EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
OF EDUCATION
VOL.XIV, NO.1,MAR.1999

SPECIAL THEME: ADVANCES IN MOTIVATION FROM THE EUROPEAN VIEWPOINT

Introduction
Monique Boekaerts, Peter Nenniger

Motivation and activity
Joachim Lompscher

Interest, motivation, and learning: An educational-psychological perspective
Andreas Krapp

Motivated learning: Studying student * situation transactional units
Monique Boekaerts

Individual differences in school mathematics performance and feelings
of difficulty: The effects of cogpjtjve ability; affect, age, and gender

Anastasia Efkfides, Maria Papadaki,
Georgia Papantoniou, Grigoris Kiosseoglou

On the role of motivation in self-directed learning. The "two-shells-model
of motivated self-directed learning" as a structural explanatory concept

Peter Nenniger

' ORDINARY ARTICLES

Individual strategies in a spatial task and how they relate to aptitudes
Pascale-Elsa Erne, Josette Marquer

Formal reasoning performance of higher secondary school students:
Theoretical and educational implications

Nicos Valanides

Gender, task contexts, and children's performance on a computer-based task

Karen Uttleton, Helen Ashman, Paul Light, Jayne Artis,
Tony Roberts, Annerieke Oosterwegel

A typology of the three-year-old twin sibling relationship drawn.
from two different environments: School and home

Monique Robin

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION
Vol. 14, NO.2, JUNE 1999

Introduction .......................................................................................................................................163
Wolfgang Schnotz

Networks of law encoding diagrams for understanding science ........................................................... 167
Peter C-H. Cheng

Structuring and sequencing of complex text-picture combinations ....................................................... 185
Bernd Weidenmann, Manuela Paechter, Klaus Hartmaniisgruber

Static and animated graphics in learning from interactive texts ............................................................. 203
Patricia Wright, Robert Milroy, Ann Lickerish

Extrating information from an animation during complex visual learning ............................................... 225
Richard K. Lowe

Individual and co-operative learning with interactive animated pictures ............................................... 245
Wolfgang Schnotz, Harriet Grzondziel

Spatial metaphors and writing hypertexts: A study within schools ....................................................... 267
Rainer Bromine, Elmar Stahl

Spatial ability and transformational geometry ...................................................................................... 283
John R. Kirby, Douglas R. Boulter

Issues for deeper understanding of visual learning processes and representations ................................ 295
Susan R. Goidman

Books received..................................................................................................................................301

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION
VOL. XIV, NO. 1, MARCH 1999





SPECIAL THEME: ADVANCES IN MOTIVATION FROM THE EUROPEAN VIEWPOINT

Introduction................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Monique Boekaerts, Peter Nenniger


Motivation and activity .................................................................................................................................................... 11
Joachim Lompscher


Interest, motivation, and learning: An educational-psychological perspective ...................................................................... 23
Andreas Krapp


Motivated learning: Studying student * situation transactional units .................................................................................... 41
Monique Boekaerts


Individual differences in school mathematics performance and feelings of difficulty:
The effects of cognitive ability, affect, age, and gender ........................................................... ........................................... 57
Anastasia Efklides, Maria Papadaki, Georgia Papantoniou, Grigoris Kiosseoglou


On the role of motivation in self-directed learning. The "two-shells-model of motivated
self-directed learning" as a structural explanatory concept ................................................................................................. 71
Peter Nenniger


ORDINARY ARTICLES
Individual strategies in a spatial task and how they relate to aptitudes .................................... .......................................... 89
Pascale-Elsa Erne, Josette Marquer


Formal reasoning performance of higher secondary school students: Theoretical and educational
implications................................................................................................................................................................... 109
Nicos Valanides



Gender, task contexts, and children's performance on a computer-based task ......................... ......................................129
Karen Littleton, Helen Ashman, Paul Light, Jayne Artis, Tony Roberts,
Annerieke Oosterwegel


A typology of the three-year-old twin sibling relationship drawn from two different
environments: School and home .................................................................................................................................... 141

Monique Robin

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