EDPSY 528
Achievement Motivation
in Education
Winter 2009
Wednedays 4:30-6:50pm, Miller Hall 320
EDPSY 528 Achievement Motivationin EducationWinter 2009 Wednedays 4:30-6:50pm, Miller Hall 320 |
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| Instructor: Susan B. Nolen Office: 322C Miller Hall Phone: 206-616-6378 Email: sunolen@u.washington.edu Course web page: http://faculty.washington.edu/sunolen/528/528_syl09.html Student Information Form Please download, fill out, and email the student information form to me before the first day of class. This information wil help me in planning instruction. In this course you will begin to develop a familiarity with achievement motivation research, especially as it relates to motivation to learn in and out of school. This development will include growth in your ability to critically analyze the research literature, and to take and support positions on issues of motivation, both orally and in writing. You will select a topic or problem of motivation to explore further in individual term projects. This course should help prepare students to think about motivation issues, understand published research on motivation, and continue to study motivation in educational settings. We will focus on the meaning of these theories for motivation in educational settings, and we will draw on our experiences with children and adults to explore and critique the theories. Things you learn in this class will help you think how to support student motivation, but this is not primarily a how-to course. We will study major current approaches to research on achievement motivation and contrast their perspectives, predictions, and supporting and disconfirming evidence. We will collaboratively select an additional topic in motivation for the last week of class. The final class meeting will be devoted to an informal discussion of your term projects. Projects will provide an opportunity for you to expand on what you learn in the course by exploring a motivation question of particular interest to you. Former students have used their projects for 528 to jump-start First-Year Projects for Learning Sciences, Research & Inquiry projects, theses and dissertations. Syllabus |
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