TOPIC: Motivation

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Center Developed Resources and Tools

Article/Publications

• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (1999). Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account for Motivational and Developmental Differences. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15 (4), 255-276.
• The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports in the Classroom and Schoolwide

Continuing Education Modules

• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom Focused Enabling

Information Sheets

• About School Engagement and Re-Engagement

Introductory Packets

• Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities

Newsletters

• Concerns = Opportunities: Addressing Student Disengagement, Acting Out, and Dropouts by Moving in New Directions
• Enabling Learning in the Classroom: A Primary Mental Health Concern (Spring, '98)
• Re-engaging Students in Learning at School. (Winter, '02)

Practice Notes

• About Motivation

Quick Training Aids

• Re-engaging Students in Learning

Technical Aid Packets

• Guiding Parents in Helping Children

Training Tutorials

• Classroom Changes to Enhance and Re-engage Students in Learning

• Academic Counseling: Enhancing Motivation to Achieve
• Advancing Knowledge and Training on Self-Determination
• Brief intervention and motivational interviewing with children, adolescents, and their parents in pediatric health care settings: A review
• "The Early College High School Initiative"
• Engaging Schools Fostering High School Students' Motivation to Learn. National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine (2004)
• Enhancing Student Connectedness to Schools: an issue brief from the School Mental Health Analysis and Action
• ERIC Digest: Student Motivation to Learn
• ERIC Digest: Motivation and Middle School Students
• How Can Teachers Develop Students' Motivation -- and Success?
• Increasing Student Engagement and Motivation
• Instructional Models, Strategies, Methods, and Skills
• Intrinsic Motivation
• Motivation for Learning: Parents Can Help
• Motivational Beliefs, Values, and Goals
• Motivating Students
• School Connectedness and Meaningful Student Participation
• Self-Determination for People with Psychiatric Disabilities
• Self-Determination Theory: An Approach to Human Motivation and Personality
• Student Engagement
• Student Motivation, School Culture, and Academic Achievement What School Leaders Can Do
• Using Student Engagement of Improve Adolescent Literacy
• When Students Do Not Feel Motivated for Literacy Learning: How a Responsive Classroom Culture Helps

• National Center for School Engagement
• TrackStar: Motivation in the Classroom
• WAVE for Teens

• "The concept of intrinsic motivation: Implications for practice and research with the learning disabled." Learning Disability Quarterly, 1, 43-54. By H.S. Adelman (1978).
• "Enhancing motivation for overcoming learning and behavior problems." Journal of Learning Disabilities, 16, 384-392. By H.S. Adelman and L. Taylor (1983b).
• Increasing Student Motivation. By M.A. Theobald (2005). Corwin Press.
• "Intrinsic motivation and school misbehavior: Some intervention implications." Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23, 541-550. By H.S. Adelman and L. Taylor (1990).
• Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior (Perspectives in Social Psychology. E.L. Deci (1985). Plenum Pub. Corp.
• Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Goal-Contents in Self-Determination Theory: Another Look at the Quality of Academic Motivation. Vansteenkiste, M., Lens, W., & Deci, E.L. (2006). Educational Psychologist, 41, 19-31.
• Legislating Competence: The Motivational Impact of High Stakes Testing as an Educational Reform. By Ryan, R.M. & Brown, K.W. (2005). In C. Dweck & A.E. Elliot (Eds.), Handbook of Competence(pp. 354-374). New York: Guilford Press.
• Motivation to Learn: From Theory to Practice. By D. Stipek (1997). Allyn & Bacon.
• On Understanding Intervention in Psychology and Education. By H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1994). Praeger Pub Text.
• Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes. By A. Kohn (1999). Allyn & Bacon.
• Self-Determination Theory: A Dialectical Framework For Understanding Socio-Cultural Influences on Student Motivation. Reeve, J., Deci, E.L., & Ryan, R.M. (2004). In D.M. McInerney & S. Van Etten (Eds.), Big Theories Revisited(pp.31-60). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Press.
• The Concept of Competence: A Starting Place for Understanding Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determined Extrinsic Motivation. Deci, E.L., & Moller, A.C. (2005). In A.J. Elliot & C.J. Dweck (Eds.), Handbook of Competence and Motivation (pp. 579-597). New York: Guilford Press.
• Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation. By E. Deci & R. Flaste (1996). Penguin USA.
• Understanding and Promoting Autonomous Self-Regulation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective. Reeve, J., Ryan, R.M., Deci, E.L., & Jang, H. (2007). In D. Schunk & B. Zimmerman (Eds.), Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning: Theory, Research, and Application(pp. 223-244). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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