Intended for upper-level undergraduate courses in Motivation; also for graduate Education courses in Motivation/ Educational Psychology/Learning and Development, and Psychology courses in Motivation, Cognition, and Learning. Informing students about major motivational theories and related research, this thought-provoking text includes an overview of metatheoretical perspectives, expectancy and efficacy beliefs, attribution theory, social cognitive theory, goal theory, intrinsic motivation, values and affect, and social-cultural influences such as schools, classrooms, peers and families. Offering intensive conceptual details of different theories, it describes and applies the most recent advances in motivation theory and research to the classroom context.
a must read a must read for all educators and educational professionals. this book contains the studies that changes in the educational system are based on. read them for yourself and make better educated decisions about our children.
An excellent book about motivation in education An excellent book about motivation in education. It was assigned by my professor for a graduate level class (Ph.D. bound). The book was good; I learned a lot.
Some highlighting = mostly highlighted While the content of the book is fine it is very hard to read over the all of the highlighting. There is also writing in the book from several different people, some in a different language, that is over some of the text. As far a shipping goes, it came fast and the packaging was good enough that the book was still in good condition considering the delivery lady threw it in a pile of snow.