Tag: Motivation
The Motivation Assessment Scale (MAS) Administration Guide (Mas Administration Guide) (Mas Administration Guide/With Score Sheets)
To Understand and Effectively Treat Challenging Behavior
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Tested and Validated at home, school and work; with children, juveniles, young adults, adults
Develop Solutions that are practical, individualized, non-aversive, functionally related to the causes of behavior and lead to positive behavioral support
Classroom Assessment: Principles and Practice that Enhance Student Learning and Motivation plus MyLab Education with Enhanced Pearson eText — Access … New in Ed Psych / Tests & Measurements)
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A comprehensive, nontechnical, engaging, look at how assessment is used to improve student learning and motivation.
Drawing on recent research and new directions in the field, this concise, engaging book shows teachers how to use classroom assessment effectively for improving student learning and motivation. Key strategies and techniques are demonstrated through practical, realistic examples, suggestions, and case studies. The new edition emphasizes formative assessment and includes more in-depth coverage of self-assessment, the impact of standards-based accountability testing, 21st century knowledge, dispositions and skills, technology-enhanced items, and assessment of culturally diverse students. Each chapter provides aids to help readers learn and practice the skills of that chapter, including new Teacher Corners features illustrating actual teachers’ thinking about classroom assessment, introductory case studies, chapter concept maps, new figures, suggestions for action research, self-instructional review exercises, and links to digital resources.
Personalize learning with MyLab Education
Designed to bring learners more directly into the world of K-12 classrooms and to help them see the real and powerful impact of the assessment concepts covered in this book, MyLab Education provides practice using classroom assessment concepts in teaching situations, helps students and instructors see how well students understand the content, and helps students more deeply process assessment concepts and strategies and also better understand how to use those concepts as a teacher. The online resources in this MyLab include:
Video Examples. Throughout the eText, embedded videos provide illustrations of sound assessment practices in action. Self-Check Assessments. Throughout the chapters, students will find self-check quizzes that help assess how well students have mastered chapter learning outcomes. The quizzes consist of self-grading multiple choice items that provide rationales, both for questions answered correctly and for questions answered incorrectly. Application Exercises. These scaffolded exercises, tied to learning outcomes, challenge learners to reflect on assessment and to apply what they have learned to real classroom assessment work. MyLab Education includes the Pearson eText version of the book.
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Human Motivation
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The 400 most inspirational QUOTES: Your daily dose of motivation
Inside are 400 of the greatest motivational quotes spoken by politicians, public speakers, activists, business people, and historical figures.
As we go through our individual journey toward success and lasting happiness, we can sometimes get lost and unmotivated to power through, especially during trying times. From time to time we all need that “push” — that regular dosage of motivation to never let up or give up.
To this end, we must never underestimate the power of words to continually stir our passion and motivation. Receiving words of wisdom and enlightenment from such pioneers can motivate us to not just become better leaders, workers, and entrepreneurs but also to become better human beings in general.
This book, therefore, is all about harnessing the unlimited potential of words and using them to improve our quality of life.
Breaking Ground on Your Memoir: Craft, Inspiration, and Motivation for Memoir Writers
In Breaking Ground on Your Memoir, Linda Joy Myers (President of the National Association of Memoir Writers) and Brooke Warner (Publisher of She Writes Press) present from the ground up―from basic to advanced―the craft and skills memoirists can draw upon to write a powerful and moving story, as well as inspiration to write, finish, and polish their own story.
Full of rich insights and practical advice and strategies, Breaking Ground on Your Memoir offers all the tools writers need to write a powerful, publishable memoir.
In this book you will discover:
• how to get focused on what your memoir is about―your themes.
• how to build the structure of your story.
• techniques to make your memoir come alive.
• the secrets of craft: how to write a great scene, colorful and memorable descriptions, narration, and flashback.
• how to connect with your reader using through-threads and takeaway so they’ll keep turning the pages, and learn something about their own lives by reading your book.
Visit the authors online at WriteYourMemoirInSixMonths.com.
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- Breaking Ground on Your Memoir Craft Inspiration and Motivation for Memoir Writers
Handbook of Competence and Motivation, Second Edition: Theory and Application
Now completely revised (over 90% new), this handbook established the concept of competence as an organizing framework for the field of achievement motivation. With an increased focus on connecting theory to application, the second edition incorporates diverse perspectives on why and how individuals are motivated to work toward competence in school, work, sports, and other settings. Leading authorities present cutting-edge findings on the psychological, sociocultural, and biological processes that shape competence motivation across development, analyzing the role of intelligence, self-regulated learning, emotions, creativity, gender and racial stereotypes, self-perceptions, achievement values, parenting practices, teacher behaviors, workplace environments, and many other factors. As a special bonus, purchasers of the second edition can download a supplemental e-book featuring several notable, highly cited chapters from the first edition.
New to This Edition
*Most chapters are new, reflecting over a decade of theoretical and methodological developments.
*Each chapter now has an applied as well as conceptual focus, showcasing advances in intervention research.
*Additional topics: self-regulation in early childhood, self-determination theory, challenge and threat appraisals, performance incentives, achievement emotions, job burnout, gene-environment interactions, class-based models of competence, and the impact of social group membership.
*Supplemental e-book featuring selected chapters from the prior edition.
Motivation: The Manager’s Key to Closing the Commitment Gap
This book shows managers how to identify opportunities for increasing productivity by enhancing commitment and provides tools for building a high-performing team.
• Clearly identifies interpersonal dynamics as the major factor for reducing the “commitment gap” and increasing job satisfaction and productivity
• Utilizes “real life” scenarios to demonstrate how the supplied blueprints and strategies enable managers to internalize and experiment to impact their own motivational issues
23 Shockingly Simple Sales Ideas: For Sellers, Start-ups, and Small Businesses Make Money, Boost Motivation, Improve Sales Training, and Make Sales Easy and Fun Again
Every week, Chris Lytle, best-selling author of The Accidental Salesperson and The Accidental Sales Manager, records succinct, powerful sales ideas for his popular website, Instant Sales Training. These effective, easily implemented ideas form the basis for 23 Shockingly Simple Sales Ideas.
Why shocking? Because once you read Lytle’s tips you realize they’re not only what you need to up your sales game—they’re also so simple you won’t believe you didn’t think of them yourself. It takes a special kind of genius to see the simplest solutions, and Lytle possesses that elusive talent.
Discover the best advice you’ll ever get as a salesperson, all in small, bite-sized nuggets of information you’ll absorb with ease. With Lytle as your guide, you’ll discover how to
build instant rapport with prospects; write effective, actionable e-mails; open your presentations with “the phrase that pays”; win back lost customers; spot the difference between real prospects and information seekers; and much more!
Most salespeople don’t choose sales as a career—they stumble into the field accidently, without any formal training. With Lytle’s help, you’ll gain access to the skills you need to succeed, time and time again.