This latter finding makes sense because students in the more advanced courses probably attained high levels of math success during their academic careers and thus developed high standards for success over time. Collectively, however, these findings suggest that simply attending advanced math classes does not necessarily prompt or induce seventh-grade students to use more adaptive regulatory skills. In order to understand more fully the self-regulation and motivation differences for the math course type and grade level, we investigated the specific pattern of achievement group differences in self-regulation and motivation separately for grade and course type.