Tag Archives: motivation

The Big Question:

On Adolescent Creativity in Online Learning The final assignment for EDU800 was an “elevator pitch”—an exercise in developing the ability to clearly and succinctly communicate our current interests at any given time. Wow. It was hard—not the writing of it; the delivering of it. We were asked to create and post a two-minute video outliningContinue reading “The Big Question:”

The Adolescent Community of Engagement: A Framework for Research on Adolescent Online Learning

Image: Joy Reeves – The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. ANNOTATION: Borup, J., West R., Graham C. and Davies, R. (2014) The Adolescent Community of Engagement: A Framework for Research on Adolescent Online Learning. Journal of Technology and Teacher Engagement 22(1), 107-129. Enrollments in K-12 online learning continue toContinue reading “The Adolescent Community of Engagement: A Framework for Research on Adolescent Online Learning”

Autonomy support, personality, and mindset in predicting academic performance among early adolescents: The mediating role of self-determined motivation.

CITATION: Mammadov, S., & Tozoglu, D. (2023). Autonomy support, personality, and mindset in predicting academic performance among early adolescents: The mediating role of self-determined motivation. Psychology in the Schools, 60, 3754–3769. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22966 This paper supports a tenet that is highly unsurprising: Young adolescents—that is, middle school students—who are very conscientious and who have high levels of autonomy support from teachers and parentsContinue reading “Autonomy support, personality, and mindset in predicting academic performance among early adolescents: The mediating role of self-determined motivation.”

What is engagement and is it different than motivation?

FOCUSED LITERATURE REVIEW #6: “The Relationship Between Student Motivation and Class Engagement Levels” Nayır, F. (2017). The Relationship between Student Motivation and Class Engagement Levels. Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 17 (71), 59-78. This post is a little different than previous. EDU 811 “Motivation in Online and Blended Learning” requires weekly-ish deep reads of oneContinue reading “What is engagement and is it different than motivation?”