This post-doc position provides a unique opportunity for an early/mid-career researcher to jump-start their academic career. The successful applicant will work closely and co-author articles in leading journals with Professors Jacqueline Eccles, Reinhard Pekrun, and Herb Marsh who are among the world’s leading researchers in educational psychology and motivation (with a combined Google Scholar H-Index…
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The Network Gender & STEM Conference 2020 will be held Thursday, July 30, 2020 – Saturday, August, 1, 2020 at the University of Sydney – Camperdown Campus. The 2020 Network conference represents a partnership with the STEM Teacher Enrichment Academy to bring together researchers, educators, policymakers, industry representatives and the public to interrogate person-in-context influences…
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Hello Motivation SIG members, Along with Drs. Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia and Harris Cooper, I am currently updating a research synthesis that examines the impact of performance feedback on academic motivation and performance across elementary and secondary school. In order to do so, I am searching for all studies conducted within a K-12 classroom environment that compare…
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You are invited to submit proposals for manuscripts to share your scholarship in the Gifted Child Quarterly. Gifted Child Quarterly (GCQ) is planning a special issue on underachievement and achievement motivation as it related to gifted students or giftedness, scheduled to be published in April 2020, and is currently soliciting proposals for manuscripts. We are…
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Authored by Kevin Pugh, University of Northern Colorado. Hogwarts – the school of witchcraft and wizardry in the Harry Potter books – has its share of pedagogical problems. Professor Binns could use a dose of Interest Theory, Hagrid should attend a school safety seminar, and Snape really needs to read The Challenge to Care in…
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Hello Colleagues, Our research group is conducting secondary data analysis related to achievement goal measures. Specifically, we are analyzing the Achievement Goal Questionnaire-Revised (AGQ-R), and the achievement goals subscales of the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS). If you have collected data using either of these instruments, please consider contributing your data! Specifically, the inclusion…
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You are invited to submit a proposal to share your scholarship in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment: Intersecting New Needs and New Approaches, a volume in The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education series. The lives of middle school students are dynamic, and their needs and desires are always evolving. They experience more complicated…
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You are invited to submit a proposal to share your scholarship at the Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA) 49th Annual Conference. NERA is an organization whose mission is to encourage and promote quality educational research and to create a venue for experienced and new researchers. NERA members come from all areas of education (e.g., academics,…
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We’re excited to announce our newly elected SIG officers for the 2018-2020 term: Erika Patall (chair), Jennifer Schmidt (Program Chair), and Carlton Fong (Treasurer/Secretary). We want to give a special thanks to the outgoing leadership team for their amazing service. Thank you, Ellen Usher, Hadley Solomon, and Marcus Johnson! 2018-2020 Officers (left to right): Carlton…
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You are invited to submit a proposal to share your scholarship at the 2018 Career and Technical Education (CTE) Research and Professional Development Conference. Discussion about CTE from a number of perspectives, such as K-12 curriculum, instructional strategies, school improvement, career pathways, career education and counseling, postsecondary education, adult education, special education transition, work based learning,…
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