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10th International SELF Conference, Quebec City June 2020

The conference is part of a continuing series of meetings that have gained greater visibility in the field of SELF research. The 2020 conference will bring together a wide array of speakers from all around the world addressing diverse areas such as goals, identity, motivation, self-concept, self-regulation and many more. This conference is of interest…

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Research Request: Meta-Analysis on Motivation in Education

Greetings, My colleagues are doing a grey literature search for a meta-analysis on outcomes of motivation in education. Please feel free to contact them if you want to help and have either unpublished data or data published in theses/conference proceedings/other non-journal outputs that used one of the following scales in an educational setting: SRQ/PLOC/ASRQ (Ryan…

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Research Request for Teachers’ Personal Achievement Goals for Teaching

Dear Colleagues We are working on a meta-analytic and narrative review of research on teachers’ personal achievement goals for teaching.  If anyone has conducted relevant but as yet unpublished studies we would be very grateful if you would be willing to share them with us.  These might include conference presentations, manuscripts under review, and so…

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Psychology in Schools

The National Center for Children in Poverty published a study that reported one in five children in the U.S. have a diagnosable mental disorder, and of those in need of mental health services, only 20-25% received help. Many children do not receive aid simply there are not enough school psychologists available to alleviate the need.  Our team at Psychology.org strives…

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Call for Chapter Proposals: Teaching Learning for Effective Instruction

In an age where the quality of teacher education programs has never been more important, educators need a fundamental understanding of the principles of human learning, motivation, and development.  Each volume in this series will draw upon the latest research to help college instructors select and model essential principles of learning, motivation, assessment, and development…

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Self-Affirmation Mechanisms and Theory Conference Accepting Submissions

Hi all — I wanted to send out an announcement about the Self-Affirmation Mechanisms and Theory Conference that we are hosting here in Pittsburgh on Friday, July 26th and Saturday, July 27th. The deadline for submission is tomorrow, Friday May 10, so there’s still time to apply to present your research! Best of all, registration is $0 — that’s right, free.…

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NERA Accepting Conference Proposals

Dear Fellow Motivation SIG Members, Please consider submitting a proposal to the Northeastern Educational Research Association’s (NERA) Annual Conference.  The conference is in Trumbull, Connecticut on October 16-18 and proposals will be accepted from May 1st through June 2nd.  NERA is one of AERA’s affiliate organizations and members of the Motivation SIG might find it’s a…

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2019 Paul R. Pintrich Memorial Award winner is Cora Parrisius, University of Tübingen

Congratulations, Cora, for winning the Paul Pintrich Award! You can download the poster, Perceived Relevance in the Classroom: The Mediated Relation between Teachers’ and Students’ Mathematics Utility Value presented by Cora Parrisius, Hanna Gaspard, Heide Piesch, Eike Willie, Benjamin Nagengast, & Ulrich Trautwein at the 2019 AERA Motivation in Education SIG below.

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Theorizing and Analyzing Productive Disciplinary Engagement as a Collaborative Phenomenon

Toni Kempler Rogat (co-organizer), Purdue University, ([email protected]) Britte Haugan Cheng (co-organizer), Menlo Educational Research, ([email protected]) Come spend the day doing interactive analysis of CSCL collaboration data! The goal of this full-day CSCL workshop is to become familiar with and then apply a rubric for evaluating the quality of group-level engagement observed during collaborative activity. We…

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