What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Statistics
- Education
- Social psychology
Tim Urdan focuses on Developmental psychology, Academic achievement, Social psychology, Self-handicapping and Goal orientation.
His work carried out in the field of Developmental psychology brings together such families of science as Self-efficacy and Sense of agency.
His Academic achievement study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Collective efficacy and Learning disability.
Tim Urdan interconnects Procrastination and Goal structure in the investigation of issues within Self-handicapping.
His Goal orientation research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Confirmatory factor analysis, Goal theory and Competence.
Tim Urdan has included themes like Construct validity and Test validity in his Goal theory study.
His most cited work include:
- Self-efficacy beliefs of adolescents (746 citations)
- The Development and Validation of Scales Assessing Students' Achievement Goal Orientations (622 citations)
- Classroom effects on student motivation: Goal structures, social relationships, and competence beliefs (475 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His primary areas of investigation include Mathematics education, Academic achievement, Social psychology, Goal theory and Developmental psychology.
His Mathematics education research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Test validity, Volume and Achievement test.
His biological study deals with issues like Perception, which deal with fields such as Multilevel model.
His work in the fields of Social psychology, such as Self-concept, Self-esteem and Interpersonal relationship, overlaps with other areas such as Obligation.
His Goal theory research includes themes of Variety and Goal orientation.
His work deals with themes such as Self-efficacy, Association, Adaptive learning and Goal structure, which intersect with Developmental psychology.
He most often published in these fields:
- Mathematics education (28.77%)
- Academic achievement (24.66%)
- Social psychology (24.66%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2009-2020)?
- Pedagogy (17.81%)
- Mathematics education (28.77%)
- Developmental psychology (19.18%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Tim Urdan mainly focuses on Pedagogy, Mathematics education, Developmental psychology, Statistics and Educational psychology.
Tim Urdan studies Pedagogy, focusing on Goal theory in particular.
His study looks at the intersection of Mathematics education and topics like Applied psychology with Self-handicapping, Goal structure, Goal pursuit, Construct and Goal orientation.
His Developmental psychology study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Cultural competence and Association.
The various areas that he examines in his Educational psychology study include Academic achievement, Self-concept, Social psychology and Psychoanalysis.
His study in Academic achievement is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Structural equation modeling and Behavioral engagement.
Between 2009 and 2020, his most popular works were:
- APA Educational Psychology Handbook. (93 citations)
- APA educational psychology handbook, Vol 2: Individual differences and cultural and contextual factors. (47 citations)
- The Challenges and Promise of Research on Classroom Goal Structures (32 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Statistics
- Education
- Social psychology
His primary scientific interests are in Educational psychology, Developmental psychology, Pedagogy, Academic achievement and Goal theory.
His Educational psychology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Feeling and Psychoanalysis.
His Developmental psychology study incorporates themes from Cultural competence, Social psychology and Association.
His work on Educational assessment as part of general Pedagogy research is frequently linked to Engineering ethics, thereby connecting diverse disciplines of science.
His Academic achievement research includes themes of Cognitive style, Social cognition and Library science.
The concepts of his Goal theory study are interwoven with issues in Variety and Field.
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