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12.
Expectations for Success - Motivation and Learning
Web-based
readings
Lumsden, L. (1994, June). Student motivation to learn. ERIC
Digest, (92) EDO-EA-94-7.
http://eric.uoregon.edu/pdf/digests/digest092.pdf
This reader-friendly article summarizes research on motivation.
Snowman, J. & Biehler, R. (1997). Motivation: excerpts from chapter
11 of Psychology applied to teaching, Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
http://college.hmco.com/education/pbl/tc/motivate.html
This is an indexed series of sections from a textbook that
defines motivation, summarizes viewpoints about it, and offers
classroom suggestions.
Related
links
Patterns of Adaptive Learning
www.umich.edu/~pals/
This Web site, developed by scholars at the University of Michigan,
includes reports and publications about research in adolescent development
and motivation. Included are links to other resources related to
motivation research.
Information on Self-Efficacy: A community of scholars
www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/effpage.html
This is a Web site on "self-efficacy" (the belief
in one's abilities to handle a situation), created by researchers
at Emory University. The site has links to definitions, examples,
and research.
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