary school children will be explored.
Effects of motivation on visual attention: an integrated psychophysiological approach Ghent University
Attention allows to attend to relevant information in the environment while suppressing irrelevant
one. It can operate based on multiple cues available at a given time. Usually a dichotomy is
proposed in the existing literature between bottom-up (or stimulus-driven) and top-down (or
goalrelated) attention control effects. Yet, changes in motivation are usually not considered in this
dominant framework, although it can ...
Opening the black box of performance-based financing (PBF) in the health sector: a case study on motivation, rent seeking behavior and M&E in Uganda Institute of Tropical Medicine
Unlocking potential. Enhancing motivation and engagement of cognitively gifted students in regular secondary school settings. KU Leuven
Stimulating and developing talents of all young people is an important goal of education and student counseling. Educational policy in Flanders already pays extensive attention to students with specific educational needs. However, to ensure that our society can remain innovative and prosperous, it is important to focus education and student support also on students with outstanding cognitive abilities. This dissertation revolves around the ...
SMILE: cost-utility and impact of high-intensity speech therapy on Speech, MotIvation, and quality of LifE in children with cleft palate Ghent University
A cleft palate ± a cleft lip is the most prevalent congenital craniofacial defect. The societal burden of
this condition is substantial as it impacts speech, hearing, feeding, oral behavior, dentition, and
satisfaction with appearance. These consequences have a prolonged and adverse influence on social
integration and well-being. The WHO reported considerable financial costs incurred from this defect
in terms of ...