Student Motivation, Cognition, and Learning

by Pintrich; Paul R.

• ISBN13: 9780805813760
• ISBN10: 0805813764
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-09-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Designed to present some of the current research on student motivation, cognition, and learning, this book serves as a festschrift for Wilbert J. McKeachie who has been a leading figure in college teaching and learning. The contributions to this volume were written by former students, colleagues and friends. A common focus on a general or social cognitive view of learning is shared throughout the volume, but there are significant differences in the perspectives the researchers bring to bear on the issues. They provide an excellent cross-section of current thinking and research on general cognitive topics such as students' knowledge structures, cognitive and self-regulated learning strategies, as well as reasoning, problem solving, and critical thinking. Social cognitive and motivational topics are also well represented, including self-worth theory and expectancy-value models. More importantly, an explicit attempt is made to link cognitive and motivational constructs theoretically and empirically. This area of research is one of the most important and promising areas of future research in educational psychology. Finally, most of the chapters address instructional implications, but several explicitly discuss instructional issues related to the improvement of college students' motivation and cognition.

Table of Contents

Preface in Celebration of a Mentor, Colleague, and Friend	p. ix
The Automaticity of Similarity-Based Reasoning	p. 1
Problem Solving, Transfer, and Thinking	p. 27
Science Students' Learning: Ethnographic Studies in Three Disciplines	p. 79
Self-Regulated Learning in College Students: Knowledge, Strategies, and Motivation	p. 113
Goals as the Transactive Point Between Motivation and Cognition	p. 135
Self-Worth and College Achievement: Motivational and Personality Correlates	p. 157
Seeking Academic Assistance as a Strategic Learning Resource	p. 189
Situated Motivation	p. 213
Investigating Self-Regulatory Processes and Perceptions of Self-Efficacy in Writing by College Students	p. 239
Strategic Learning/Strategic Teaching: Flip Sides of a Coin	p. 257
Teaching Dialogically: Its Relationship to Critical Thinking in College Students	p. 275
Competition, Achievement, and Gender: a Stress Theoretical Analysis	p. 311
Research on College Student Learning and Motivation: Will It Affect College Instruction?	p. 331
Concluding Remarks	p. 343
Curriculum Vita	p. 359
Author Index	p. 391
Subject Index	p. 401
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