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Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success: A Self-Management Approach (Chap. 4 "Goal Setting") » Read Now
by Myron H. Dembo. 270 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Chapter 4 Goal Setting 67...Why are Some Students Less Successful...Performance 14...Chapter 4 -- Goal Setting -- instructs students how to write...environment, and...
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Motivation for Achievement: Possibilities for Teaching and Learning (Chap. 4 "Goals and Goal Setting") » Read Now
by M. Kay Alderman. 336 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

Understanding student and teacher motivation and developing strategies to foster motivation for students at all levels of performance are essential to effective teaching. This text is designed to help preservice and in-service teachers acquire the knowledge and skills they need to achieve these...
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Understanding student and teacher motivation and developing strategies to foster motivation for students at all levels of performance are essential to effective teaching. This text is designed to help preservice and in-service teachers acquire the knowledge and skills they need to achieve these goals. The purpose of this new edition is the same as the first-to present information from the current knowledge base in motivation that offers hope and possibilities for educators-teachers, parents, coaches, administrators-to enhance motivation for achievement. Motivation for Achievement: Possibilities for Teaching and Learning, Second Edition features: Strategy Boxes, providing guidelines and specific applications for using the various concepts presented; Exhibit Boxes, including forms that teachers might use for students, and examples of teacher beliefs and practices, and samples of student work; Reflections that pose questions to stimulate the reader's thinking about motivational issues inherent in the persons' topics, experiences, and beliefs; Points for Review, summarizing key concepts in each chapter; and Tables and Graphic Illustrations that aid the understanding of concepts. New in the Second Edition: increased emphasis throughout on educational reform, standards for achievement, and high-stakes testing as they relate to motivation; new material on attributional bias (ch. 2); recent research on achievement goal theory, especially performance goals with distinctions between performance approach and performance avoidance goals (ch. 3); phases of self-regulation; examples of classroom interventions to support self-regulation (ch. 5); task value beliefs; enhancing intrinsic motivation (ch. 8); feedback relating to use of rubrics for evaluation and motivation; and updates of the literature and research on all topics and reorganized and/or expanded material on: ability and effort framework (ch. 1); gender and help-seeking; attributional feedback (ch. 2); concepts of ability; self-worth; achievement goals and achievement anxiety (ch. 4); teacher motivation; influence of SES and ethnicity on forming expectations; student awareness of differential treatment; teacher efficacy (ch. 6); cultural identity and achievement; teacher support (ch. 7); interest and motivation; intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; evaluation (ch. 8); issues and concerns; possibilities for equality (ch. 9).
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Motivating Students to Learn Better through Own Goal-Setting, in Education » Read Now
by Lowell E. Madden. 4 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...states that goal setting for the learner...assert that students who feel...need for performance explains...after the performance also is effective...reward for the student...
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An Exploratory Study of Academic Goal Setting, Achievement Calibration and Self-Regulated Learning, in Journal of Instructional Psychology » Read Now
by Linda S. Garavalia, Margaret E. Gredler. 10 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...indicates that goal setting is related...types of performance and achievement...as well as student beliefs related...strategies for students classified...calibrators. Goal...
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Student Expectations About Affective Correlates of Academic Goal Setting, in Journal of Experimental Education » Read Now
by Frank W. Wicker, Gail Brown, Anastasia S. Hagen, Wayne Boring, James A. Wiehe. 13 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...concluded that students expectations...effects of goal setting on performance . PERFORMANCE...actual school performance, of course...factor is student...
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Undergraduate Students' Goal Orientations and Their Relationship to Perceived Parenting Styles, in College Student Journal » Read Now
by Alyssa Gonzalez, Gordon Greenwood, Jin Wenhsu. 11 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...intrinsically motivated. Students with performance goals see intelligence...designed to measure older students mastery and performance orientations. It contains...fathers...
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Goal Setting and Attainment in Graduate Student Training Groups, in College Student Journal » Read Now
by Kristin M. Perrone, Christine L. Smith, Torie E. Carlson. 6 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...learning allows students to shape...guides action. Goal setting theory emerged...and work performance. This theory...enhances performance (Locke, 1996...According to goal-...
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The Relationship between Achievement Goal Orientation and Coping Style: Traditional vs. Nontraditional College Students, in College Student Journal » Read Now
by Emily A. Morris, Peggy R. Brooks, James L. May. 6 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...nontraditional college students and performance goal orientations were...traditional college students use of performance goal orientations and...traditional college...
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Motivating Students to Learn (Chap. 4 "Goal Theory") » Read Now
by Jere Brophy. 418 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

Written specifically for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for motivating students to learn within the realities of a classroom learning community. Its focus on motivational principles rather than motivational theorists or theories leads naturally into discussions of...
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Written specifically for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for motivating students to learn within the realities of a classroom learning community. Its focus on motivational principles rather than motivational theorists or theories leads naturally into discussions of specific classroom strategies. Throughout the book the author focuses on and expertly synthesizes that portion of the motivational literature that is most relevant to teachers. Key features of this expanded new edition include: *Focus on School and Classroom Realities --The selection and treatment of motivational principles and strategies is constantly tied to the realities of schools (e.g., curriculum goals) and classrooms (e.g., student differences, classroom dynamics). *Integrates Intrinsic and Extrinsic Principles --The author employs an eclectic approach to motivation that shows how to effectively integrate the use of intrinsic and extrinsic strategies. *Covers Expectancy and Value-Related Topics --Full coverage is given to both the expectancy aspects of motivation (attributions, efficacy perceptions, expectations, confidence, etc) and to value-related topics (relevance, meaningfulness, application potential) and to their associated teacher-student dynamics. *New Chapters --Two theories that have spurred much education-related motivational research in recent years (self-determination theory and achievement-goal theory) have been given their own chapters. *Focus on Individual Differences and Problem Learners --Guidelines are provided for adapting motivational principles to group and individual student differences and for doing "repair work" with students who have become discouraged or disaffected learners. *Expanded Topical Coverage --Expanded coverage has been given to several emerging topics, including self-identity concepts, cross-cultural comparisons, situational interest, stereotype threat, and the rediscovery of John Dewey's motivational ideas. *Improved Pedagogy --Chapter and section introductions and summaries provide an unusual degree of continuity across the book, and its second person writing style is more reader friendly than most textbooks. New to this edition are reflection questions at the end of each chapter. This book is appropriate for any course in the undergraduate or graduate teacher education curriculum that is devoted wholly or partly to the study of student motivation.
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An Exploratory Study of Academic Goal Setting, Achievement Calibration and Self-Regulated Learning, in Journal of Instructional Psychology » Read Now
by Linda S. Garavalia, Margaret E. Gredler. 4 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Promoting Self-Determination in Early Elementary School: Teaching Self-Regulated Problem-Solving and Goal-Setting Skills, in Remedial and Special Education » Read Now
by Susan B. Palmer, Michael L. Wehmeyer. 12 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...and the goal setting and attainment...in life if students with disabilities...self-evaluate their performance toward that...Instruction for student goal setting is...