Category: AERA

Motivation SIG dinner social event at Rio Rio Cantina

Join us for the Motivation SIG dinner social event at Rio Rio Cantina (421 E Commerce St., http://riorioriverwalk.com/ ). Cost is $35.00. This annual SIG light dinner and social is a great way for junior and senior researchers to talk informally with each other. To register, visit the AERA registration portal (same place you registered)…

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AERA 2017 Annual Meeting-Graduate Student News

Sign up to take part in the Lunch with a Motivation Researcher Program! Every year at AERA, the SIG gives graduate students an opportunity to have lunch with an experienced motivation researcher. This year, we have a great line-up of researchers who will host lunches: Bernard Weiner, Judith Harackiewicz, Reinhard Pekrun, Mimi Bong, Julie Turner,…

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Call for Applications – AERA-SRCD Early Career Fellowship in Early Childhood Education and Development

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) are pleased to announce a joint initiative, the AERA-SRCD Early Career Fellowship in Early Childhood Education and Development. This fellowship provides a collaborative opportunity for early career scholars to participate in a research network focused on early childhood education and…

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AERA Motivation SIG Business Meeting

A student recently asked whether she should even attend the SIG’s business meeting (which sounded boring). Yes! The business meeting (Sunday, April 30, 6:15-8:00, light refreshments included), enables us to gather together as motivation researchers and discuss ways to improve our special interest group. It’s also a time for us to recognize graduate students who are…

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AERA 2017 Symposium on Motivation Theory

Allan Wigfield University of Maryland-College Park Discussant Alison C. Koenka Ohio State University Chair Researchers have learned much about motivation and its relations to important achievement and broader life outcomes. Over the last 50 years there have been several major theoretical models of motivation guiding much of this research; these models continue to be the…

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