We hope you’re looking forward to AERA in San Antonio. As we finalize our program, please notify Hadley Solomon ([email protected]) if you have an accepted paper/poster and will not be attending AERA to present. We want to be sure we have all slots filled. Also, mark your calendars for our annual SIG dinner social on Sunday,…
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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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Just announced: The AERA Division C – Invited Senior Panel for the San Antonio meeting in 2017. The session is entitled: “Tensions in Division C: Shifting between building individual agency and promoting systemic change.” Abstract As learning and instruction researchers we esteem the study of individual attributes that promote academic and social health for children…
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Mark your calendars for our annual SIG dinner social! Sunday, April 30 at 8 p.m. Rio Rio Cantina 421 E Commerce St, San Antonio, TX We’ll post dinner sign-up details to our web site and circulate in the February news items.
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SIG Graduate Students- Is there a motivation researcher you have always wanted to meet, or a topic you want to know more about from the experts? We are soliciting nominations for the annual Lunch with a Motivation Researcher Program to be held at AERA. Each year, the SIG Graduate Student Committee coordinates lunches between faculty…
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We are excited to share with you a draft version of our 2017 AERA MotSIG program. Among the exciting presentations will be an invited talk by Dr. Judy Harackiewicz and a theory-specific symposium entitled, “Motivation Theory Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Reflections of Founders and Descendants.” Please peruse all topics and presenters on the program. Presentation…
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The Society for the Study of Motivation will celebrate its 10th Anniversary Meeting on May 25 in Boston. As usual, the annual conference will take place in conjunction with (i.e., right before) the APS conference. The Anniversary Meeting will feature a keynote address by Geoffrey Cohen (Professor of Psychology and James T. March Professor in…
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Hadley Solomon (Motivation SIG Program Chair) has worked hard to develop a strong and diverse program on current motivation research for the AERA conference in San Antonio in 2017. AERA will release final decisions on all proposals in early November. Mark your calendars for our annual SIG dinner social on Sunday, April 30, at…
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The 17th biennial conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) will be held in Tampere, Finland, August 29-September 2, 2017. The guidelines for abstract submissions (due October 27, 2016) are available here: http://earli.org/resources/EARLI2017/EARLI2017_Submission_Guidelines.pdf. Conference web site: http://www.earli2017.org/.
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Congratulations to all SIG members who presented at last month’s ICM meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece. You can check out the program here: http://www.psy.auth.gr/sites/default/files/ICM2016_Conference%20Programme.pdf. Here are some pictures of your favorite motivation researchers: https://www.facebook.com/icm2016thessaloniki/photos?ref=page_internal
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