Amanda R. Butz

ORCID: 0000-0002-0109-7831
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Research Areas
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Career Development and Diversity
  • Mentoring and Academic Development
  • Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Education Systems and Policy
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Occupational Therapy Practice and Research
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Education and Islamic Studies
  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • Online Learning and Analytics
  • Mathematics Education and Pedagogy
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Counseling Practices and Supervision
  • Cultural Differences and Values

University of Wisconsin–Madison
2018-2023

Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
2023

University of Kentucky
2013-2015

Psychological factors such as grit and self-efficacy have been heralded powerful predictors of performance. Their joint contribution to the prediction early adolescents’ school success has not fully investigated, however. The purpose this study was examine U.S. elementary middle students’ (N = 2,430) (assessed perseverance effort) self-efficacy, their predictive relationship with achievement teacher-rated motivation competence in reading math across one year. Scalar invariance found for...

10.1037/edu0000324 article EN Journal of Educational Psychology 2018-10-25

Effective mentorship is critical to the success of early stage investigators, and has been linked enhanced mentee productivity, self-efficacy, career satisfaction. The mission National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) provide all trainees across biomedical, behavioral, clinical, social sciences with evidence-based professional development programming that emphasizes benefits challenges diversity, inclusivity, culture within mentoring relationships, more broadly research workforce. purpose...

10.1186/s12919-017-0083-8 article EN cc-by BMC Proceedings 2017-12-01

10.1016/j.cedpsych.2015.04.001 article EN Contemporary Educational Psychology 2015-04-16

The potential role of culture in the development and operation self-efficacy has been acknowledged by researchers. Clearer understanding this cultural impact will benefit from research that shows how same efficacy information is evaluated across cultures.We tested whether two sources delivered multiple social agents (i.e., vicarious experience persuasion) were weighed differently adolescents different cultures.Of 2,893 middle school students Korea (n = 416), Philippines 522), United States...

10.1111/bjep.12093 article EN British Journal of Educational Psychology 2015-09-21

Innovative evidence-based-interventions are needed to equip research mentors with skills address cultural diversity within mentoring relationships. A pilot study assessed initial outcomes of a culturally tailored effort create and disseminate novel intervention titled Culturally Aware Mentoring (CAM) for mentors.Intervention development resulted in four products: 6hr CAM training curriculum, facilitator guide, an online pre-training module, metrics evaluate the effectiveness...

10.1017/cts.2018.25 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 2018-04-01

The purpose of this study was to investigate the motivation research mentors address race/ethnicity in their mentoring relationships, using self-determination theory as a conceptual framework. Mentors from STEM fields primarily biological sciences (N = 115) were asked report level and reasons behind role race ethnicity relationships. Mentors' responses coded qualitative approach, results examined by mentors' degree motivation, previous experience with trainees different racial/ethnic groups,...

10.1037/dhe0000096 article EN other-oa Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 2018-10-22

Research mentors are reticent to address, and sometimes unaware of how, racial or ethnic differences may influence their mentees' research experiences. Increasing mentors' cultural diversity awareness (CDA) is one step toward improving mentoring effectiveness, particularly with mentees from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups in science, technology, engineering, mathematics fields. The indicators CDA for not yet known. Thus, we developed a scale assess related race/ethnicity (CDA-R/E)...

10.1187/cbe.19-06-0127 article EN CBE—Life Sciences Education 2021-03-18

Over the past 2 decades, scholars in various educational contexts have examined Bandura's theorizing about how self-efficacy develops. Bandura proposed 4 primary informational sources of self-efficacy—enactive experiences, vicarious social persuasions, and physiological affective states—each which can be supported different ways. This article first defines situates these within a broader cognitive theoretical frame. Subsequent sections highlight specific ways that educators apply insights...

10.1080/00405841.2023.2226559 article EN Theory Into Practice 2023-06-15

Expanding the scope of previous undergraduate research assessment tools,

10.1187/cbe.19-07-0146 article EN CBE—Life Sciences Education 2020-05-15
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