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37
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9224
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4883

Overview

Jianzhong Xu is affiliated with Mississippi State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and psychology, with a substantial focus on education within these fields.

Their work concentrates on several key topics including:

  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Family and Disability Support Research

Xu's research appears prominently in several frequent publication venues, reflecting the thematic scope of their scholarly contributions. These venues include:

  • Current Psychology
  • Learning and Individual Differences
  • Psychology in the Schools
  • Metacognition and Learning
  • Learning and Motivation

Among Xu's recent papers are:

  • "Extending a model of homework: a multilevel analysis with Chinese middle school students" (2022), published in Metacognition and Learning
  • "Student perceptions of homework quality, autonomy support, effort, and math achievement: Testing models of reciprocal effects" (2021), published in Teaching and Teacher Education
  • "Intrinsic motivation, favorability, time management, and achievement: A cross-lagged panel analysis" (2020), published in Learning and Motivation
  • "A profile analysis of online assignment motivation: Combining achievement goal and expectancy-value perspectives" (2021), published in Computers & Education
  • "More than minutes: A person-centered approach to homework time, homework time management, and homework procrastination" (2022), published in Contemporary Educational Psychology

Their collaborative relationships include frequent co-authorship with several scholars such as Chuang Wang, José Carlos Núñez, Jianxia Du, Fuyi Yang, and Meilu Sun. These partnerships have contributed to advancing research in education and psychology.

Xu's main fields of study are social sciences with 106 publications and psychology with 63 publications. Subfields of particular concentration include education, clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sociology and political science. This distribution demonstrates a multidisciplinary approach within the broader scope of educational and psychological research.

Best Publications

  • Case studies of families doing third-grade homework.

    Jianzhong Xu;Lyn Corno

  • Homework as the Job of Childhood.

    Lyn Corno;Jianzhong Xu

  • Family Help and Homework Management Reported by Middle School Students

    Jianzhong Xu;Lyn Corno

  • Homework and students ' achievement in math and science: A 30-year meta-analysis, 1986-2015

    Huiyong Fan;Jianzhong Xu;Zhihui Cai;Jinbo He

  • Purposes for Doing Homework Reported by Middle and High School Students

    Jianzhong Xu

  • Self-Regulation of Homework Behavior: Homework Management at the Secondary School Level

    Jianzhong Xu;Hongyun Wu

  • Doing Homework: Listening to Students,' Parents,' and Teachers' Voices in One Urban Middle School Community

    Jianzhong Xu;Ruiping Yuan

  • Family Help and Homework Management in Urban and Rural Secondary Schools.

    Jianzhong Xu

  • Homework Completion at the Secondary School Level: A Multilevel Analysis

    Jianzhong Xu

  • Gender and Homework Management Reported by High School Students

    Jianzhong Xu

  • Models of Secondary School Students' Interest in Homework: A Multilevel Analysis.

    Jianzhong Xu

  • Predicting homework time management at the secondary school level: A multilevel analysis

    Jianzhong Xu

  • Promoting Student Interest in Science The Perspectives of Exemplary African American Teachers

    Jianzhong Xu;Linda T. Coats;Mary L. Davidson

  • Gender, Family Help, and Homework Management Reported by Rural Middle School Students.

    Jianzhong Xu;Lyn Corno

  • Investigating factors that influence conventional distraction and tech-related distraction in math homework

    Jianzhong Xu

  • Middle‐School Homework Management: More than just gender and family involvement

    Jianzhong Xu

  • Validation of Scores on the Homework Management Scale for High School Students

    Jianzhong Xu

  • School Location, Student Achievement, and Homework Management Reported by Middle School Students.

    Jianzhong Xu

  • Modeling students' time management in math homework

    Jianzhong Xu;Ruiping Yuan;Brian Xu;Melinda Xu

  • Validation of Scores on the Homework Management Scale for Middle School Students

    Jianzhong Xu

  • Homework Purpose Scale for High School Students: A Validation Study

    Jianzhong Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Xitao Fan
Xitao Fan Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pedro Rosário
Pedro Rosário University of Minho
José Carlos Núñez
José Carlos Núñez University of Oviedo
Antonio Valle
Antonio Valle University of A Coruña

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