Avoiding Seeking Help in the Classroom: Who and Why?

By Allison M. Ryan, P. Pintrich, C. Midgley. 2001

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Subfields: Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Help seeking, self-efficacy, and writing performance among college students (2011, positive): “…research has found that adaptive help seeking is an active strategy that serves as an aid to achieving academic success in the face of difficult or challenging tasks (e.g., Karabenick, 1998; Karebenick & Newman, 2006; Ryan et al., 2001; Webb, Ing, Kersting, & Nemer, 2006; Zimmerman & Schunk, 2001).”
Achievement goals in educational contexts: A social psychology perspective (2012, neutral): “It also appears more frequently in mastery rather than performance conditions (Butler & Neuman, 1995; Ryan et al., 2001).”
IntroAssist: A Tool to Support Writing Introductory Help Requests (2018, background): “H3 is based on related work describing how believing that one has needed skills makes one more likely to perform the task itself [6], especially in the context of help seeking [53,54].”
The influence of achievement goals and social goals on help-seeking from peers in an academic context (2011, background): “Help-seeking combines aspects of academic and social engagement, as it is both a learning strategy and a form of social interaction (Nelson-Le-Gall, 1981; Newman, 1990, 2006; Ryan & Pintrich, 1997; Ryan et al., 2001).”
Achievement Goals in Social Interactions: Learning with Mastery vs. Performance Goals (2007, background): “Help seeking also appears more frequently and is more efficient in mastery contexts (Butler & Neuman, 1995; Ryan, Pintrich, & Midgley, 2001 ).”
Brief Research Report: Sense of Belonging and Academic Help-Seeking as Self-Regulated Learning (2019, methodology): “As such, using appropriate help-seeking strategies has been deemed a critical aspect of students’ self-regulation of their learning (Newman, 2000; Ryan et al., 2001).”
Encouraging Self-Regulated Learning in the Classroom: A Review of the Literature (2011, background): “not only seek advice from others, but they do so with the goal of making themselves more autonomous (Ryan et al., 2001).”