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Dr. Pagani is a full professor at the School of Psychoeducation and a researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center of the University of Montreal. Her efforts as a professor of psychoeducation and a researcher at the Group for Research on School Environments (GRES) aim to influence social and health policies for children. To this end, her greatest concern is school readiness and school perseverance among young people. She is especially captivated by the factors influencing school engagement among elementary and secondary students.

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Motivation and Its Relationship with Academic Success and Adaptation

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Frédéric Guay has been Full Professor at Université Laval since 1998. In 2014, he was elected President of Division 5 (Educational, Instructional, and School Psychology) of the International Association for Applied Psychology, highlighting his leadership in international research networks. He holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in School Motivation, Perseverance, and Success and has made transformative contributions to the field of education. His impact was further acknowledged in 2016 when he received the prestigious Whitworth Committee nomination for excellence in educational research in Canada. Beyond his research, Dr. Guay developed an innovative, evidence-based professional development program that empowers teachers to inspire and sustain student motivation.

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A Structural Process Model of Child Motivation, Curiosity, Persistence, and Success

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Dr. Gordeeva is a professor in the Department of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and a Leading Researcher in the International Laboratory of Positive Psychology and Motivation, at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia. As a renowned Russian psychologist, she has developed expert motivation, curiosity, persistence, and success. She developed a structural process model of motivation in 2007, which applies to school and work motivation. She is the author of over 100 papers in the field of motivation of school children. Dr. Gordeeva leads many research projects sponsored by the Russian Science Foundation, dedicated to academic motivation, the conditions for its development, and the role of teachers and parents in maintaining the desire to learn, be persistent, and complete homework. In 2021, she received the Research Excellence Award Russia from Elsevier as the most-cited Russian psychologist. Dr. Gordeeva has championed the retraining of teachers in many regions of Russia, encouraging motivating styles of interaction with students since 2017. This teacher training program, based on the self-determination theory of motivation, is funded by the Charitable Foundation Contribution to the Future project. She is the author of the most popular teaching textbook in Russia on supporting and developing school children's motivation in education, published in 2022.