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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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Motivation in Education Research Post-Doc at Carnegie Mellon University, PA

We are looking for a postdoc with expertise in research in motivation in education and an affinity for studying motivation and self-regulated learning in the context of technology-enhanced learning. The postdoc will work on a project led by Dr. Ken Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Vincent Aleven, Carnegie Mellon, and Dr. Judith Harackiewicz, University of Wisconsin, Madison.…

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Research Request for Meta-Analysis on Pre-Post, Quasi- and Experimental Research on Interest/Value

Hello Motivation SIG Colleagues, We are conducting a meta-analysis of pre-post, quasi-experimental and experimental research comparing the effects of cooperation, competition and individualistic efforts on interest/value. Although we have already conducted a rigorous search of this literature, unpublished studies can be especially difficult to retrieve. We are therefore interested in receiving dissertations, conference presentations, or…

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Research Request for Graduate Student Writers’ Daily Writing Experiences

Dear graduate student writer, You are invited to participate in a research study seeking to better understand graduate student writers’ daily writing-related emotional experiences and writing behaviors over time. You are being invited to participate because you are currently a graduate student in a writing-intensive discipline. Participation in the study is completely optional and will…

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Educational and Data Science, University of Reading, UK

Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Educational and Data Science Place: School of Psychology and Clinical Language Science, University of Reading, UKPI: Kou Murayama (http://koumurayama.com) Term: Full-time, 2.5 years Application website: https://jobs.reading.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=4496 We are seeking a postdoctoral research fellow to undertake research in the Motivation Science Lab (PI: Kou Murayama; http://koumurayama.com) at the University of Reading…

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