Abstracts
Résumé
Le passage du primaire au secondaire représente un stress pour la majorité des élèves, sans qu’ils le perçoivent pour autant comme une étape entièrement négative. Jusqu’à maintenant, aucune étude n’a examiné les liens entre les anticipations des élèves de sixième année du primaire à l’égard du secondaire et leur profil motivationnel. La présente étude vise à comprendre comment les anticipations positives et négatives chez 793 élèves sont liées à des variables particulières. Les analyses font voir que l’optimisme, la hâte d’aller au secondaire, les buts d’apprentissage et la conception de l’intelligence sont reliés aux anticipations positives. Les mêmes variables présentent aussi des liens avec les anticipations négatives, le sexe des élèves et leur sentiment d’efficacité.
Abstract
The transition between primary school and high school represents a stressing event for the majority of the students. However, they do not perceive that transition as an entirely negative experience. Until today, no study has focused on the relationship between six graders’ anticipations towards high school and their motivational profile. The main objective of the present study is to understand how the positive and negative anticipations of 793 pupils are related to particular variables. The results of the analyses show that optimism, the eagerness to go to high school, the learning goals and the conception of intelligence are connected to positive anticipations. Those same variables are also related to negative anticipations, as well as to pupils’ gender and their feeling of effectiveness.
Resumen
La transición de la primaria a la secundaria representa un acontecimiento estresante para la mayoría de los alumnos, sin por eso que lo vean como una etapa totalmente negativa. Hasta ahora, ningún estudio ha examinado las relaciones entre las anticipaciones de los alumnos de sexto grado de primaria hacia la secundaria y su perfil motivacional. El presente estudio tiene por propósito entender cómo las anticipaciones positivas y negativas en 793 alumnos son ligadas a variables particulares. Los resultados de los análisis demuestran que el optimismo, el deseo anticipado de llegar a la secundaria, las metas de aprendizaje y la concepción de la inteligencia son relacionados con anticipaciones positivas. Asimismo, las mismas variables presentan relaciones con las anticipaciones negativas, el sexo de los alumnos y su sentimiento de eficacia.
Zusammenfassung
Die Versetzung von der Grundschule zur Sekundarstufe erweist sich für die Mehrheit der Schüler als ein stressiges Ereignis, ohne daß es von ihnen als ein total negativer Abschnitt angesehen wird. Bis heute hat noch keine Studie die Zusammenhänge zwischen den Erwartungen der Schüler der sechsten Grundschulklasse im Hinblick auf die Sekundarstufe, und dem Motivationsprofil, untersucht. Die gegenwärtige Studie zielt darauf ab, zu verstehen, wie die positiven und negativen Erwartungen bei 793 Schulern mit besonderen Variablen zusammenhängen. Die Ergebnisse der Analyse zeigen, daß der Optimismus, die Eile in die Sekundarstufe zu gelangen, die Lernziele und die Intelligenzkonzeption an positive Erwartungen gebunden sind. Die gleichen Variablen zeigen auch den Zusammenhang mit negativen Erwartungen, dem Geschlecht der Schüler und ihr Empfinden fuer Leistungsfähigkeit.
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