BackHome
Refresh: OffView Personal Schedule
Session Summary

Understanding and Measuring Achievement Motivation in Diverse Contexts Using Practical Measures: Expectancies, Values, and Costs

Tue, April 17, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Floor: Fifth Floor, Room 5.08

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The expectancy-value theory of motivation is widespread because it integrates varying motivational theories and it powerfully explains behavior. Recent research differentiates the theory’s value aspect given evidence that cost is a distinct motivational component. In this symposium, researchers will present papers on measuring expectancy-value-cost in diverse populations, using varying methodologies, and that extend findings from prior single-sample studies, including in a sample of urban, low-income African American 3rd-5th graders, a cross-cultural comparison of value and cost among Chinese, South Korean, and German adolescents, a mixed-methods examination of U.S. college students’ open-ended responses to a question about what motivated them during a short, 4-week course, and a U.S. and Canadian college student study of the multiple dimensions of cost.

Sub Unit

Chair

Discussant

Papers